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With contact across Europe and interest from places as far away as Argentina, he soon realized there was a movement and founded IMAS to give it structure and purpose. IMAS offers education, shares best practice and provides practical training to help Mixed Ability teams succeed. It also empowers experts with lived experience of disability to train advocates for Mixed Ability sport, such as health and social care professionals, school teachers, sports coaches and administrators, as well as policymakers. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll these people create the ecosystem that drives our movement forward. It is grounded in, and belongs to, local communities everywhere. If it was something imposed from the top \u2013 that wouldn\u2019t be sustainable<\/em>,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say there haven\u2019t been challenges. \u201cBarriers are always the same. Cost, transport, time, volunteering<\/em>,\u201d Corazza says. \u201cBut the big obstacle to bring about change is cultural. There\u2019s still this wider mentality whereby people with disability can\u2019t do certain things. The stereotypes and prejudices are still quite shocking<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Having said that, in his experience, where there\u2019s a will there\u2019s a way: \u201cEveryone who starts a Mixed Ability team knows someone who was excluded, a son or daughter or sibling who wanted to be part of a club, and they are the champions driving it forward. We know there\u2019s a global demand for Mixed Ability and we can\u2019t meet it without adequate resources. In that sense, the partnership we have [with Flutter] is essential<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.flutter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With contact across Europe and interest from places as far away as Argentina, he soon realized there was a movement and founded IMAS to give it structure and purpose. IMAS offers education, shares best practice and provides practical training to help Mixed Ability teams succeed. It also empowers experts with lived experience of disability to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2008979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Flutter-Community-Partnership-Spotlight-Mixing-it-Up-With-IMAS-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}