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On this webpage you will find a number of examples of projects that have promoted equity in sport. They range in size, from major national organisations to initiatives carried out by individuals in after school clubs. However, they have all been chosen as examples of best practice due to their success in decreasing inequality in sport, in relation to disability, gender, race, and other traditionally excluded groups in society.
Please use the introductions provided to find the most relevant example of best practice, and then click on the link to view the case study in full.
If you are aware of any further projects that have successfully tackled inequalities in sport, and which you believe should be shared in terms of best practice, please contact us at: robert.cade@sportengland.org
BME Sports Mentoring Project
This case study explores how Voice East Midlands increased Black and Minority Ethnic projects participation in the sports system and specifically the “Awards for All” funding process by training mentors as advocates of the programmes. In a groundbreaking move these mentors were specifically “head hunted” for their previous experience of working with BME communities and were then given “sports development” training.
View case study for the BME Sports Mentoring Project (Word)
Further Information about Voice East Midlands can be found at: www.voice-em.org.uk
Cricket For All
The English Cricket Board’s anti-exclusion initiative. This site includes links to anti-racism and social inclusion projects and news about individual case studies ranging from after school clubs to national volunteering schemes.
View case study www.ecb.co.uk/ecb/cricket-for-all/
Enterprising Women in the Business of Sport
Sport England East Midlands and the East Midlands Development Agency have worked together to highlight examples of the strong roles women can play in sport as role models for the younger generation. The case studies are wide-ranging from Ellen MacArthur to Chanda Chawhan, who organises walking groups in Leicester Parks after being encouraged by her doctor to walk more to combat her arthritis.
View case study for Enterprising Women in the Business of Sport (PDF)
Fit Active Braunstone
Sport England funded “Fit Active Braunstone” to place sport at the very heart of the most deprived ward in the East Midlands and encourage its residents to get more physically active. The project specifically targets the most isolated and excluded individuals, asking them for their own views as to what barriers stop their sporting participation and then providing individual mentors to help remove them. This case study has proved to be so successful at encouraging people from a deprived background to participate in sport, that it now has a waiting list for participation.
View case study for Fit Active Braunstone (PDF)
Football For All
The Football Association’s initiative to ensure “everyone has a chance to be involved in football, regardless of ability, race, or religion”. This site provides information and news updates on projects that aim to create equity in football by tackling the inequalities of “Race”, “Disability”, “Social Inclusion”, and “Homophobia”.
View case study www.thefa.com/footballforall
Football Unites Racism Divides
This case study focuses on a successful long-term project being run in Sheffield by Football Unites Racism Divides, in partnership with Millennium Volunteers, to increase Black and Minority Ethnic involvement in football. It provides some strong examples of best practice, in particular demonstrating the benefits of working in partnership with external organisations, and in having volunteers, as well as participants, from diverse backgrounds.
View case study for Football Unites Racism Divides (Word)
Further information about Football Unites Racism Divides can be found at: www.furd.org/mv/index.html
Girls In Sport
The Youth Sport Trust and Nike have formed the Girls in Sport partnership to try and encourage more secondary aged girls to participate in sport. As part of this programme “Examples of Practice” has recently been produced to examine the increase in female participation at schools that have attended the Girls in Sport workshops. The case studies are wide-ranging and include; “starting point”, “actions”, “impact”, and “future goals”. They concentrate on how a number of practices have been implemented to increase female participation, including:
- A wider-range and choice of sport, with the focus on more practical and less competitive sports.
- Furthering the use of positive role models.
- Promoting sporting achievement.
- Improving facilities and sports kit.
- Expanding links with external sports clubs.
- Integrating able-bodied and disabled girls’ sport.
View case study for Girls in Sport (PDF)
Further information about the Girls In Sport project can be found at: www.youthsporttrust.org/yst_top_other_gis.html
Inclusive Sport
“Inclusive Sport” is the national magazine of the English Federation of Disability Sport. The magazines include reports on best practice in:
- Building facilities and providing equipment for aspiring disabled athletes.
- Training staff and coaches.
- Encouraging sporting activities at special needs schools.
- Promoting extra-curricular sports clubs.
- Creating an inclusive PE Curriculum.
- Rewarding achievement.
The current layout of the site means that it is necessary to search through a number of articles to find a specific case study. However, it is planned to create a new page by February 2006 specifically to provide access to case studies of local projects that have successfully increased activity in sport amongst disabled participants.
View case study: of the Inclusive Sport Magazine
Leicester Racial Equality and Sports Project
In 1999 Leicester was chosen as the host city for a new showcase project, its aim being to increase the opportunities for the minority communities to take part and excel in sport. Now in its fifth year the Leicester Racial Equality and Sports Project has gained an international standing in terms of exemplifying best practice in combining sport and social enterprise. In particular the project has been extremely successful in building capacity for BME communities in sport by working in partnership with public and private organisations to influence the policies and agendas of a wide range of key agencies. This annual report provides case studies of how these partnerships have benefited individual projects.
Case Study coming soon
Further information about the Leicester Racial and Equality Sports Project can be found at: www.lrec.org.uk/LRESP.htm
Leicester Racial Equality Council Posters
An example of the posters created by the Leicester Racial Equality Council in a successful campaign to promote diversity amongst participants and volunteers in sport.
View case study for examples of Leicester Racial Equality Council Posters (Word)
My Time, My Choice
“My Time, My Choice” is an initiative that was launched in 2003 by the London Sports Forum for Disabled People to tackle the high levels of exclusion from sport experienced amongst people with learning disability. This case study clearly charts the aims of the project, how the barriers to activity were recognised through consultation, and how “organisations have been empowered to put positive change into place”. The project is groundbreaking as it provided people with learning disability the entitlement to shape the course of the initiative, rather than relying upon the views of their carers or support workers.
View case study for My Time, My Choice (PDF)
Further information about the London Sports Forum for Disabled People can be found at: www.londonsportsforum.org.uk
“One Small Step” Project
Information on a highly successful project run by the English Federation of Disability Sport, and the Department for Education and Skills to provide out of hours sporting opportunities for pupils in special schools and disabled pupils receiving education in mainstream schools. This case study examines the Loughborough scheme and focuses on how the aims of the project were put in to action and its impact.
View case study for "One Small Step" (Word)
Sporting Chance
This article focuses on how Westminster Council has tackled anti-social behaviour by giving the most socially excluded inhabitants the chance to join its “trailblazing sports vocational programme”. Society Guardian chose this project as an example of best practice as it shows how an enthusiastic individual can make a significant contribution to their local community through the use of sport.
View case study for Sporting Chance (Word)
What Works For Women
A very informative new website created by Women in Sport, which has numerous case studies of best practice. The examples are based around projects that provide women and girls with greater access to sport, but also includes “BME women or girls”, “people with disabilities” and “socially excluded” as its targeted participants. The site provides the ability to search the case studies by criteria including “Barriers overcome”, “Target audience”, and “target type”, thus providing easy access to the most relevant project.
View case study www.whatworksforwomen.org.uk
Further information about The Women’s Sport Foundation can be found at: www.wsf.org.uk
Women and Girls Project
This toolkit was created with the aim “to increase participation of Women and Girls in Sport” by specifically exemplifying sustainable practices that encourage greater female sporting participation in schools and communities in Nottinghamshire. It provides examples of how barriers to female participation can be overcome with specific case studies of how community sport taster days can be arranged.
View case study of the Women and Girls Project (PDF)
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