Supporting Women and Girls to be Active
In March 2024, the UK's Local Government Association’s (LGA) Culture, Tourism and Sport (CTS) Board launched a call for evidence on supporting women and girls to be active. It had the following objectives: - To accelerate learning by collating and sharing case study examples from councils and wider organisations that are effectively supporting women and girls to be more physically active. - To gather evidence on the challenges and solutions to help inform future work in this area.
Brighton Plus Helsinki Declaration Principles:
- Equity and Equality in society and sport
- Developing Participation
- Sport Information and Research
Resources:
- Target Audiences:
- Sport Administrators
- Sport Policy Makers
Summary of contents:
The findings in this report are broken down into 4 key areas, with detailed examples of what organisations need to understand, and need to change to progress gender equity within sport.
These areas are:
- What approaches are working?
- What are the barriers to participation and delivery?
- What needs to change to drive progress?
- What is the data telling us?
