Nominate Cambridge sportspeople

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Sports Awards 2007 have rolled around again and nominations are now open for the

• Sports Performer with a Disability

award, which carries a prize of a £100 grant towards their development, a trophy and sports kit.

Nomination form (PDF, 260kb) from the Living Sport website.

2007 Awards Nominations

We are now receiving nominations for the 2007 award, and will be publishing them as they come in. We hope readers who also know these people and places will write in with their experiences in support of nominees that they would like to see win.

• The management team at Cherry Hinton Village Centre
• Papworth Everard Brownies
• Cambridge Dial-a-Ride
• Chathura and the staff at the Co-op on Hills Road
• The postal tape service run by CamSight
• The care team at 112 Wulfstan Way, Queen Edith's
• John Loader, senior volunteer at the session for visually impaired swimmers, Chesterton Sports Centre
• Lawrence and his team at Granta Punts, Newnham Road
• The Pavilion, Impington Village College
• Brown's Restaurant, Trumpington Street

There is still plenty of time to have your say: nominations will be counted until 1st October, so make your Way To Be Awards nomination now.

Other Awards

Its always good to see people you vaguely know or even know win awards. This linked article about Cambridge man Martin Sabry, shows another award for technology to help disabled people. It is this type of technology that we hope gets recommended for The Way To Be Awards.



I don't know Martin, but I know his mother.


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Welcome to The Way To Be Awards blog

I am Mark Taylor and I am the Access Officer at Cambridge City Council. I work in the Planning Department, because an important part of my time is spent in looking at planning applications for new developments, and advising people on how best to make changes to old buildings.

Although helpfulness and consideration are as old as mankind, some changes needed legislation, and that's what the Disability Discrimination Act (the DDA) did in 2004. Now all services, businesses and public buildings have to consider how everyone, including people with disabilities, get in, join in and find their way around.

Businesses nominated for The Way To Be awards in 2006 included a lot of shops and taxi drivers, which is not surprising when you consider how important it is to be able to get where you want to go, and to buy the things you need. Everyday things that many people take for granted, but the people who nominated our 2006 heroes didn't take them for granted and we will be featuring them on this blog over the coming weeks.