19 May 2023

Sport and Recreation Alliance announces partnership with EDI specialists Equality Leaders

Sport and Recreation Alliance announces partnership with EDI specialists Equality Leaders news article image

The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to announce Equality Leaders as the organisation’s new equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) partner.

Equality Leaders’ mission is to support organisations in delivering impactful ED&I outcomes critical to their sustainable and commercial success. They take a disruptive, innovative and compassionate approach led by evidence-based insights to focus on building thriving futures for the communities we live in, work with, and serve. 

They deliver sustainable ED&I solutions to help organisations become more diverse, inclusive and impactful, by offering consulting, bespoke learning experiences, and events, a number of which will be available to Alliance members.

As Alliance members, your first opportunity to meet our ED&I partner is at a free 60-minute webinar being hosted on Thursday 29 June – sign up here and find details below:

  • Title: The Effective & Impactful ED&I Strategy
  • Facilitators: Tim Hardy-Lenik and Minaxi Mistry
  • About: This introductory webinar offers insight into core considerations when building an impactful strategy. It focuses on the critical components required to create a sustainable ED&I Strategy that ensures ED&I is embedded into both business and leadership.
  • Learnings:
      • How do we build the core components of a DEI strategy?

      • How can we embed ED&I into business and leadership?

    • How do we balance tokenism and meaningful action?

The session will be led by Tim Hardy-Lenik, Non-Executive Director at Equality Leaders, with over a decade of experience affecting diversity, equity and inclusion change in different industries; and Minaxi Mistry, founder and CEO of Equality Leaders, who has been instrumental in designing and delivering inclusion strategies across the public and private sector.

Lisa Wainwright MBE, CEO of the Sport and Recreation Alliance said:

“We’re delighted to be able to partner with Equality Leaders, who are such a prestigious organisation involved in improving equality, diversity and inclusion.

“We recognise that this is a vitally important area for many of our members, and hope they will be able to benefit from some of the fantastic opportunities Equality Leaders will be making available across the course of our partnership.”

Founder and CEO of Equality Leaders, Minaxi Mistry commented saying ''Through this collaboration, we are incredibly honoured to partner with the Alliance and their members to support them in enabling impactful change across their communities. This partnership is an opportunity for us to work together towards making sport and recreation more inclusive and accessible for everybody.”

Latest News

10 Jul 2025

New Alliance Protect Where We Play campaign launches to highlight risks to playing fields, pitches and sports facilities from proposed planning reforms

New research shows playing fields and pitches deliver at least £2bn in improved wellbeing every year and help keep almost 4 million people active, including 1 million children.

Read more Arrow Right
4 Jul 2025

Policy and Advocacy Update: NHS 10 Year Plan and more

Below we provide an update on a number of our current policy-related workstreams, from the announcement of the NHS 10 Year Plan, to a number of additional issues - including planning reforms, the EHRC consultation on gender, Select and APPG inquiries into Healthy Ageing, and Access to Nature.

Read more Arrow Right
20 Jun 2025

Alliance responds as more details announced from Government following its Spending Review

The Sport and Recreation Alliance welcomes Government’s commitment to investing in community sport, recreation and physical activity, and its recognition of the social and economic value it provides.

Read more Arrow Right

Become a member

Joining the Sport and Recreation Alliance is pretty simple, but worthwhile!

Register now

Our Partners

Admincontrol logoAir IT logoGateley Legal logoSport:80 logoZellar logo93FT logo