News In Focus – Disability Sport Air Date – Thursday 13th October 6-7pm

This week’s News In Focus program aims to highlight disability sport in our area, following the success of Ollie Hynd and Charlotte Henshaw at this year’s Paralympic games in Rio.

The Paralympic medallists will share their experiences of Rio on the show, which will also feature their coach Glenn Smith as well as a number of local disability sports charities, including CP Sport and Special Olympics GB.

Ali Talbot is the CEO of Nottingham based CP Sport, a specialist charity working with children and adults with Cerebral Palsy and engaging them with sport. She gave this example of how CP Sport has helped engage youngsters with sport

“I’ve seen it as both a mother and as a CEO, as I have a son who has CP myself. In seeing a child that discovered table cricket for the very first time at one of our events the look on their face when they saw the bat hit the ball for the first time thinking ‘yes I can do this’ makes the job so much worthwhile.”  

News In Focus with Matt Freeman, airs every Thursday 6-7pm, click on the picture below for more.