Current Equity Programmes

The UK Strategy Framework for Women and Sport.

UK Sport, with the home country sports councils, will develop collaborative projects, share best practice and provide support where it is most needed. Some of this work is detailed below.

UK Sport Equality & Diversity Strategy, and Race, gender and Disability Equality Schemes

UK Sport has developed an Equality & Diversity Strategy plus a Race Equality Scheme that will ensure we meet our legal obligations as well as establishing equality principles and policies within UK Sport and our work with partner organisations.

UK Sport Equality Strategy [PDF, 171k]

UK Sport Equality Policy [PDF, 52k]

UK Sport Race Equality Scheme [PDF, 138k]

UK Sport Generic Equality Scheme 2007 – 2009

UK Sport Equality Action Plan 2008 [PDF, 83k]

UK Sport Gender Equality Scheme 2007-09 [PDF, 110k]

UK Sport Disability Equality Scheme [PDF, 113k]

The Equality Standard: A Framework for Sport

Working in collaboration with home country sports councils, CCPR and equity organisations, UK Sport has developed the Equality Standard for sport. The Standard builds on the success of the Racial Equality Standard and provides a tool for sports organisations to work progressively towards equality. The Equality Standard will ensure equality is integrated into all aspects of sports bodies' operations and services to memebers, athletes, staff and volunteers.

The Equality Standard: A Framework for Sport [PDF, 426k]

equalities legislation: a guidence for governing bodies of sport

Equalities Legislation: Guidance for Governing Bodies of Sport contains a clear and simple explanation of the legal duties and requirements for Governing Bodies of sport under the six major equality strands - gender, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age.

Equalities Legislation: Guidance for Governing Bodies of Sport [PDF, 2,529k]

Transsexual People and Sport: Guidance for Sporting Bodies

The guidance provides best practice in ensuring the legal rights of transsexual people are upheld. Produced in association with The Gender Trust, the Women's Sport Foundation, the Central Council of Physical Recreation, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Constitutional Affairs and The Gender Recognition Panel, it covers access to facilities, participation in sports by transsexual people and the issues of drug testing and gender verification.

Transsexual People in Sport: Guidance for Governing Bodies [PDF, 130k]

UK Strategy Framework for Women and Sport

In 2001 UK Sport formed the UK Co-ordinating Group on Women and Sport. Members include representatives from the Womens Sports Foundation, Home Country Sports Councils, elite athletes and the Women's National Commission. The Co-ordinating Group is chaired by Dr Anita White and was tasked with developing a UK Strategy Framework for Women and Sport.

Three strategic objectives with targets were agreed and these will be monitored annually:

Participation: Increase participation by women and girls in a wide variety of sports, physical recreation activities and in physical education
Target - 5%
Performance and Excellence: Enable women and girls with sporting ability to achieve excellence in the sport of their choice
Target - an additional 10 women per year performing in the World top 20
Leadership: Increase the number of women leaders at all levels and in all capacities in sport and physical recreation
Target - at least 30% representation by women on strategic sports boards and committees.

UK Strategy Framework for Women and Sport [PDF, 496k]

The first annual monitoring report has been produced by the Women's Sports Foundation on behalf of UK Sport and is available to download below.

UK Strategy Framework Part 1 [PDF, 671k]

UK Strategy Framework Part 2 [PDF, 469k]

The second monitoring report was published in February 2006 and is available to download below.

UK Strategy Framework Update - February 2006 [PDF, 856k]

Women in Sport - The State of Play 2006 [PDF, 1,619k]