Games & Competitions
Throughout the year, every year, local, regional and national sport competitions take place all over Great Britain.
To check what competition is been held in your area this month visit our Events Calendar.
National single sport competitions take place in the two years leading up to the National Summer Games, whilst National, European, World Summer and Winter Games are held every four years.
WORLD GAMES
Special Olympics World Games are organised every two years alternating between Summer and Winter Games.
In October 2007, the 12th World Summer Games took place in Shanghai, China. The last Special Olympics Winter Games took place in Boise, Idaho - USA in February 2009.
The next World Summer Games will take place in Athens in 2011.
EUROPEAN GAMES
The next European Summer Games will take place in Warsaw, Poland in September 2010.
NATIONAL GAMES
The last Special Olympics Great Britain National Summer Games were held in Leicester in 2009
Leicester City Council and the Games Organising Committee were shorlited at the Sport Industry Awards 2010 in the ' Sport Participation Event of the Year' category
Special Olympics is founded on the belief that people with a learning disability can, with proper instruction and encouragement, learn, enjoy and benefit from participation in individual and team sports, adapted as necessary to meet their individual needs.
Special Olympics believes that regular training, under the guidance of appropriately qualified coaches is essential to the development of sports skills. Competition among those of equal abilities is the most appropriate means of testing those skills, measuring progress and providing incentive for personal growth.
Special Olympics gives opportunities for athletes with a learning disability of all ability levels.
Special Olympics also offers Unified Sports® to promote the inclusion of athletes with a learning disability into mainstream sport and the Motor Activities Training Programme for people with profound or multiple disabilities.
For more information on the MATP programme, please contact us on: 020 7247 8891
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