
Sport Northern Ireland have commissioned a team from the Centre for Health, Activity and Wellbeing Research (CAWR) at Cardiff Metropolitan University to run a project to better understand the motivations of current outdoor sport participants and the demographics of individuals participating in these sports in an aim to support the development of outdoor sport clubs. If you are interested in taking part in the project which is voluntary and includes an online anonymous survey (approx. 10-15 minutes to complete), then please use the below QR code or click here

Thanks to canoeing, Jonny Young can walk again. Sport changes lives and none more so than Young’s, who in the decade since a spinal cord injury has gone from being a full-time wheelchair user to ambulant. Now he’s targeting Paris 2024 as the ‘cherry on the top’ of a truly remarkable recovery, propelled by the Paralympic Games. “Sport has given me a better quality of life than I could have imagined,” said the 38-year-old. “I have a disability for the rest of my life but I can strive to push the boundaries of what is achievable.” Read the full article here