Inclusion and community are the core ideas driving the latest instalment of the Dubbo Breakthru Regional Ability Athletics Carnival.
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The disability athletics event, which runs from 9am to 3pm at Barden Park on October 23, is a community event organised by Breakthru in order to give people with disabilities the opportunity to partipicate in the sports they're passionate about.
Senior Support Worker Nikki Daley says the event lets their clients participate in a number of athletics events.
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"We're running a disability athletics carnival so that people with a disability feel included in their community," Daley said.
"They should be given that chance to experience everything that everyone else does, so that's the basic idea around it."
"We'll have events from running races, javelin, shot put, wheelchair races along with some novelty events, tug-o-war, egg and spoon races, things like that, it's a great day."
Daley says that making Breakthru's clients feel included is incredibly important to their work, and that they missed out on participating in the youth disability athletics carnival held in Barden Park earlier in the year only due to scheduling.
"Little Athletics Australia, who ran the youth carnival, they've come onboard and they're helping us get organised with this athletics carnival,"
"Mick Gardiner, who organised that event, he's been really good, he's helped us with it, along with all our sponsors."
"There's a lot of local businesses that have contributed, it's a community event."
While Breakthru has held the event before, Daley says that the organisation has 'quite a few' customers who enjoy sport, and that the original idea was created in order to meet that need.
"Originally it came from sitting down with our customers and discussing the things that they liked to do and they mentioned that they really wanted to do running and long-jump and the javelin, all those athletics carnival events that they used to do at school."
Daley says there's an open invitation to those who might want to compete and that 'anyone who wants to attend' is welcome.