Creating deep community leadership and engagement.

Amplifying stories and knowledge through advocacy and engagement, we create deep community leadership, partnerships and networks, driving inclusion and dissemination across key sporting and cultural moments, and empowering change in collaboration with AT users, OPD's and the disability innovation community.

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Para Sport Against Stigma - broadcasting the Paralympics to 250 million people across Africa

Challenging disability stigma through Para sport to facilitate assistive technology adoption in Africa, the AT2030 ‘Para Sport Against Stigma’ project explores disability representation and narratives to support community level interactions and para sport opportunities.

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Dancers during the GDI Festival
Disabled Leaders Network

Driven by its members, the Disabled Leaders Network is an active community of exceptional disabled leaders doing brilliant things. A hub of information, knowledge, support and capacity building to drive change, this network is funded by the Snowdon Trust.

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Innovation for Inclusion: marking the 2026 Winter Paralympics with a Disability Sport reception in Rome

Following the conclusion of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics, GDI Hub co-hosted a reception on inclusive participation and the power of disability sports legacy at the British Ambassador’s Residence, Villa Wolkonsky in Rome alongside Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, UK Minister for Social Security and Disability and Hon. Alessandra Locatelli, Italian Minister for Disabilities, and David Burton OBE, British Chargé d’Affaires Ad Interim to Italy.

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