Sported's Winter Pulse Reinforces the No Limits 2026 Campaign Aims

Sported’s Community Pulse Winter 2025–26 England report highlights that disabled people continue to face significant barriers to taking part in sport, with inaccessible facilities identified as a key factor limiting participation (44%). Alongside financial pressures, transport issues and confidence shaped by negative past experiences, the lack of accessible venues remains one of the most persistent inequalities facing community sport.

These findings strongly align with the aims of the No Limits 2026 campaign, which focuses on removing barriers and redesigning sport and physical activity to be accessible from the outset. Central to this approach are the No Limits Ambassadors – people with lived experience of disability who support community events, raise awareness and challenge assumptions about who sport is for.

The report further supports our priority around facility accessibility including that of parks and open spaces. The No Limits 2026 campaign will be promoting the increase in number of accessible venue listings and audits through projects with accessiblity platforms such as Euan’s Guide and AccessAble to help community organisations better understand and improve the accessibility of their spaces and general public to feel confident to use them. We will also be embarking on providing dedicated venue audit training to Leisure providers across the county in association with Herts Disability Sports Foundation to ensure facilities are truly welcoming not just physically accessible. By combining lived experience with practical tools, venue audits will help ensure that improvements are informed, meaningful and rooted in real user needs.

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Read the full summary report of the Sported Pulse survey here

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