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Principle: your organisation is increasing opportunities for a diverse range of people
Developing Your Services
Outcome 1: Your organisation has increased the diversity of people participating/using its services.
Requirement
Develop and implement positive action schemes to increase participation by under-represented groups.
  • Evaluate the scheme or programme
Essential evidence Added value evidence
Positive action schemes with evidence of -
  • Specification, aims and details of the programme
  • Monitoring and review papers or project evaluations
  • Correspondence or publicity materials for pilot programmes
Identify and promote examples of good practice in your sport relating to equality.
Guidance
Contribute to national or international projects that address participation by under-represented groups. Programmes might include:
  • Sports development initiatives
  • Partnership links with schools, local authorities, sports action zones, regional sports boards
  • Social inclusion partnership projects
  • Club development programmes
Examples –
  • Project Oarsome
  • Sailability
  • UK Athletics Norwich Union Girls Active programme
  • Fit for Girls
(See the resources in the toolkit section below)

The strand specific element of the Equality Standard Website is a helpful resource when developing positive action schemes

Requirement
Compare current audit data with those gathered at Foundation and Preliminary levels.
Essential evidence Added value evidence
Current data demonstrating an increase in diversity since Foundation and Preliminary level audits were undertaken
  • This information will include data against at least 4 strands – gender, disability, ethnicity and age
Audit data for people participating / using its services against sexual orientation and religion / belief.
Guidance
If organisations are able to demonstrate that the number of staff/volunteers involved is too small to ensure anonymity can be maintained, then reporting of data within these two strands is not required.

Toolkit/Guidance
Developing your Services Outcome 1
This file is a weblinkWomen's Sport and Fitness Foundation
This file is a weblinkSporting Equals
This file is a weblinkThe English Federation of Disability Sport


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