PROJECT
Panathlon Challenge
FUNDING
A range of grants fund different aspects of Panathlon’s work, including £375,000 for 2020/21 from St James Place Charitable Foundation and £128,350 for 2019/20 from the Jack Petchey Foundation
BACKGROUND
Panathlon was founded in 1995 with the aim of increasing competitive sport in inner city schools. Disability sport was added in 1999. After six years working with special schools and seeing the positive impact sport can make for disabled young people, the organisation began to focus solely on disability sport in 2005. The London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics raised awareness of issues around sport and disabilities and allowed the organisation to expand further, bringing in new funders. “At first we were focused solely on special schools for children with disabilities but we found over the years there are a lot of mainstream schools with children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who have not been getting sports provision,” explains chief operating officer Tony Waymouth.
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