The Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) promotes and facilitates access to sport and fitness equipment for people with disabilities, and facilitataes training for fitness centre staff. Research conducted by the Gary Jelen Sports Foundation during 1998 identified the following:
a lack of provision in fitness facilities for disabled people;
a lack of disability awareness among facility staff providing a barrier to participation;
a lack of knowledge amongst disabled people of the benefits of exercise.
IFI's aim is to ensure that disabled people can access inclusive fitness equipment in a targeted number of local authority facilities, thereby significantly increasing opportunities for sports specific conditioning and training and improving general levels of health and fitness.




 

The Estate Office, Newton Chambers Road
Thorncliffe Park, Chapeltown
Sheffield

S35 2PH
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www.inclusivefitness.org 

The service works with local authority fitness facilities across England to enable them to become inclusive, catering for the needs of both disabled and non disabled people 

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All fitness centres accredited through the Inclusive Fitness Initiative are accessible to disabled people  

Information on the Inclusive Fitness Initiative can be requested in audio, large print and braille format 

Cost varies from centre to centre