Welcome
Great British Wheelchair Rugby is a 20 year old not for profit registered Charity representing the sport across
the UK and Great Britain on the world stage.
Our objectives are to develop a fully inclusive sport, enabling players to achieve and reach their full potential
regardless of financial status or disability.
Wheelchair rugby as featured in the Bafta Award nominated film Murderball is a full-blooded, contact sport
developed initially for tetraplegics - those whose disabilities affect both their lower and upper limbs and offers
male and female players significant rehabilitational, health and social benefits as well as gaining athletic
achievement at both national and World Class Sporting levels.
As a charity we depend on income from sponsorship, donations and membership in order to fund key areas of our work.
This includes ongoing support for Elite Squad Athletes ranked 1st in Europe and 4th in the world rankings, our
development team which develops the sport from grass roots to Elite squad level and our ever growing national League.
Our players belong to an international family where competition on the court is matched by comradeship off the
court. The sport promotes teamwork, personal independence and the ability to succeed no matter what the odds. Wheelchair
rugby became a full Paralympic sport at Sydney in 2000 and is without question one the fastest-growing wheelchair
sports in the world. |
