Sport

Sport is good for everyone, for mental and physical health and none more so than if you are visually impaired. Getting out and about and exercising is essential to well-being.

Accessing mainstream sport can be difficult when you’re living with a visual impairment but so important for both physical and mental wellbeing. We offer a range of sporting activities for all levels of ability and levels of sight loss. Beginners are very welcome so why not try something new? Our sports sessions range from gentle exercise to dragon boating, tandem cycling, golf and many more. You don’t need to be an aspiring Paralympian to get involved (but if you are, we have lots for you too!). Many of us were put off of sports at school but at Berkshire Vision are sports sessions are for having fun, spending time together whilst having a go at something we might have thought we couldn’t do.

We can provide wheelchair accessible transport on one of our minibuses from your front door to our sporting sessions.

I’ve had a great time with Berkshire Vision getting involved with activities. I’ve loved ice skating, rock climbing and go-karting. It’s important for me to do things which challenge me to build my confidence and challenge stereotypes. When I first found out about my sight loss I thought it meant I would never be able to drive or try new things. Sport was one of the things which helped me to challenge this self limiting belief and it’s what got me motivated and out of that negative head space. I started with tandem cycling which helped me in regaining my confidence and to build my independence. This also allowed me to meet other people who were VI who I could related to understood what I was going through. And this was the beginning of me believing"

Great start to the weekend at my first blind football training session thanks to Berkshire Vision at Reading Football Club and I even managed to score a goal! The training team and volunteers were all great and I can’t wait for the next session!

“My daughter has attended a number of the sessions and loves to take part in the sporting activity. She has no vision at all and finding accessible sports is very difficult. At the club she is welcomed and allowed to take part to her ability. Her older brother is also welcomed and it is an activity that we take part of as a family which is very important to us.”

“The Club provides my child with a sense of confidence as she can try out activities with people like herself and compete as an equal, rather than try a sport at school with fully sighted children and always come last. I never have to worry about her safety or explaining to anyone about her sight difficulties. We can just all get stuck in and concentrate on learning a sport and enjoying ourselves.”

“I really enjoy our yoga class. I always leave feeling refreshed with mind and body ready to take on the challenges I’ll face in the week ahead”

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