The Steadward Centre For Personal & Physical Achievement

What The Steadward Centre For Personal & Physical Achievement does

The Steadward Centre for Personal & Physical Achievement is a unit within the University of Alberta, founded in 1978 and based in Edmonton, Canada. Its stated mission is to actively support inclusion and independence for children, youth, and adults — in practice, an applied research, education, and service centre focused on adapted physical activity for people with disabilities, situated within the university's Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation. The Centre's work is delivered through the academic and outreach infrastructure of the University of Alberta rather than as a standalone commercial operation, and it maintains a documented partnership relationship with the Canadian Paralympic Committee (recorded in 2022 and 2023).

No product, technology, pricing, revenue, headcount, or commercial-customer data is disclosed in the available input. The Centre is classified as for-profit in firmographic metadata, but its operational embedding within a public university, the absence of disclosed commercial activity, and the structure of the recorded relationships (which show $0 disclosed transaction value with the Canadian Paralympic Committee) are consistent with a non-commercial academic and community-service unit rather than a revenue-generating enterprise. For investment analysis purposes it is treated as an institutional/academic asset without a meaningful commercial revenue stream, and any assessment of moat, growth, or expansion is necessarily limited by the thinness of the underlying data.

Name

The Steadward Centre For Personal & Physical Achievement

Website

https://ualberta.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Short description

The Steadward Centre is a 1978-founded University of Alberta unit in Edmonton that supports inclusion and independence for children, youth, and adults through adapted physical activity programs, in partnership with the Canadian Paralympic Committee.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Adaptive Physical Activity Services

NAICS

Sports and Recreation Instruction (61162), Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (71394), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (62431)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Adaptive & Para-Sport Training Programs (MPAKAJAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Rehabilitation Return-to-Exercise Training (Non-Clinical) (HSADAAAK), Adaptive & Special Needs Personal Training (HSADAAAL), Sports Medicine, Athletic Training & Rehabilitation Services (EDALAIAH), Strength & Conditioning / Performance Training (EDALAIAI)

Keywords

• Adaptive physical activity
• Disability inclusion services
• Paralympic sport development
• Rehabilitation research programs
• Inclusive recreation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Edmonton

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

The Steadward Centre For Personal & Physical Achievement delivers adaptive physical activity, sport, and personal development programs designed to support inclusion and independence for children, youth, and adults. It operates as a University of Alberta-affiliated centre providing research, education, and program services in the area of disability and Paralympic sport.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Move United (formerly Disabled Sports USA): A national non-profit network delivering adaptive sport and recreation programming through local chapters across the U.S.; comparable as a federated adaptive-sport services organization serving children, youth, and adults.
• Canadian Paralympic Committee: The national governing body for Paralympic sport in Canada and a direct funding/operational partner of the Steadward Centre; comparable as the apex adaptive-sport organization that the centre feeds into and competes with for national recognition.
• Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago / Shirley Ryan AbilityLab: A leading academic rehabilitation hospital that integrates sports and adaptive physical activity programming; overlaps with Steadward in the rehab-to-sport continuum and university-medical-center delivery model.

Regional players

• Variety Village: A Toronto-area charitable fitness and sports complex explicitly designed for people of all abilities; comparable as a Canadian adaptive fitness centre serving children and adults, though geographically separate from Edmonton.
• Canadian Disability Hall of Fame / Abilities Centre (Whitby): A Canadian adaptive sport, recreation, and research facility serving people with disabilities through fitness, programming, and research; analogous in mission and participant base but operating in Ontario.

Direct peers

• BlazeSports America: A non-profit focused on adaptive sport and inclusive physical activity for youth and adults with physical disabilities; closest peer in mission and program portfolio.
• Lakeshore Foundation: A Birmingham, Alabama-based non-profit that delivers adaptive sport, fitness, and rehabilitation programming on a university-like campus; highly comparable mission, operating model, and participant population to the Steadward Centre.
• Wheelchair & Ambulatory Sports, USA: A non-profit governing multiple adaptive sports and supporting athlete development in the U.S.; parallels the Canadian Paralympic Committee role and shares target athletes and programming with the Steadward Centre.

Emerging players

• National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD): A public-health-aligned resource hub promoting physical activity for people with disabilities; overlaps with the Steadward Centre in audience and intent but operates as an information/network organization rather than a bricks-and-mortar training centre.
• Active Wellbeing for All (Special Olympics resources) / Special Olympics Canada: A national sport organization delivering year-round training and competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities; partial-overlap peer in adaptive sport training and competition pathway.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/steadwardcentre
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/university-of-alberta

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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