Hogan Lovells awards 10 Nicholas Cheffings Para Athlete Bursaries for 2024

Hogan Lovells is delighted to announce it has selected ten Para athletes to receive a Nicholas Cheffings Para Athlete Bursary for 2024. Now in its seventh year, each bursary will provide financial support to help Para athletes achieve success in their chosen sport as they look to secure selection to the ParalympicsGB team for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games this summer.

Recipients can apply these funds to any aspect of their sporting development including additional coaching, transportation to training camps and competitions and nutrition and equipment.

The 2024 Nicholas Cheffings Para Athlete Bursary recipients are:

· Alison Peasgood, Para triathlon

· Claire Taggart, Boccia

· Fran Brown, Para cycling

· Grace Harvey, Para swimming

· Nathan Maguire, Para Athletics;

· Natasha Baker OBE, Para Equestrian

· Oluwafunmilola Oduwaiye, Para Athletics

· Piers Gilliver, Wheelchair fencing

· Zak Skinner, Para Athletics

· Zac Shaw, Para Athletics

2023 bursary recipient Samantha Kinghorn commented on how receiving this award helped her achieve her goals in 2023: “I’m so grateful to the Nicholas Cheffings Para Athlete bursary. The bursary helped me with my travel expenses to qualification races and to go on warm weather training trips. Without the bursary I wouldn’t have been able to achieve what I did last year, becoming world champion.”

In addition to supporting individual Para athletes through the Nicholas Cheffings bursaries, Hogan Lovells is also a Gold Partner and the Official Legal Services Provider to ParalympicsGB through the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, providing continued legal support to the organisation across a variety of areas. In 2020 this included critical support on the impact of COVID-19 and the rescheduling of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games which took place in 2021.

Hogan Lovells UK Managing Partner, Penny Angell, said: “We are very proud of our long-standing relationship with ParalympicsGB and knowing that these bursaries are helping to support athletes in their ambitions to compete at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. This support reflects our strong commitment to championing diversity, inclusion and equality and we look forward to supporting ParalympicsGB and our Para athletes as they continue to achieve their aspirations and goals, hopefully including Paris later this year.”