PUKDS Foundation

(Police UK Disability Sport Foundation Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Charity Commission Registration: Currently under application

The PUKDS Foundation is the funding branch of Police UK Disability Sport throughout the United Kingdom, with all projects delivered through the management of the Police UK Disability Sport CIC (Community Interest Company).

The role of the foundation will be to work collaboratively with industry partners and other charities to deliver a wide range of support programmes, including grant based giving, for cost of living, adaptive sports equipment purchase and loan schemes and working with service providers and community groups to deliver safe spaces for adaptive sport and activity participation.

The foundation will commission research into the impact of adaptive sports on individuals and groups across the UK public sector to improve the delivery of adaptive sports in the community supporting all diverse groups in the servcies.

Below are the CIO's key objectives. Each are designed to support a wide range of service communities and work with community groups and service providers to bring communities together through adaptive sport and leisure activities in the community. All of which are provided in much more detail as part of the CIO's constitution which can be viewed by clicking on the button at the bottom of this section.

The Foundation's Key Objectives:

Community amateur sports

• Supporting all grass-roots adaptive sports development within the UK's emergency, volunteer and blue light services, and armed forces communities.
• Providing grants for individuals and groups supporting individuals to participate in adaptive sport, either through cash awards to join community clubs, and purchasing specialist adaptive sports equipment.
• Through funding programmes delivering regional, national and international sports and leisure activities for members of the UK's emergency services, volunteer services, blue light and armed forces communities.
• Working collaboratively with all service providers, national governing bodies, community clubs, charities and industry partners to fund the delivery of safe spaces for adaptive sports participation.
• Support adaptive sport pathways from amateur to elite sport and Paralympic potential of individual athletes and sports teams, through funding programmes.
• Funding adaptive sporting events promoting inclusion across the country to support diverse communities.

Relief of sickness

• Provide funding through grants to individuals requirement specialist equipment that is not available on the NHS.
• Commissioning research into the effects of adaptive sports recovery after illness, both physical and mental to improve adaptive sports delivery.
• Funding the delivery of adaptive sports programmes and leisure activities to individuals and groups supporting the sick in all areas of the United Kingdom.
• Collaborate with industry partners and charities to deliver additional support services that are not available through the NHS that provide relief to the sick.
  

Relief of financial hardship

• Provide funding to individuals and organisations supporting individuals with financial support to access adaptive sports in their community, through engaging in local authority opportunities and community club networks. By helping to cover the costs of club memberships, travel expenses and the costs of participation and specialist sports equipment.

Recreational Charities Act 1958

• Providing funds for recreational facilities, both temporary and permanent, in the community, and sports delivery programmes in partnership with emergency, volunteer, blue light service providers and armed forces.

Racial harmony

• Working with staff networks within the UK's emergency, volunteer and blue light services and the armed forces, to raise awareness of racial differences and promote harmony through the power of adaptive sport in the community.
• Providing a network through its delivery partners to engage with all groups and provide a platform for shared learning and collaborative programmes.

Relief of poverty

• Provide grants to organisations providing additional support programmes in the community for the relief of poverty amongst the retired emergency, volunteer, blue light services and armed forces communities all over the United Kingdom.
• Provide assistance and advice for engaging with local authority services for gaining financial support through available benefit schemes and accessing additional support through a network of service charities.

Promotion of the law, police and crime prevention

• Working with regional police forces and local community youth groups, the foundation will fund youth offender rehabilitation programmes, where individuals identified as being on the fringes of offending, anti-social behaviour, vandalism or early gang culture, will volunteer with community adaptive sports clubs. Giving them the skills needed to integrate and positively impact on their local community.
• Provide funding for youth programmes in the community to engage in adaptive sports and provide additional leisure activities to support the young population in their community, which will give the young persons something to do and focus on with a positive outcome.
• Working with schools and colleges to engage with and provide regular adaptive sport volunteer opportunities for vulnerable students and students as risk of expulsion, so they can gain the skills needed in adult life to transition into adult life.

Equality and diversity

• Working with industry partners, public service and volunteer service providers, and armed forces partners including charities, deliver fully inclusive adaptive sports programmes through our delivery partners and fund initiatives and events that promote and celebrate adaptive sport inclusion for all diverse and minority groups across the United Kingdom.
• Commission research projects to identify gaps in delivery for supporting specific diverse and minority groups so that every individual and group are provided with equal opportunity to access support and services in adaptive sports whilst offering these opportunities bespoke to that individual or group's specific requirements.

Elderly people

Young people

Social inclusion

Religious harmony

Relief of unemployment

Board of Trustees