A Sporting Chance is an interactive website promoting accessible sports for disabled people in Devon and Cornwall. Whether the disability is physical, learning or social there are a range of different sports clubs advertised to suit specific and additional needs. The website is supported by several social networking sources including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, in order to grow awareness of the project. Featured on the website, within the organisations, are images, text and testimonials of the coach’s and the members. It is a very intimate and personal project that explores the stories of the individuals that attend the clubs.
Naomi Turnock wants to make sure the project is on going, continuously adding organisations to it, the clubs that are currently involved are Russell’s Muay Thai Boxing Club in Plymouth, West Country Hawks Wheel Chair Rugby Club in Plymouth, Special Olympics Cornwall, The Disability Campaign in Falmouth, The Disability Tennis Club at Heron Tennis Centre in Newquay, The Wave Project in Cornwall and Bodmin Dragons Ability Football Club.
Naomi created the website in order to not only promote the organisations but to bring them all together into one, easy navigating site so people with disabilities or their friends/ relatives can become more aware of the sports opportunities available to them.
The website is Naomis last project for her third and final year as a Press and Editorial Photography student at Falmouth University. She chose this area of photography in order to create a meaningful project for the area that we live in, something that is going to tell beautiful stories and also benefit others.
To view the website please visit: http://www.a-sporting-chance.com