PUKDS Founder Gary Callier and Chief Executive Officer of British Wheelchair Basketball Justine Baynes announce a partnership.

PUKDS will be joining the BWB Inspire A Generation Wheelchair Basketball League in the upcoming season, with the intention to join he National League the season after.

The partnership has come with an IAG grant, which has enabled PUKDS to purchase the six blue chairs pictured here.

The first PUKDS Multi-Sport event for Police Health and Well-Being took place over the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of August at the David Ross Sports Village at the University of Nottingham.

The event will become an annual event and will each year take place in a different force area. The aim is to raise the awareness of these amazing adaptive and fully inclusive sports within the police community within the local force and surrounding force areas.

The events are free to attend and participation is for the entire police community, officers, staff and volunteers from all areas of policing as well as being open to their friends and family to try out the sports.

We also encourage the exhibitors, sponsors and charities to take part in the sports, which provides them with an understanding of the sports which they can take back to their customers/members to highlight the power of adaptive sports recovery.

This event was unfortunately affected by the recent nationwide public unrest and on the same weekend Nottingham and the surrounding towns and cities faced widespread protests and rioting. This meant that all officers, staff and volunteers were called to duty and responded to mutual aid from the surrounding force areas.

But regardless of this, PUKDS pressed forward and were able to showcase each sport with the help of our dedicated volunteer staff, coaches, sports ambassadors and even the sponsors, exhibiting organisations and police charities took part in the activities.

PUKDS are already looking at venues and dates for 2025.