Congratulations to Howard Darbon, who won the Contribution to Wheelchair Racing award at England Athletics’ East Region Volunteer Award evening.
The citation for the award explains how Howard initially came up with the idea for a wheelchair racing section at Bedford and County after a wheelchair charity race at the stadium, and then inaugurated the section with two coaches and one athlete in 2018.  The wheelchair racing group now has 8 athletes - all with racing chairs- and a storage shed, and last year Howard obtained further funding for two professional wheelchair racing chairs.

The Wheelchair racing section is one of the only disability sports clubs in the Bedfordshire area, and has given people in the local area a chance to try out wheelchair racing for the first time as well as to experience athletics competitions, progress and make friends.
The award recognizes that Howard's hard work has given athletes from Bedford the chance to represent Great Britain internationally.
See https://www.englandathletics.org/news/east-region-volunteer-award-evening/ for the full details of Howard’s award.