The Wheelchair Sports Worldwide Foundation

About

The Wheelchair Sports Worldwide Foundation is the funding and marketing division of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation which provides services to over seventy member nations. The Headquarters are located at Stoke Mandeville where sport for people with spinal injuries began in 1945 after the Second World War. From this point sport for people with a disability has grown to encompass virtually all disabilities and resulted in the birth of the second largest sporting event in the world, the Paralympic Games, which are held in parallel with the Olympic Games every four years.

Organisation

The organisation is managed by an Executive Management Committee which is elected by the Assembly of Nations every four years.