{"id":67719,"date":"2025-05-28T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?page_id=67719"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:40:17","slug":"siobhan-fitzpatrick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/media\/meet-our-incredible-ambassadors\/siobhan-fitzpatrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense Ambassador: Siobh\u00e1n Fitzpatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Siobhan-Fitzpatrick-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing at a lectern speaking to a crowd of people.\" class=\"wp-image-67720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Siobhan-Fitzpatrick-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Siobhan-Fitzpatrick-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Siobhan-Fitzpatrick-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Siobhan-Fitzpatrick-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Siobhan-Fitzpatrick-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Siobhan-Fitzpatrick.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sense TouchBase Pears, June 21, 2022 \u00a9 Mike Pinches 2022. All Rights Reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-hs-group    margin-bottom-4xl\">\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>Siobh\u00e1n Fitzpatrick is a wheelchair basketball player who\u2019s taken home medals in the Wheelchair Basketball World Championships and European Championships. A member of the Athlete\u2019s Advisory Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a competitor in the 2020 Summer Olympics, Siobh\u00e1n also had an extensive junior career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She co-captained the women\u2019s team to back-to-back championship wins at the 2015 U25 Worlds and 2016 U24 Europeans \u2013 a feat not achieved by any other female GB junior team. Having visited her local Sense service, Sense Touchbase Pears in Selley Oak, Siobh\u00e1n has witnessed firsthand the difference the charity makes to the people it supports.\u00a0\u00a0\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-primary-tint-10 has-x-small-font-size\"><blockquote><p>Sense is a fantastic charity with 70 years\u2019 experience supporting disabled people, and I\u2019m delighted to be invited on board as an ambassador as Sense celebrates this milestone year. <br><br>It\u2019s so important that disabled people can access and connect with the world around them, and that\u2019s exactly what charities like Sense are striving towards.<\/p><cite><strong>Siobh\u00e1n Fitzpatrick<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/media\/meet-our-incredible-celebrity-ambassadors\/\">Our celebrity ambassadors.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheelchair basketball player and member of the Athlete\u2019s Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":70141,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"content_label":[],"class_list":["post-67719","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67719\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content_label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_label?post=67719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}