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Our Resources Hub is an extensive collection of helpful toolkits, documents, reports, and useful links for a whole range of topics from across the sector. Whether you're looking for original Alliance research, our Inclusivity Hub resources, or best practice from across the sector, you'll find it here as well as much more!

For more information about any of the Alliance's research on this page, contact the research and development team on research@sportandrecreation.org.uk

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A Blueprint for Diversity in the Workplace

A collection of videos on the basics on how to nurture and manage groups of people from different backgrounds and perspectives.

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A Mentally Healthier Society

COVID-19 has caused a mental health emergency. A UK drive to urgently establish a mental health renewal plan is in progress. Learn how to put mental health at the heart of the new normal.

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A White Guy Confronting Racism

Jared Karol shares stories of shedding, dismantling, and unlearning much of what he was taught (or not taught) about race and racism growing up. Rather than tell us what to do, Jared invites and challenges us to do the deep, vulnerable, self-reflective work of figuring who we want to be in the racial justice struggle — trusting that “what to do” will emerge from there.

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Alliance EDI Toolkit and Guidance [pdf]

This Equality, Diversity and Inclusion toolkit has been designed by Sport and Recreation Alliance as a guide to support our members to better understand how to embed and achieve EDI within their organisations and their sports.

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Alliance speaks to leading professionals to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month

To mark South Asian Heritage Month, the Sport and Recreation Alliance interviewed two influential figures about their experiences working in the sector.

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Alliance's Inclusion Calendar [pdf]

Our Inclusion Calendar highlights the key dates in equality, diversity and inclusion from across the year.

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Amplifying Hidden Women’s Voices

An hour long conversation covering the topics on how are Hijabi women speaking up to resist further marginalisation, how do they dismantle a narrative written around Muslim women by others and what is it like navigating the work place as Muslim women.

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Best Diversity and Inclusion books for 2024

A compilation of the 15 best books on diversity and inclusion. Diversity and inclusion books are works that teach professionals how to navigate race, gender, age, physical ability, religion, and sexual orientation in the workplace.

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Black History Month Spotlight: Sporting Equals

For Black History Month, the Sport and Recreation Alliance wanted to celebrate the immense contribution Black individuals have made and are making to grassroots sport and recreation by showcasing the stories of some of its members and partners.

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Blog – Race Equality Week is Everyone’s Business

The Alliance's Governance Officer, Serena Mahandru, wrote a blog during Race Equality Week 2023 about racial equality in sport and recreation, and why #ItsEveryonesBusiness.

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Blog - Reflections on the Alliance's recent transgender inclusion event

With transgender inclusion such an important topic in the current sport and recreation landscape.

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British Triathlon - Transgender Policy

British Triathlon have developed a trans inclusion policy, to ensure equal and fair competition in all disciplines of triathlon and to ensure that the trans community can access triathlon without fear of discrimination or prejudice.

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Brown Table Talk

At their table Dee and Mita share stories and offer practical advice on how Women of Color can go beyond just surviving, and start thriving in their organizations. They also speak directly to allies on how they can be showing up for all of us.

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BSL Compilation

A collection of British Sign Language for physical activity and training.

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Busy Being Black

Josh Rivers explores how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives. An oral history project and conversations with those who have learned and are learning to thrive at the intersections of their identities.

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Call In: Helping Leaders Navigate Today’s Cancel Culture

A podcast tackling EDI issues in the news and breaks down the practical steps that leaders can and should take to manage any organization in today’s world – when to “call in” and when to “call out”.

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Case Studies - How Sport Can Help Improve Mental Health

Case studies that highlight how gymnastics can help with dementia, how sport can help people with psychosis and how exercise can help stimulate sport memories.

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Celebrating South Asian Heritage Month in the UK: Evolve Cycling Network's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

To mark South Asian Heritage Month, the Alliance's Governance Officer, Serena Mahandru, highlighted the work of a community group helping to make sport and physical activity a more inclusive place.

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Celebrating youth voices in activity this International Youth Day!

For International Youth Day, the Alliance's Serena Mahandru highlighted the importance of to recognising and celebrating the immense potential that lies within the young voices of the sports industry.

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Demolishing the Concrete Ceiling

There remains a cavernous pay equality gap between what men and women earn for similar work, and it is even wider for women of colour (WOC).

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Diversity and Inclusion – McKinsey Report

McKinsey's latest report on diversity and inclusion makes a business case for equality, diversity and inclusion within the workforce.

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Educate Schools on Delivering Inclusive Opportunities | Activity Alliance

A video to improve the delivery of inclusive sports opportunities through the School Games. This video highlights how schools can work together with expert partners to ensure their School Games offer is inclusive for all pupils.

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Effective engagement factsheets

Activity Alliance produced a series of engagement factsheets support sport and activity providers to think about the ways they include disabled people. From planning opportunities to measuring impact, these resources help organisations embed inclusive practice and engage more disabled people to be active.

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Equality Act 10 Year On

The Equality Act Review undertakes the most comprehensive review of the Equality Act 2010 to date in the UK. The report argues that the existing protected characteristics are largely rooted in biology and proposes that new protected characteristics such as socioeconomic background, homelessness, accent, hair, weight, and immigration be added to the Act.

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Equality Act 2010: guidance

Information and guidance on the Equality Act 2010, including age discrimination and public sector Equality Duty.

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Equality Standard for Sport

ESS is owned and managed by the Sports Councils through the Sports Councils Equality Group (SCEG). SCEG is currently reviewing the Equality Standard for Sport framework and the framework is in its final stages. It is expected to be published in the second half of 2022.

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategies

StreetGames launched their new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

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Get Out Get Active Volunteer Management Toolkit

Everyone should have the ability to access volunteering opportunities. Created in partnership with Volunteering Matters, the Get Out Get Active Volunteer Management Toolkit provides organisations with a step-by-step guide to building an inclusive volunteer programme.

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Guidelines on Mental Health and Wellbeing

This guide outlines considerations and provides advice for employers, people professionals and people managers on how employee mental health can be supported.

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How Sport Helps Mental Health - Sport in Mind

Taking part in sport or physical activity regularly really does have a positive impact on both our mental and physical health.

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How to look after your mental health using exercise

This guide provides you with tips on how to look after your mental health using exercise.

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Human Rights Commission – Protected Characteristics

A good video from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on protected characteristics.

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ILGA Rainbow Report

The 12th edition of ILGA-Europe’s Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People in Europe and Central Asia. The publication includes events that occurred between January and December 2022.

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Inclusive Activity Programme

Activity Alliance’s Inclusive Activity Programme will equip you with the skills to engage disabled people and people with long-term health conditions more effectively in physical activity.

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Inclusive Activity Programme | Training | Activity Alliance

Activity Alliance’s Inclusive Activity Programme will equip you with the skills to engage disabled people and people with long-term health conditions more effectively in physical activity.

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Inclusive Activity: Taking a person-centred approach

Activity Alliance’s resource explains the concept of 'intersectionality' in relation to disabled people and how this can influence their activity levels. It encourages sport and leisure organisations to take a person-centred approach when planning and providing opportunities.

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Inclusive Recruitment - Impact vs Effort Matrix Analysis

We recently held an online roundtable discussion on Inclusive Recruitment. Utilising an impact/effort matrix allows us to effectively prioritise and systematically plan EDI strategies.

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Invisible Women

It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.

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Learn from Get Out Get Active

Activity Alliance and partners deliver Get Out Get Active. This series of learning outputs share the What? How? Who? And what next? from the learning to date. They aim to help others to be genuinely inclusive and reach those that would benefit most from being more active.

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LGBTI+ Glossary

It is important to remember that language around LGBTI+ issues is constantly changing and evolving. Particularly as many terms are related to people’s personal identities, the terms may be used by different people to mean different things and at different times.

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Mental Health and Physical Activity Toolkit

Mind's Mental Health and Physical Activity Toolkit aims to increase the number of sport, physical activity and mental health providers who are equipped with the knowledge and skills to support and engage people experiencing mental health problems in physical activity.

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Mental Health Support for the Sport and Physical Activity Sector Webinar

First webinar in Mind's new series looking at the variety of resources, training and services available to the sector.

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Mermaids Report - Young People and Sport

Taking part in sport and physical activity for trans, non-binary and gender diverse people is not always straightforward. Barriers such as gendered clothing, single-sex changing rooms and teams split into boys and girls can exclude those who are either non-binary or can trigger gender dysphoria.

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Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Ensuring sport is inclusive for all

To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, the Alliance highlighted the work of Neurodiverse Sport - an organisation that aims to promote all neurodiversity at every level of sport.

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New guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport

The Sports Councils’ Equality Group (SCEG), made up of representatives from each of the UK’s sports councils (UK Sport, Sport England, Sport Wales, sportscotland and Sport Northern Ireland), commissioned a review of its existing guidance (2013/15) for the inclusion of transgender people in sport last year, recognising that sport at every level required more practical advice and support.

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New guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport published

The Sports Councils’ Equality Group (SCEG), made up of representatives from each of the UK’s sports councils (UK Sport, Sport England, Sport Wales, sportscotland and Sport Northern Ireland), commissioned a review of its existing guidance (2013/15) for the inclusion of transgender people in sport last year, recognising that sport at every level required more practical advice and support.

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Olympic race-walker Tom Bosworth on LGBTQ+ inclusion in sport

To mark Pride Month 2023, the Alliance spoke with Olympic race walker and British record holder Tom Bosworth, one of very few openly gay athletes in the United Kingdom to have competed at the highest level of their sport.

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PE and Inclusion | Youth Sport Trust

How to ensure you embed inclusive practice in PE. Summarising the range of inclusive teaching resources available and how you can adapt these to support in lockdown and beyond.

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Perret Laver Recruitment Toolkit

The Perret Laver Recruitment Toolkit helps sports organisations recruit effectively, and has EDI at its heart.

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Pride shouldn't feel perilous - let's get sports speaking confidently

To kick off Pride Month 2023, the Sport and Recreation Alliance invited Jon Holmes, founder and lead of Sports Media LGBT+, to share his thoughts on LGBT+ inclusion in sport.

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Queer Voices That Need To Be Heard

Pride is about being visible for those who cannot be. It’s about LGBTQ+ representation beyond tokenisation. It’s about resisting anti-trans legislation.

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Queery

Some of the brightest luminaries in the LGBTQ+ family explore their stories of identity, personality and the shifting cultural matrix around gender, sexuality and civil rights.

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Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking

Author Matthew Syed offers a radical guide to success that can as easily be applied to business as it can to everyday life. It challenges hierarchies, encourages constructive dissent and forces us to think again about where the best ideas really come from.

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Record Breaking Figures For Women’s Sport Viewership in 2022

New research published today from the Women’s Sport Trust, with broadcast insight from Futures Sport & Entertainment, has found the average viewing time per person for women’s sport on TV in the UK increased year-on-year by 131% in 2022.

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Rethink Mental Illness - Physical Activity Toolkit

Rethink Mental Illness is a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. No matter how bad things are, we can help people severely affected by mental illness to improve their lives.

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Revamped women and girls' player pathway aims to discover a new generation

A new-look women’s and girls’ player pathway has been announced, to unearth the very best talent in England while also making the game more diverse, accessible, and inclusive.

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Sex & Power

Fawcett's Index charts the progress towards equal representation for women in top jobs across the UK. Yet again, the report reveals the pace of change is glacial in most sectors and shows that women are outnumbered by men 2:1 in positions of power.

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Side by Side: A Global Guide to Building Business and Civil Society Partnerships for LGBTQ+ Rights

Featuring best practice examples from six global businesses, and first-hand insights from seven LGBTQ+ civil society organisations across the world, Side by Side provides a clear business case and framework for balanced, impactful, and sustainable partnerships.

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Sport and Recreation Alliance with Gateley Legal

In this podcast, Alliance Head of Governance Vijaya Panangipalli, alongside Sean Williams and Fiona Debney from Gateley Legal, discuss the Charities Act 2022 and its implications for sport and recreation organisations registered as charities.

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Sporting Equals Race Charter

Sporting Equals launched their Race Equality Charter to help organisations deliver equality objectives.

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Support Through Sport: How MoJ funding is helping to change lives at a local level

Support Through Sport, a Community Interest Company (CIC) based in Nottinghamshire, recently received funding from the Ministry of Justice through the Government’s £5million Youth Justice Sport Fund.

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Tackling Racism and Racial Inequality in Sport (TRARIIS)

In 2020, the murder of George Floyd was a catalyst for the five Sports Councils responsible for investing in and growing sport across the UK, to come together to explore racial inequalities in sport and to look at how reflective our sporting system is of UK society.

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Talks by Women Leaders

Short talks by global women leaders who are leading fiercely and fearlessly.

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TEDx - Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

The issue of inclusion and diversity is on the minds of leaders everywhere. As we work toward understanding how to create and maintain truly inclusive cultures, comprised of diverse groups of people, the focus has been on what we can do for others.

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The Argument

Jane Coaston has spent years on the receiving end of diversity initiatives, and for that reason, she’s skeptical. To debate D&I programs efficacy, she brought together Dr. Sonia Kang and Lily Zheng to argue what works and doesn’t when it comes to making workplaces fair for all.

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The business of sports and the quest for inclusion for women

For all the progress toward equality on the field, sports administration remains dominated by men. A fairer, more inclusive industry would benefit everyone.

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The Equality Act - making equality real

The Equalities Office published an easy-to-read read document to make easy for everyone to understand what the Act stands for and how it helps to promote equality.

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The Inclusion Club Hub

This toolkit created by Activity Alliance is full of ideas, methods and resources to ensure everyone has a positive inclusive club experience. The Inclusion Club Hub has case studies and better practice examples, so you can learn from others and adapt it to suit.

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The Link Between Menopause and Gender Inequity at Work

Hot flashes, joint pain, anxiety, depression, difficulty sleeping - these unforgiving menopause symptoms directly impact work but often go overlooked and underdiscussed. Andrea Berchowitz gives practical advice on how to create a menopause-friendly work culture.

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The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Trans people in Britain make up less than one per cent of the country's population, however they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows.

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Toolkit for Inclusive Activities by Women in Sport

Get Out Get Active (GOGA) is a programme that supports disabled and non‑disabled people to take part in fun and inclusive activities together. Inspired by GOGA, Women in Sport created resources, templates and key findings from the programme which is funded by Spirit of 2012.

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Trans Inclusion and Gender Diversity in Play and Sport

Join the Youth Sport Trust and Simon Scarborough, Head of PE, Crispin School Academy to gain insight on how to ensure ALL young people can have an inspirational, accessible and meaningful experience through physical education and sport.

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Transsexual People and Competitive Sport

This guidance and supporting resources for national governing bodies of sport have been developed by the home country Sports Council Equality Group (SCEG) to assist those involved in administering sport to identify what steps they can take to provide an inclusive environment that is supporting of and welcoming to transsexual people.

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UK Deaf Sport - How To Be Accessible

Find resources and tips on how to be inclusive in sport and during physical activity below.

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Using sport to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing

For Children’s Mental Health Week, the Alliance was keen to highlight the instrumental role that sport and recreation plays in promoting mental wellbeing among children and young people.

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Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite

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Women at Work

Conversations about where we are and how we move forward with Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo, and Emily Caulfield.

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Women in Sport Report - Sport, stereotypes and stolen dreams: Why girls still feel they don’t belong in sport

In this study, Women in Sport explored where gender stereotyping begins so we can challenge and inspire to create lasting change for women and girls in sport and society.

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Youth Sport Trust Diversity Action Plan

This is a sample diversity action plan built by Youth Sport Trust.

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