Darebin leisure facilities tour
Darebin City Council is hosting a leisure bus tour for disability staff, planners and individuals who support people with disability to participate in community life. The tour will visit various community and lesiure centres around the Darebin area and participants will have the opportunity to meet the staff at these facilities. All participants will receive an information pack detailing all local lesiure opportunies and the tour will be capped off with a free lunch...
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VALE LIFE & FOUNDING MEMBER - IVAN RISOJEVIC 8th September 1937 – 25th April 2012
Sadly, Life & Founding Member Ivan Risojevic passed away on Anzac Day 2012, at home surrounded by his
family. ..
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Daily Living Expo
Disability Sport & Recreation will again be involved in the
bi-annual ATSA Daily Living Expo being on the 16th
and 17th May at Caulfield Race Course...
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Wheelchair marathon winner bound for Singapore
The Winner of this year’s Wheelchair Athlete’s Challenge at the Great Ocean Road Marathon festival will be awarded with an all-expenses paid trip to take part in one of the world’s biggest marathon events in Singapore. Winning will be no easy feat though, as athletes from around the country will take on 14km of gruelling, hilly terrain...
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Futsal Tournament: Calling all aspiring Messis
For all you football nuts out there, the Victoria University soccer team is holding a futsal tournament on April 14 and there are still spots left to enter a team. Come and impress us with your Messi-like skills and trickery while raising money for a great cause...
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CyclePower Cambodia - Meet the Cambodian Women
Cyclepower Cambodia – a joint initiative
between Australian NGO Disability Sport & Recreation (DSR) and Cambodian
charity partner Stand Up Cambodia (CNVLD) will see a group of 20 cyclists ride
across Cambodia in June 2012 to raise awareness of and funds for disability
sport and recreation.
Funded in part by the Cyclepower initiative
and associated activities, DSR and Stand Up Cambodia will pilot a wheelchair
basketball program for women with disability in Cambodia...
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Winter wonderland for kids
Do you want to carve down the slopes and try out some cool new equipment? The pristine slopes of Falls Creek are waiting for you...
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An evening with Ramesh Ferris
On Wednesday 21st March, DSR hosted a meet and greet with Ramesh Ferris, Canadian polio survivor, international advocate and keen handcyclist...
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2012 Australian Deaf Games
The Deaf Games, held every four years since the games began in 1964, took place in Geelong this January and attracted over 900 athletes from
Australia and the Pacific region. It is only the second time the event has been held
outside a capital city, and the first time in Victoria for 30 years...
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Start your new year with a challenge!
With the start of the new year now is the time to get fit and support a great cause! What better goal to set for yourself
than to join DSR in CyclePower Cambodia! ..
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2011 Disability Sports and Recreation Awards
Two Australian athletes in training for the
2012 London Paralympics took out awards at the 2011 Victorian Disability
Sports Awards at Federation Square, December 2011...
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Community Exhibition a success!
In the morning peak of foot traffic along Melbourne’s Swanston Street, two women
emerged from the moving mass of business suits and brief cases, put down their
handbags and coffee cups, and climbed into the awaiting basketball wheelchairs,
escaping from their usual workday. ..
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DSR Goes UpStream
By volunteer Chris McMenamin ..
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