Sporting Equals Race Equality : State of the Sector
The end of March saw the online annual event from Sporting Equals which updates the sport and physical activity sector on progress made towards race equality, representation and anti-racism across the UK.
The event had some interesting keynote speeches from Nigel Huddleston MP, Minister for Sport and Tim Hollingsworth, Chief Executive at Sport England and Geoff Thompson MBE DL, Deputy Chair at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Other engaging and informative speakers included:
Ama Agbeze MBE - England Netball International & Sport Monitoring Advisory Panel Member; Arun Kang OBE - Chief Executive, Sporting Equals; Manisha Tailor MBE - Assistant Head of Coaching, Queens Park Rangers FC; Densign White MBE - Chair, Sporting Equals & Chief Executive, IMMAF; Fiona May - Retired Olympic Athlete & Supervisory Board Member, Puma and Mandip Sehmi - Paralympian
Who are Sporting Equals?
Sporting Equals exists to promote ethnic diversity across sport and physical activity. They also provide research and advice to a number of sporting bodies and support the delivery of the Race Representation Index https://www.sportingequals.org.uk/
The Race Representation Index scores the progress made by sports bodies on policy and strategy, and workforce, coaching, and elite talent profile.
