Department for Culture Media and Sport

equality in sport

We are absolutely committed to equality in sport.

Sport England aims to develop a world-leading community sport system, which will increase participation from all groups in society.

Some of the ways they are delivering this include:

  • working with equality organisations in sport to review the Equality Standard
  • challenging the national governing bodies of various sports to reach out to under-represented communities
  • offering funding to small, less well funded sports which appeal to under-represented communities

They also work directly with three national partners to widen participation in sport. These are: