Special Olympics St Albans (SOSA)

Special Olympics St Albans (SOSA) is a charity offering children and adults with a learning disability weekly sporting opportunities and access to competition.  SOSA has created a community for people from the St Albans and surrounding areas to regularly take part in sport, to stay fit and to have FUN!  Through sport our coaches and amazing volunteers are able to engage with our athletes, to foster friendship and build a community for the athletes and their wider families and carers.  We love to celebrate our athletes achievements and to encourage inclusion in our sporting and social events throughout the year.

This year is even more special for our athletes, as on the 26th-30th August some of our athletes will be taking part in the Special Olympics National Summer Games 2026.  This is an opportunity for the athletes to showcase their skills, and come together to shine and win a medal along the way.

We want to take as many of our athletes as we can to celebrate their achievements in sport with their community.  We hope to take 20 athletes, together with the coaches, staff and volunteers.  We are busy raising funds to cover the cost of entry which is £100 per athlete, coach and carer and to cover the accommodation costs of our amazing volunteer coaches who are taking time off work to be there.  There will also be a cost for transport to and from the venue and during the event itself.

Our fundraising goal is £10,000, the more we raise the more we can pass on to our athletes as we would hate finance to be a barrier to attendance.  We know that times are tough and there are so many amazing charities like ours, all doing fantastic work and looking for funding.

We will be forever grateful for any amount you are able to spare - as a certain advert says so well "every little helps".

From all of our athletes, and all of us at SOSA - THANK YOU.