The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to announce that the recently named “most influential woman in sport” is the latest confirmed speaker at its 2015 Leadership Convention.
Barbara Slater OBE is Director of Sport at the BBC, a position she has held since 2009.
Her responsibilities include working with governing bodies to retain a broad portfolio of broadcasting rights, overseeing the planning and coverage of major sporting events and leading the sports journalism operation at BBC Sport.
In 2012, Barbara was responsible for the BBC’s cross-platform sports coverage of the London Olympic Games - the most watched TV event in UK broadcasting history. Barbara was awarded the ‘Inspirational Woman Prize’ at the Women in Film and Television Awards in recognition of this achievement and has since been appointed as an expert to the International Olympic Committee Radio and Television Commission for 2014.
Barbara was also recently named as the most influential woman in sport in a list compiled by the Independent on Sunday.
At the Convention, Barbara will highlight some of the challenges she thinks sport, and its leadership, face in the future and will focus on the way that sport can and should be engaging with the media and broadcasters to help address some of those issues.
She will also look at the work of the ‘Be Inspired’ campaign and the role coverage of major sporting events can play, as well as including some more personal reflections from her time in sport.
Barbara joins an impressive list of speakers already confirmed for this year’s Convention, which includes Alastair Campbell, National Trust Director General Dame Helen Ghosh and former DG of the Prison Service, Sir Martin Narey. The Convention takes place at the Crowne Plaza, Nottingham on the 3-4 November.
To find out more and book your space, click here.
As part of the Sport and Recreation Alliance’s 90th anniversary celebrations, nine young people have been recognised as future sector leaders in a special Youth Edition of the organisation’s annual Community Sport and Recreation Awards.
Read more
The Sport and Recreation Alliance celebrated its 90th anniversary at St James’s Palace, where members also gathered for the organisation’s 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM), chaired by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
Read more
Today’s publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report sets out a series of wide ranging recommendations for reform of the national curriculum and in particular to the teaching of physical education (PE) and dance in schools.
Read more
Joining the Sport and Recreation Alliance is pretty simple, but worthwhile!
Register now
