Even though Goals Beyond Grass is a young charity, we have reached heights we could have only dreamed of when we started. In our few years we have reached many milestones from setting up 5 competitive Powerchair teams, setting up the Outreach programme and hosting our Summer camps.

But we have now something very exciting to announce. Goals Beyond Grass has gone International!

GBG was approached by Kelly Dos Santos, Nathalie Deplace and Didier Giubergia who had seen the activities that GBG had been doing at Conferences and on social media and approached us to ask if they could take GBG to France and Switzerland.

GBG CEO Brian Dix has said “The work we have done is fairly unknown and not be done before. Powerchair Football is a young sport and mainly been played as a competitive sport. We have taken the inclusive nature of this amazing sport and taken it to other groups who are excluded from mainstream sport. For this to be taken over to Switzerland and France under our name is truly humbling.”

Goals Beyond Grass International will now take shape as they develop their own programmes but we are delghted to support them on this journey (and coming over to Geneva for training).

Didier from GBG International added “We are really happy to be part of the GBG family now and we can’t wait to be working with Brian Dix and his team on a daily basis to develop the same activities here in Switzerland but also around Europe. We would like to thank Brian for his awesome support and sharing with all of us his passion for Powerchair Football. We are already working on lots of projects and we are really pleased to announce that we will be doing very soon our first session in a nursing home. Bigger project also to come with GBG International being involved in the organisation of the 2019 GBG Geneva’s Cup, which is an awesome tournament taking place end of August in Geneva with the participation of 10 European teams.

Everybody should be able to come, see and try Powerchair Football, and this is the main goal we want to achieve every day… Lots of projects of sharing between England and Switzerland too that make it so exciting for the next years, following one and unique goal : INCLUSION”

We would formally like to welcome Didier, Natalie and Kelly to the GBG Family, it’s our honour!

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