Activate your ability

We promote sports practice among people or schoolchildren with disabilities.

The actions to acquire material for disability care and sports training in disability of the Activa Tu Capacity program have been financed in the 22-23 academic year with funds from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism from the European Union.

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The program

It is aimed at disseminating and promoting the practice of physical activity and sports among schoolchildren who have some type of disability, whether physical, mental or sensory, in their respective educational centers.

Nowadays, physical activity and sport are a fundamental component in the quality of life of our society. However, people who have some type of functional diversity have real problems of access and monitoring for the practice of healthy physical activity and sports.

It is known that practicing sport brings multiple benefits to people with functional diversity:

Promotes rehabilitation.
Increases personal autonomy.
Helps social integration.
Promotes the desire for personal improvement.
Collaborate in the suppression of architectural and social barriers.
Improves the general psychological state.
Contributes to functional rehabilitation.
Increases self-esteem.
Helps personal development.

In this sense, we must be able to enable the practice of adapted sports, as well as inclusiveness in sports activities. For this, it is essential to foster the population's capacity for empathy in order to share spaces and activities with people with functional diversity. This compatibility can be through the practice of sport and physical activity in inclusive groups, where people with functional diversity share physical-sports activities with the rest, or through the sports practice of physical activity in specific groups, which takes place outside the ordinary group.

In both cases, it is important to favor the proximity sport to the social and family environment, optimizing the services offered by the Community and making sports centers some spaces for socio-cultural and sports animation, with full accessibility for all kinds of functional diversities, with the aim of favoring social interrelation”.

Objectives:

Generalize the practice of sport and physical activity for people with disabilities.
Create or support sports schools for specific groups at the request of them or their federations, increasing their visibility.
Design inclusive sporting events between schoolchildren and families that favor visibility and social empathy towards disability.

Target groups:

Schoolchildren between the ages of 6 and 21, who present any type of functional diversity and who are enrolled in public and private/subsidized centers in the Community of Madrid.
People with any type of functional diversity, who wish to obtain any of the technical qualifications promoted by the participating sports federations.
The participation of students will be carried out through sports actions with the schools where they are enrolled, promoted by the participating federations.
The program takes place throughout the school year from October to June.

Participating Federations:

Accessible Community Facilities

The Community of Madrid offers the greatest accessibility and adaptability, for all types of users and athletes, in the sports facilities it manages. In this sense, all those works of reform or adaptation of its spaces are carried out based on existing accessibility standards and regulations.

World Swimming Center 86

World86 This sports center dedicated exclusively to swimming has a high percentage of accessible spaces for people with reduced mobility, although work continues to make it fully accessible. Competitions are held there for people with different degrees of disability.

People with reduced mobility can access the car park outside the facility, where there are spaces reserved for people with disabilities. Through a suitable ramp they can access the center entrance. Once inside, they can access the pool area by means of an elevator with the appropriate dimensions for use with a wheelchair.

The accessible spaces for people with reduced mobility or disabilities in the facility are:

Indoor Olympic pool (accessible by lift chair)
Summer pool covered by tent (glass accessible via lift chair).
Separate changing room for people with disabilities.
Access to office area.
ac accesscafeteria
water accessvenue for sporting events.

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Canal de Isabel II Sports Facilities

CY II Multiple actions have been carried out in these sports facilities to make them accessible. Currently, most of its spaces are accessible to people with reduced mobility, although work is still being done to make them fully accessible.

People with reduced mobility can access the facility's internal car park by vehicle, where there are spaces reserved for people with disabilities.

The accessible spaces for people with reduced mobility or disabilities in the facility are:

Padel courts
Tennis courts
Covered sports hall
Room 1 (Main gym where room activities are taught)
Fronton
Pool area (the pool is accessible via a lift chair)
Clothing (male and female)
Offices
Coffee shop

There is a second room, called 'Room 2' or 'bodybuilding room', which does not have accessibility conditions, where directed activities such as pilates, mental fitness, postural gymnastics, GAP and Fit Canal are taught. Likewise, the space dedicated to the solarium does not have the possibility of access for people with reduced mobility, although work continues to make this sports facility fully accessible.

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Puerta de Hierro Sports Park

Due to its dimensions and environmental characteristics, this facility is constantly adapting its spaces to eliminate architectural barriers and make it fully accessible. All actions, reform or conditioning of spaces, are carried out based on accessibility regulations.

People with reduced mobility can access the interior of the facility by vehicle, with spaces for exclusive parking. However, from the general car park itself, there are spaces reserved for people with disabilities, making it possible to access the different sports spaces and facilities that are located inside, as the architectural barriers have been removed.

The accessible spaces for people with reduced mobility or disability are:

Padel courts.
Tennis courts.
Sports fields.
Pediment and Minipediments.
Special Training Center.
Rugby field.
Golf Driving Range.
Archery field.
The pool area (the pool is accessible via a lift chair).
Racquet Sports clothing (male and female).
Pool changing rooms (male and female).
Locker room Special Training Center.
Offices.

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San Vicente de Paúl Sports Facilities

SVP The San Vicente de Paúl Sports Facilities are accessible to people with different degrees of disability. In all the structural reforms carried out previously, the existing regulations for people with disabilities have been taken into account. In this sense, accessibility focuses on:

Main access. Access to the facility is via a ramp equipped for people with reduced mobility to the entrance window to the facility.
Access to changing rooms. Access to the changing rooms is enabled for people with disabilities, complying with current regulations (access, toilets, toilets, showers, etc.).
Access to the pool. Access to the pool area from the changing rooms is enabled for people with disabilities through structural ramps for this purpose. Likewise, the access of special vehicles to the pool area and its annexes (changing rooms, toilets, cafeteria, common areas, etc.) is conditioned.
Direct access to bathroom glass. Disabled people can access the inside of the bathroom by means of a special hydraulic chair.
Access to the different sports spaces. Access to the sports courts is through specific structural ramps for people with disabilities, as well as direct access to sports venues (paddle tennis, tennis, football, gym, etc).

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WiZink Center

wizink The WiZink Center is a benchmark, as far as shows are concerned, both in sports and culture in the Community of Madrid. It comprises a centrally located building, inaugurated in 1960, which has been subsequently renovated and modernized to adapt it to the needs of citizens, constituting a large-capacity multicultural and sports space that enables the holding of multiple events with the presence of a large number of spectators.

Since its reopening in 2005, it has become a 100% accessible space so that people with reduced mobility, or who have different degrees of disability, can access all kinds of sports, musical or other events.

accessible spaces

Accessible parking next to the main entrance door, located in the underground area of the building, which can be accessed by an elevator with the appropriate dimensions for people with reduced mobility.
The building has access from its four sides through 9 doors, although the one located on Calle Felipe II (Door C) has no difference in level, enabling specific spaces for people with reduced mobility and their companions.
Once inside, there is a suitable and enabled ramp to access sector 25 (area reserved for people with reduced mobility).
From the car park you can directly access the box of authorities with an accessible route.
All floors of the building communicate with each other by stairs and elevators.
With regard to accessible toilets, there are four adapted cabins in tower C, located in the corridor that leads to the elevator core. All are marked with the Universal Accessibility Symbol (SIA).
On the ground floor there are 5 accessible terraces reserved for people in wheelchairs in sectors 5, 11, 17 and 25 (entering through door C).
Floor -2 (track) can be accessed by elevator. It can also be accessed from floor -1 (changing rooms) through an enabled ramp.
Both changing rooms (floor -1) and the underground car park (floor -2) are accessible to people with reduced mobility.

visual accessibility

The existing information and signage presents a high color contrast with the background, standing at a height between 0 and 200 cm and the characters are large, following a constant pattern (texts and symbols are not in high relief or in the Braille system).

hearing accessibility

Both technical sound aids, sign language interpreters, magnetic induction loops, medical service,... are contracted by the organizers of each event.

In all elevators there are auditory signals indicating floors.

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Navacerrada Residence

The Navacerrada Residence is a modern and central building that enables Madrid fans to practice mountain sports, specially equipped for relaxation. It is located in the Port of Navacerrada, the highest inhabited area in the Community of Madrid (1.880 metres), being the highest in the station, with eight stories, and opened in 1952. It has a maximum capacity of 124 people. In all the works carried out, access for people with reduced mobility or different degrees of disability has been taken into account.

accessible spaces

It has two rooms adapted for people with disabilities (one double and one triple).
All common spaces are accessible to people with reduced mobility.
Access for people with wheelchairs is through the car park, via a ramp.

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