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Thank you for joining Team WheelPower for the 2026 London Marathon
Whether you have a charity place or your own place, you are all part of our team. By taking part in the London Marathon and fundraising, you will be transforming the lives of physically disabled children and newly injured adults, like Josh, Jack and Rosie.
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Josh
Jack
12-year-old Jack from Tooting, Southwest London has Cerebral Palsy and in June he travelled to Stoke Mandeville Stadium, birthplace of the Paralympic movement for the 2025 National Junior Games, one of WheelPower’s flagship events, along with his dad, Mark.
When talking to Jack about what his favourite aspects of the games were, three things came up. He liked seeing the friends he made last year, really enjoyed wheelchair rugby and particularly liked archery this year, thanks to the specialist equipment they had which really made the sport more accessible to Jack. It is important to add that Jack even gave a special shout out to the cooked breakfast… he loved those!
For Jack and his dad, the National junior Games gave them a great opportunity to spend some quality, father, son time together away from the day-to-day grind of everyday life, a benefit of the games that wasn’t lost on Mark.
Mark goes on to say:
The National Junior Games have really opened Jack up to so many different sports. There are loads of opportunities and everything is so positive – everything is you can do it!
Rosie
After sustaining a Spinal Cord Injury in October 2022, Rosie, a 32-year-old teacher from Southend-On-Sea, was given the opportunity to take part in the 2024 Inter Spinal Unit Games with the team from the London Spinal Cord Injury Centre, Stanmore. Having always been sporty prior to injury, she was keen to take part.
Of the 20+ sports on offer, Rosie experienced lots of new things and discovered talents for sports she didn’t know she had. Although Rosie ultimately won the Women’s Para Table Tennis competition, Wheelchair Basketball and Para Rowing were the two sports that really captured Rosie’s interest. You couldn’t keep the team from Stanmore away from the Wheelchair Basketball!
We loved doing the wheelchair basketball… and playing a sport again where you feel like you’re getting out of breath and working hard… Physio is important, but you don’t get that breathless, exhilarated feeling that you get if you have just played a game of football for example.
Post games, Rosie has continued her sporting journey by taking up Wheelchair Basketball with Stanmore based London Titans and has recently received a grant which will not only allow Rosie to purchase her own sports chair but will also enable her to restart the school Basketball and Badminton clubs she delivered prior to injury.
Josh, Jack and Rosie's stories are just three examples of the transformative effect that WheelPower's work has on those with a physical disability and by taking part in the London Marathon, you too can help transform the lives of disabled people through movement, activity and sport.