Suffolk-based disability charity Optua is holding a major disability sport event in Lowestoft this September.

The Waveney Disability Sport Showcase Day will be held at Waveney Leisure Centre on Saturday 22nd September and will give disabled people the chance to try out a range of Paralympic sports for free.
Sports confirmed for the event so far include archery, football, sailing, judo, wheelchair basketball, athletics, goalball, sitting volleyball, table tennis and powerlifting. The event is available to anyone with a physical, sensory or learning disability and Optua wants to attract as many disabled people as possible from across the area, both in Suffolk and Norfolk.

The Waveney Showcase Day is the third of these very successful events to be held. The Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds Showcase Days each attracted over 120 disabled people. The Showcase Days are part of Optua’s Suffolk Disability SportAcademy project which aims to encourage more disabled people to get into sport and maybe even help them on the road to the 2012 Paralympics in London.

There will be a creche facility on the day. Optua is also looking for any volunteers who’d like to help on the day, assisting with the sports and acting as guides and enablers to help disabled people get around the venue.

The event is being supported by a range of organisations including Suffolk Sport, Waveney District Council, the Active Waveney Sports Partnership, the Geoffrey Watling Charity, the Suffolk Foundation and Harrod UK Limited.

Anyone who wants to take part in the day or find out more about the Suffolk Disability Sport Academy can:

call Optua Leisure on 01473 836770,

email [email protected]

or go to www.beyourbest.org.uk