Doing sports with a disability
Everybody should be able to exercise and do sports. Whether you are young or old, you have a handicap or you are chronically ill. The Beweegloket helps residents of The Hague with a disability find a sport or physical activity which is suitable for them.
Exercising regularly has a positive influence on your health. It improves your condition and helps to expand your social network.
How does it work?
Do you have a disability and would you like to exercise or do sports? Then you can search online for a suitable sport or physical activity. Not sure where you should begin? The Beweegloket will give you free advice.
Find a sport or activity
- Go to Begin external link: www.unieksporten.nl(External link), end external link..
- Indicate what kind of disability you have and your preferences.
- See which activities are available.
Advice from the Beweegloket
The Beweegloket will provide you with free assistance to find a suitable physical activity. The Beweegloket helps people with a hearing or visual impairment as well as with people with impaired motor skills or intellectual, psychosocial or chronic disabilities. Or if you are grossly overweight.
Go to the Begin external link: website of the Beweegloket(External link), end external link. to contact the start the process. Or send an email to Begin link: beweegloketdenhaag@unieksporten.nl, end link. .
Special sports equipment
Do you need special equipment to be able to exercise and do sports? You might be eligible for compensation or a discount. You can Begin link: apply for Wmo support, end link. .
Are you unsure if the sport or exercise is right for you? Then you can first borrow the special sport equipment from the Begin external link: Mobilitheek(External link), end external link. and try it out for a short time.
More information
- Sport clubs can get advice on doing sports with a disability. Go to Begin link: Advies aan sportverenigingen, end link. (in Dutch).
- Would you like to know what else the municipality is doing to make sports and exercise possible for people with a disability? Send an email to Begin link: sportsupport@denhaag.nl, end link. .