The funding, which will be distributed in sums of 100,000 over the next three years, will pay for facilities, coaching and equipment for the camps.
It will also be used to fund the National Junior Games, an annual competition for disabled 11- to 18-year-olds.
Martin McElhatton, chief executive of WheelPower, said that camps will promote healthy activity and help nurture the next generation of Paralympic athletes. The charity will hold one-day events for primary-school children that will include a range of activities, and longer camps for 11- to 18-year-olds that will focus on specific sports.
By the end of the programme, WheelPower hopes to have worked with more than 3,000 young people, and to have organised up to 20 camps a year.
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