Freedom Sports Foundation

We 🩵 Tuesday's a Corio. Get down and join us this afternoon for some active fun.

🎙️ Today on Freedom Radio

Today Hendo welcomes Loz and Kate (aka Miss Snip Snip) from All Aboard disABILITY Support Services.

Together, they're creating opportunities, building confidence and fostering genuine inclusion for people with disability across the Surf Coast and beyond.

Join Hendo, Loz and Kate as they chat about:

💙 The incredible work of All Aboard disABILITY Support Services, supporting people with disability to live life their way through personalised supports and community participation.
☕ The story behind Tori’s Place and how an inclusive café can change lives through meaningful employment, connection and community.
🌱 Their vision for creating communities where everyone belongs and has the opportunity to thrive.
🤝 Why collaboration, inclusion and lived experience are at the heart of everything they do.

It's a conversation about people, purpose and the power of saying yes to opportunities.

📻 Freedom Radio
🗓️ Today
🕓 4:00pm – 5:00pm
📍 94.7 The Pulse https://947thepulse.com/shows/freedom-radio

Tune in for another inspiring episode celebrating the people and organisations making a real difference in our communities.

Closes tomorrow.... time to get it in 🔔

This Saturday, We Can't Wait 🙌🏽

Veterans, serving members & Defence families.... come and give adaptive sport a go! 🏀🏉

Freedom Sports Foundation is proud to partner with Invictus Australia to bring a
Veteran & Family Adaptive Sports Introduction to Seymour.

This is all about getting together, having a go and experiencing adaptive sport in a
safe, fun and inclusive environment. Have an afternoon of family fun and connect with others.

Come and try:
🏀 Wheelchair Basketball
🏉 Wheelchair Footy

You don’t need to be an athlete. You don’t need experience. And you certainly don’t need to be a wheelchair user.

Just come along and have a go!

📅 Saturday 22 August 2026
⏰ 1:00pm – 4:00pm
📍 Seymour Sports & Aquatic Centre, Pollard Street, Seymour VIC
👥 Open to the Defence community - serving, former serving and family members.

We’d love to see plenty of Defence families from Seymour, Puckapunyal and across the surrounding region join us.

Places are available now. Register https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/veteran-and-family-adaptive-sports-introduction-seymour-vic-tickets-1996938089582?aff=oddtdtcreator

See. Believe. Dream. Achieve.

Veteran and Family Adaptive Sports Introduction - Seymour, VIC Introduction to inclusive and accessible sporting opportunities such as wheelchair footy and wheelchair basketball.

Don't forget to tune in today at 4pm 🎙️

https://947thepulse.com/show-schedule/

🎙️ Coming up on Freedom Radio 🎙️

It's a huge show this Monday as Hendo is joined by two incredible guests who are making a real difference in the world of disability, adaptive sport and community.

🥇 Leanne Del Toso – Paralympian, Australian representative and one of Australia's leading advocates for adaptive sport. Leanne joins Hendo to share her incredible journey, life as a Paralympian, the growth of wheelchair sport in Australia, and why creating opportunities for the next generation of athletes matters more than ever.

🤝 Toni Cumpston – Director, Community Participation and Impact at Invictus Australia. Toni joins us to discuss the exciting community partnership between Invictus Australia and Freedom Sports Foundation, and our first joint adaptive sports activation taking place in Seymour on Saturday 22 August. Together, we'll explore how sport creates connection, improves wellbeing, and supports veterans, serving personnel and their families through community participation.

It's an inspiring hour of conversation celebrating resilience, leadership, inclusion and the power of sport to change lives.

📻 Freedom Radio
🗓️ Monday 17/8/26
🕓 4:00pm – 5:00pm
📍 94.7 The Pulse https://947thepulse.com/show-schedule/

Don't miss it!

Its the BIG DANCE for our founder Hendo and many of our coaches tomorrow. And a gf final game for our awesome juniors... so come and cheer everyone on or watch it live via the Victorian Wheelchair Football League page.

Good luck to all the players and teams 🙌🏽

🎙️ Coming up on Freedom Radio 🎙️

It's a huge show this Monday as Hendo is joined by two incredible guests who are making a real difference in the world of disability, adaptive sport and community.

🥇 Leanne Del Toso – Paralympian, Australian representative and one of Australia's leading advocates for adaptive sport. Leanne joins Hendo to share her incredible journey, life as a Paralympian, the growth of wheelchair sport in Australia, and why creating opportunities for the next generation of athletes matters more than ever.

🤝 Toni Cumpston – Director, Community Participation and Impact at Invictus Australia. Toni joins us to discuss the exciting community partnership between Invictus Australia and Freedom Sports Foundation, and our first joint adaptive sports activation taking place in Seymour on Saturday 22 August. Together, we'll explore how sport creates connection, improves wellbeing, and supports veterans, serving personnel and their families through community participation.

It's an inspiring hour of conversation celebrating resilience, leadership, inclusion and the power of sport to change lives.

📻 Freedom Radio
🗓️ Monday 17/8/26
🕓 4:00pm – 5:00pm
📍 94.7 The Pulse https://947thepulse.com/show-schedule/

Don't miss it!

We are so excited for Sunday! Its GF day and we hope you can get down to see us.

Juniors will face off in their final at 12noon, come down and bring a friend. We would love to see you there!

And good luck to everyone in all the GF's 💥🙌🏽💥

We’re heading to MOVE VIC 2026!

We’re excited to share that Freedom Sports Foundation has been selected to present at the Active Education Australia Annual Conference at Monash University this November!

Our Founder, Hendo and Interim Chair, Founding Director and Company Secretary, Nic Paramanis will deliver the practical workshop:

💥 From Empathy to Action: Practical Strategies for Disability Inclusion Through Movement and Sport

At Freedom, we believe inclusion is something you need to see, experience and do - not just talk about.

So this won’t be your typical conference presentation!

We’ll be bringing the equipment, getting people moving and using adaptive sport and lived experience to demonstrate practical ways educators can create greater understanding, participation and belonging for students of all abilities.

We’re really looking forward to sharing what we’ve learned through Freedom’s work in schools and communities and, most importantly, getting everyone involved!

📅 25–26 November 2026
📍 Monash University, Victoria

See you at MOVE! 🙌

See. Believe. Dream. Achieve.

🏫 Term 4 Sporting Schools funding is NOW OPEN! 🏀♿

Bring disability inclusion to life at your school with a Freedom Sports Foundation hands-on, lived-experience activation.

♿ Experience adaptive and wheelchair sports

💙 Learn directly from people with lived experience

🙌 Build empathy, teamwork and inclusion through doing

🏫 Suitable for primary and secondary schools

✅ Eligible for Sporting Schools funding
And we’ve made applying easier too!

See it. Believe it. Dream it. Achieve it.

https://www.freedomsportsfoundation.com.au