Sport and Recreation Alliance announces partnership with EDI specialists Equality Leaders

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.”

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