This year, IMAS have offered placements to medical students from the University of Sheffield. Max Landsborough reports on what he has learned, and how the placement might influence he practises medicine in the future… On my placement with International Mixed...
At IMAS, we want to make sport inclusive for everybody who faces barriers to participation. With World Diabetes Day coming up, IMAS team member Imogen spoke to two IMAS Trainers and Bumble Bees Rugby Club members – Cam and Paul – about how diabetes affects...
Written collaboratively by the IMAS facilitators Here We Go Again… The 2019 LeDeR Annual Report was published 16th July 2020. “Our updated data suggest that the disparity between age at death for people with learning disabilities (aged 4 years and over) and...
Desde IMAS, agradecemos y felicitamos el trabajo de investigación que María Florencia Limas hizo por su tesis de Licenciatura en Psicología (Universidad de Aconcagua). La tesis asesoró la experiencia de participación de jugadores con y sin discapacidad del proyecto...
Mixed Ability was conceived to promote social inclusion and a meaningful interaction between individuals and groups who wouldn’t necessarily share paths in their local communities. At least not in ‘normal’ circumstances. Many of our participants have experienced –...
IMAS y el equipo de de IMART 2020 tenemos que anunciar con gran tristeza que debido a la pandemia de COVID-19 y las medidas que afectan a viajes, fronteras y grandes reuniones en todo el mundo, el Torneo Internacional de Rugby Mixed Ability tendrá lugar el próximo...
Tras la fundación de su equipo Mixed Ability, ganaron el Spirit of Mixed Ability Rugby Trophy en 2015 en el IMART celebrado en Bradford. Tras eso, en 2017 fue el Club anfitrión en organizar el siguiente IMART 2017 en su ciudad! Ahora a las puertas del torneo que...
International Mixed Ability Sports is excited to announce that the European Commission, through the Erasmus+ Not-for-profit European Sport Events, has agreed to support a week of Mixed Ability activities to coincide with the 3rd International Mixed Ability Rugby...
Prior to the final event in Rome, the third issue of the MIXAR Magazine is now available! You can read about the development of Mixed Ability rugby in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and the UK. Click on the picture to download your...
Siamo lieti di annunciare che la Città di Torino ha deciso di comparire tra i firmatari del Manifesto IMAS per lo Sport Mixed Ability, che lotta per l’abbattimento delle barriere alla partecipazione delle persone in condizioni di svantaggioo o di disabilità....
International Mixed Ability Sports è lieta di annunciare che la nostra organizzazione e il Comune di Settimo Torinese hanno sottoscritto un protocollo d’intesa per promuovere il modello Mixed Ability nello sport. La partnership si basa sulla visione condivisa...
“No hay camino fácil para la libertad en ningún lugar y muchos de nosotros tendremos que pasar por el valle de las sombras una y otra vez antes de llegar a la cima de la montaña de nuestros sueños” Nelson Mandela Bajo la atenta mirada de...
A series of workshops aimed at coaches who want to make boxing at their clubs more inclusive are being launched this October. International Mixed Ability Sports, Unorthobox and England Boxing have teamed up to run the three-hour sessions in three locations –...
By Dr Jen Dyer, Dr. Rachel Sandford and Dr. Angharad Beckett The Mixed Ability Sport Development Programme (MASPD) aims to promote social inclusion through sport, education and advocacy. The Mixed Ability model is being developed and championed by the...
As part of National Learning Disability week and at a special ‘Sport You Can’ event, members of the International Mixed Ability Sports team were invited to London to present their vision for a fairer, more inclusive society and how that can be achieved through...
Almost 3 years after their first visit by IMAS and on the hottest day of the year so far, the Gloucester Griffins Mixed Ability (MA) rugby team were awarded with an accolade only held by four other teams across Europe. Based at Longlevens RFC in Gloucester, the...
Historia En Marzo de 2017, durante un entrenamiento del equipo de Yaguares Rugby Club, apareció un joven con síndrome de Down llamado Fernando, que para sorpresa de todos, quería entrenar a rugby. “Chayanne”, como le gusta que lo llamen, había vivido en España y ...
“Si pretendemos lograr una cultura más completa y rica en valores, debemos reconocer toda la gama de las potencialidades humanas, y urdir así un tejido social menos arbitrario en el que cada talento humano pueda hallar su lugar apropiado”. Margarte Mead. Los...
Mike O’Regan began a life changing journey as he assisted his son, other players and their families, his own rugby club and now a Rugby Union Premiership side to join the Mixed Ability movement. I started the Surrey Chargers after reading an...
Lo sport può essere motore di cambiamento sociale, può abbattere pregiudizi, educare e creare nuovi modelli di partecipazione. Solo però se davvero riesce ad essere inclusivo. Per questo IMAS è grata di poter contare sull’appoggio di CoorDown, organizzazione da...
