Scottish Disability Sport (SDS) and Celtic FC Foundation have formed a partnership to increase opportunities for children, athletes and player with a disability in the west of Scotland to access sport.
The year-long project will work to address gaps in provision and through an inclusive approach with current provision where appropriate.
Sports as varied as football, judo and wheelchair basketball will be supported with a view to establishing regular and sustainable opportunities to participate.
A Parasport Pathways Festival will also be held in March 2014 aimed at pupils with a disability from across the West of Scotland with the country's top coaches on hand across a wide variety of sports.
The project will conclude with the three-day SDS Summer Sports Camp in Largs, which will provide young people with physical and sensory impairments between the ages of 10-18 with an opportunity to attend a residential multi-sports experience with peers from across Scotland.
SDS chief executive Gavin Macleod said: "We are delighted to be working in partnership with Celtic FC Foundation to increase opportunities for young people, athletes and players to access quality sports opportunities and to progress within their chosen sport. Celtic have always had the needs of the wider community at the heart of their work and we thank them sincerely for their significant support of disability sport."
Commenting on behalf of Celtic FC Foundation, its CEO, Tony Hamilton, said: "I am delighted that we have such worthy partners as Scottish Disability Sport. This is a tremendous opportunity for so many young people. Our aim is to do more work like this in future and I hope that this is the start of a much longer relationship with SDS."
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