Paralympic Heritage Centre activities and events

Design your own Paralympic poster workshop

Thursday 8th August 2.30pm to 3.30pm at the National Paralympic Heritage Centre.

Come and take part in some drawing, tracing, cutting and sticking craft activities in the Heritage Centre this summer whilst learning about the posters from past Paralympic Games. For more information and to book your place visit the event page here.

Paralympic Heritage Centre letter hunt

If you’re visiting the Paralympic Heritage Centre during the summer holidays remember it is FREE to enter and packed full of the objects that tell the story of the Games.  Young children can try out our letter hunt to discover something about the next chapter in our world famous local history.  Suitable for 5 years and up. Click on this link to download the fact sheet.

Family fun activities at home

This summer we commemorate and celebrate Paralympic events gone by as we look forward to the Paris 2024 Paralympics!

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Dr Guttmann and the D-Day landings

The part Stoke Mandeville played after the D-Day landings is perhaps little known.  Read our fact sheet to find out the difference Dr Guttmann and his team made to the lives of service men and women 80 years ago. Suitable for 8 years and up. Click on this link to download the fact sheet.

Stoke Mandeville 1984 Games Q&A with Paralympian Paul Cartwright

As we anticipate the excitement of the Paris 2024 Games we look back 40 years to the Games that changed everything and reflect on how the people of Aylesbury and Buckinghamshire had a lasting impact on the future of the Paralympic Games. Suitable for 8 years and up. Click on this link to download the Q&A sheet.

Paralympic sports day activities

Paris 2024 is just around the corner and everyone is included in our new improved Sports Day at Home resource with warm ups and adaptations for manual and electric wheelchair users, blind and partially sighted participants and the deaf and hard of hearing community.  Why not send us pictures of your Paralympic sports day at home this summer to: [email protected]  Click on this link to view and download the sports day activities.

Paris 2024 Paralympic widgit sheet

Learn the name of the next Paralympic mascot whilst practising your handwriting skills with our PARIS 2024 celebration Widgit sheet. Suitable for 5 years and up. 

Click on this link to download the Widgit handwriting sheet.


Additional family fun activities

Paralympic sports activities and craft

Designed for children to engage in some fun activities while learning about the history of the Paralympic Games.

Chatterbox activity

Sharing our Treasure

Explore objects in our Paralympic collection with Shaun Finegan, volunteer at the National Paralympic Heritage Trust

Volunteer, Shaun Finegan talking about Paralympic torches

Storytime with April

Storytime for children under 5 read by April Byrne, volunteer at the National Paralympic Heritage Trust, with BSL interpretation by Marie Biswell.

April Byrne, volunteer at NPHT reading books for Story time

What's in our Paralympic collection?

Watch our series of Paralympic heritage collection videos

Video of Vicky Hope Walker describing objects from the Paralympic handling collection


Highlights from family fun events at the Paralympic Heritage Centre

   

  

  

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Paralympic poster ideas created by children visiting Family Fun Day at the Paralympic Heritage CentreParalympic athlete poster ideas created by children visiting Family Fun Day at the Paralympic Heritage CentreParalympic medal ideas created by children visiting Family Fun Day at the Paralympic Heritage CentreParalympic athlete poster ideas created by children visiting Family Fun Day at the Paralympic Heritage Centre