Sheffield based Stephen Harrison Academy is bringing snooker to hundreds of disabled players
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00:00It all started for me with this man here, that's my father, with his gold medal in 1985.
00:06He won that in Stoke Mandeville.
00:08My father, you know, had to find a new sport.
00:11He lost his leg at 17.
00:13He was a footballer.
00:15So he had to find a new sport.
00:17So he went into rehabilitation at Lodgemore Hospital.
00:20He found snooker and introduced many wheelchair players to the sport.
00:23But what my job is now, since my father's passed away, I'm kind of growing his legacy to get more and more people involved at Grassroots Sport in Sheffield.
00:34This wonderful game of snooker, the home of the World Snooker Championship.
00:39It's very important for us to keep doing this work, bringing the community together, introducing new people to snooker at all levels, all ages and abilities.
00:49We've got his youngest member at eight years old and his oldest member at 93.
00:54It's in April.
00:55Everybody snook, snook, snooker.
00:57But we're doing it all year round.
00:58It's not just a game of snooker.
01:00It's everything.
01:01And it's coming and just being able to take your mind off the daily stresses of life and everything and come see your friends and just have a chat and a knockabout.
01:09And also, what I'm very proud about is half of our workforce have got disabilities.
01:15So these are young kids what's come up through the service, being trained out of the snooker coaches and then the academy employ them to teach the skills what they've learned over the years to a new group of learners.