Important dates
15th September 2025 - competition opens
7th August 2026, 5:00pm (GMT) - competition closed
14th August 2026 - Competition brief awards shortlist announced,
(public voting open for each brief sponsor awards)
28th August 2026 - Competition Winners announced at a hybrid awards ceremony
Objectives
- Raise awareness of the needs of people living with disabilities for inclusive games and sports activities.
- Produce thought-provoking inclusive solutions to the needs of players and athletes at an entry-level.
- Communicate designs to everyone so they may be made safely with limited resources and or skills as a Design Hack.
- Enable more people to take part in enjoyable exercise and sports.
- Aspire to be a low-cost, sustainable, inclusive sports product.
Prize
There are three levels of Award, Gold, Silver, Bronze, plus Gold Sponsor Award for each of the briefs. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Award winners receive a Competition certificate, with the Gold Sponsor Award also winning £100 of online shopping vouchers.
All the shortlisted designs will be publicised widely through all media outlets by Boccia England, Special Olympics, CP Sports, Grampian Sports, and Loughborough University.
£100 Gold sponsor award prize
The aim of this year's competition is to make a difference for people living with disability in their experience of taking part in activities and games for all by making them inclusive; and, publicise open-source information on how to make a version within their local community.
Brief A
Inclusive products to support the Motor Activities Training Programme (MATP), Special Olympics training sessions
Brief B
Accessories for Boccia, Boccia England
Brief C
Entry-level athlete training aid for a paralympic sport. Para Sport Loughborough
Brief D
Accessories for adapted cycling, Grampian Inclusive Cycling Bothies
Brief E
Inclusive sports products for CP athletes and sports people. CP Sports
Brief F
Celebration of Sport, Loughborough Sport
Brief G
Raising awareness of inclusive Sports, Loughborough Sport
Brief H
Empowerment through Inclusive sport, Loughborough Sport
Creative design
- All creative art designs should focus on a 2D image but may be supported using a Smart Phone or other proprietary electronic device for Augmented Reality and or Virtual Reality.
- All creative art designs must be within the required dimensions for the specific brief.
- All graphic and media submissions should be accessible and inclusive through available communication formats, e.g. braille, Type reader, Q codes.
Assistive product design hack
- All product designs should focus on a physical product but may be supported using a Smart Phone or other proprietary electronic device being repurposed.
- All graphic and media submissions should be accessible and inclusive through available communication formats, e.g. braille, Type reader, Q codes.
- Your design should be based on secondary (desk-based) research. The resources will be sign-posted (see attached notes). If you are involving people in your designs, you must gain ethics approval from your Institutional Review Board of your University.
- Keep your design simple. Someone else will have to make your design with limited resources.
- Use low-cost, sustainable, and readily available materials, such as plywood, softwoods, Cardboard, recycled packaging, ferrous and non-ferrous metal standard box section and tubing.
- Keep electrical circuits simple, using readily available components and or your coding that could be reproduced using a proprietary software package, e.g. Arduino or Raspberry Pi.
- Communicate your plans through dimensions on an Engineering drawing convention and schematics, component lists, illustrations, or photographs of a prototype presented as slides within your narrated video.
Contact us
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