Author: Vicky Hope-Walker, CEO of the National Paralympic Heritage Trust, 21st March 2024 The National Paralympic Heritage Trust (NPHT) is delighted to announce that Samuel Brady has successfully defended his PhD thesis on ‘The socio-technical history of manual sport wheelchair devices’ with the University of Glasgow. Sam passed his viva with minor corrections. We are accredited as a ‘nationally styled museum’, and academic programmes of work is crucial to our success. None of this would have been possible without the work of Sporting Heritage, providing ideas, guidance and crucially the ..read more

Author: Sam Brady, 18th May 2022 Over the last two years, blogging has become an important part of my PhD experience. Throughout this period, I feel like I have really expanded on my abilities as a writer and researcher and have been able to feed these skills back into writing my thesis. Further, I really valued the chance to research topics that otherwise did not fit into my PhD topic focus. However, I have decided to take a step back from monthly blogging to focus more on my thesis writing, so I thought it might be nice to tie off this period of work with a reflective blog about the val ..read more

5th April 2024 Contents Overview Background Role Your application and the recruitment process Overview The National Paralympic Heritage Trust (NPHT) has embarked on a new exciting five-year strategy – ‘Becoming Seamlessly Inclusive 2023-2028’. To help us on this journey, this is an exciting opportunity to join our team as the Trust’s Company Administrator, a key role within our organisation. The NPHT is a young dynamic and diverse organisation, and a leader in accessible heritage. Over our first five years we have engaged with over half a million people with the ambition to reach a million ove ..read more

5th April 2024 Contents Overview Background Role Your application and the recruitment process Overview The National Paralympic Heritage Trust (NPHT) has embarked on a new exciting 5-year Strategy – ‘Becoming Seamlessly Inclusive 2023-2028’. To help us on this journey this is an exciting opportunity to join our team as the Trust’s Volunteer and Trainee Support Officer, a key role within our organisation. We are looking for someone who would enjoy supporting our volunteers and trainees and who can demonstrate good administration skills. The NPHT is a young dynamic and diverse organisation, and a ..read more

Meeting held in Stoke Mandeville Stadium with a Zoom option. Chairman's Welcome The meeting was held in person at Stoke Mandeville Stadium with a Zoom option.  NP declared the meeting quorate and welcomed all attendees.  No conflicts of interest declared.  The Minutes from the last meeting were approved with no amendments.  The CEO confirmed that the Matters Arising from the previous meeting were either completed or progressing; several matters will be discussed in other agenda points in this meeting.  Financial Update The Trustees were given an update from the recent ..read more

Meeting held at the BPA Offices, London, with a Zoom option. Chairman's Welcome RM declared the meeting quorate and welcomed all attendees. No conflicts of interest declared. The Minutes from the last meeting were approved with no amendments. The CEO confirmed that the Matters Arising from the previous meeting were either completed or progressing.  Financial Update The Trustees were given an update from the recent Finance & Development Committee meeting.  The Trustees were advised that the Trust is in a sustainable financial position after recent confirmation/receipt of grants. T ..read more

Meeting held at Bucks Council Offices, The Gateway, with a Zoom option. Chairman's Welcome The Chair declared the meeting quorate and welcomed all attendees. No conflicts of interest declared. The Minutes from the last meeting were approved with no amendments. The CEO confirmed that the Matters Arising from the previous meeting were progressing or complete. Financial Update The cash balance was felt to be good. The potential balance for the accounts 2022/23 was expected to be a small deficit of around £9000. Staff costs were under budget, but fundraising posts started later than expected. Offi ..read more

Meeting held at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Aylesbury with a Zoom option. Chairman's Welcome Chairman declared the meeting quorate and welcomed all attendees. No conflicts of interest declared. The Minutes from the last meeting were approved with no amendments. The CEO confirmed that the Matters Arising from the previous meeting were either completed or progressing. Financial Update The Trustees were given an update from the recent Finance and Development Committee Meeting.  The Trust has raised almost £800,000 33% of the funding required for the new 5-year strategy and had a good strategy ..read more

Contents Overview Background Role Your application and the recruitment process Overview The National Paralympic Heritage Trust (NPHT) has embarked on a new exciting 5-year Strategy – ‘Becoming Seamlessly Inclusive 2023-2028’. To help us on this journey we are looking for an ambitious leader wanting to advance their career, who is a strategic and creative thinker, self-motivated and able to juggle an ambitious programme of work of national significance. You will have excellent proven project management skills and the ability to lead and motivate a diverse team.   The NPHT is a young dynami ..read more

27th February 2024 Contents Overview Background Role Your application and the recruitment process Overview The National Paralympic Heritage Trust (NPHT) has embarked on a new exciting 5-year Strategy – ‘Becoming Seamlessly Inclusive 2023-2028’. To help us on this journey this is an exciting opportunity to join our team as the Trust’s Team Diversity Officer a central and key role to the 5-year strategy and as such our operation and success. We are looking for a superbly organised, self-motivated, people-led person with a commitment to inclusion and supporting diversity within the team and ideal ..read more