Accentuate

The Accentuate Programme runs or supports a variety of projects. Click on any project title and it will take you to the relevant page on the Accentuate website:

Create, Compete, Collaborate:

• Gaming! - A competition for disabled young people to design and develop an online game inspired by the story of Stoke Mandeville and the Paralympics.
• Realise! - aims to support and develop the entrepreneurial skills and inventions of young disabled people in the South East through a range of skills-based workshops, competitions and work-placements.
• Campaign! - A project to celebrate collaboration between disabled young people in the SE with those from competitor countries, as they work together to build campaigns to raise awareness on issues that affect them in their respective countries.
• Collaborations! - This project encourages new collaborations between disabled artists and athletes; inspiring young disabled people, working alongside their peers, to produce work relating to the Olympic and Paralympic values.
• Playground to Podium - is a national initiative to ensure that disabled young people have the opportunity not only to participate but to excel in sport through high class coaching.
• Youth Screen - will be an accessible, user-friendly website where disabled and deaf people (alongside non-disabled young people) can develop their creative skills through film, animation, games, videos, music and journalism.

Accessible Region

• Destination Zones - A series of audits and related training in the South East which aim to ensure that disabled people are better provided for at attractions, catering outlets, transport interchanges, accommodation providers and within key destinations.
• Creative Landscapes - Aims to commission disabled artists to explore the historic environment culminating in new ways of seeing for Heritage Open Days.  Also disabled people will steer the process of Heritage Open Days.

Lead Region

• Sync South East - A programme of continuous professional development for selected artists and organisations in the region to ignite disabled leadership and to increase sustainability.
• Fest - Is a programme of showcase activities designed to raise the profile and increase the networks of more than 15 regional deaf and disabled artists.
• Go Public - Will develop opportunities for interventions by individual disabled and deaf artists and groups in the public realm to complement 2012
• Major Events - A project which aims to attract world renowned disability sporting events to the South East.

Paralympic Region

• Paralympic Region - This project will develop and improve access, both physical and intellectual, to Stoke Mandeville’s historic archive and histories of individual Paralympic athletes, in order to foster public understanding of the story of disability in the region.

Celebrate and Commission

• Celebrate - Will aim to ensure that the message of the Cultural Olympiad reaches the public and influences change in cultural provision over the four year celebration and beyond. 
• Commission - This project will develop and commission work, networks and professional development opportunities which ensure equity of access throughout the Cultural Olympiad.