Exciting new 3v3 format launched

Saturday 18 June, saw the launch of GBWR’s brand new discipline, three-v-three at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. Three-v-three is a new discipline exclusively for low-point Paralympic discipline players. The new discipline shares several characteristics with 3x3 basketball. Our game is played on half-court with only one try line for both teams to score over and as the name suggests, there are only three players per team on the court. Six teams came together to pilot the new discipline with ea...
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GBWR partners with UK Coaching!

GREAT BRITAIN WHEELCHAIR RUGBY PARTNER WITH UK COACHING AS NUMBER OF PEOPLE DELIVERING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FALLS BY A THIRD Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby has partnered with UK Coaching as part of a nationwide drive to expand the coaching workforce, aiming to inspire more people to take on coaching roles within the sport. The partnership will see UK Coaching supporting Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby’s coaching recruitment and retention, with a view to significantly increas...
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Canada Cup 2022

The International Wheelchair Rugby Canada Cup 2022 is taking place in Richmond, Canada at the Richmond Olympic Oval, with six of the highest-ranked teams worldwide competing - Japan, GB, Australia, France, Canada, and Denmark. Sadly, team USA had to withdraw from the competition. You can find more info HERE. The competition will take...
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New Digital, Marketing, and Community Club Guide!

Welcome to our new Digital, Marketing, and Community Club Guide. This guide has been designed to help clubs build a great online presence to help in areas such as recruiting new members, building awareness of wheelchair rugby, being more visible to potential funders and sponsors and developing links with your local community. The guide covers all the main ways you can be visible online providing basic good practice, top tips and checklists so that you can see if your club is doing this wel...
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GB Wheelchair Rugby partners with Sport England to tackle inequality

GB Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) is amongst a group of over 120 organisations working in partnership with Sport England to level up access to sport and physical activity across the country. GBWR will receive expertise, support and an investment of £2.2 million over a 5-year period of government and National Lottery funding from Sport England to co-deliver its 10-year Uniting the Movement strategy. Sport England research shows that some groups are typically less active – like women, people wit...
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New discipline three-v-three

GBWR is currently looking for low point players to represent GB at this summer’s World Games. To celebrate this recognition of the low point game, at an international tournament, GBWR is launching our own version of the low point game discipline, called three-v-three.Three-v-three is an exciting new discipline of wheelchair rugby, that incorporates all the elements of the traditional game while putting low point players firmly in the spotlight. Our n...
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