About Us
The ASAPD Strategy
Together with the support of Australian Sports Commission, leaders from National Sporting Organisations for People with a Disability (NSODs) united to establish an Alliance, dedicated to better serve the disability sport sector. These NSODs are lead organisations with participant numbers, members, and volunteers that collectively impact many thousands of people across Australia, and including Blind Sports Australia, Boccia Australia, Deaf Sports Australia, Disability Sports Australia, Disabled Wintersport Australia, Riding for the Disabled Australia, Special Olympics Australia, Sport Inclusion Australia, and Transplant Australia.
Our Vision
All Australians have an opportunity to engage in sport and active recreation in a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Our Purpose
We collaborate, advocate, and facilitate inclusive sport and active recreation for people with a disability, impairment, or limitation.
Our Principles
- Improve the quality of life for people with a disability by promoting participation in sport and active recreation
- Represent people living with a disability, enabling full participation in sport and active recreation
- Lead a unified approach for active lives in welcoming and socially inclusive environments
- Advocate, educate, and support inclusivity in the broader sporting and active recreation sectors for those living with a disability. Foster relationships with governments and stakeholders to enhance accessibility in sport and active recreation
- Ensure ASAPD’s sustainable governance aligns with its vision and mission
Our Objectives
- Support and enable our members to create welcoming and inclusive environments
- Unlock the financial potential of the alliance to help our members deliver
- Help our members across planning, engagement and operational efficiency
- Foster coordination and collaboration across the alliance to maximise our potential
Benefits of the ASAPD Collaborative Approach
This new unified and collaborative approach has already delivered several tangible benefits, including:
- More cohesion in the disability sporting sector.
- Greater efficiency in sport delivery.
- Improved working relationships with NSO’s and inclusion as an integral part of the wider sporting industry.
- Enhanced programs and pathways from grassroots to high performance.
- Increased capacity to engage more inactive people in sport and physical activity.
- Unified approach to building stronger physical and health outcomes.
- Improved efficiencies in sharing of resources between agencies.
- Greater communication and awareness about the power of sport and physical activity to deliver social inclusion.
- Increased research and innovation projects in inclusive sport.