The news of an extra £63million funding for community leisure centres with pools in yesterday’s Budget is welcome. Although it is not a complete solution to the challenges facing the leisure sector, it will provide the facilities most at risk of closure and cuts with the urgent...
Today, on International Women’s Day, the Government has announced more than £600 million of funding which will be invested in school sport over the next two years. The funding will support schools to offer equal access to the same range of sports for girls and boys as...
We welcome the commitment to reform and the leadership being shown by British Gymnastics in its response to the Whyte Review. Whilst we believe that to move towards safe and fair sport, there remains a need for an Independent Regulator for Sport, the actions planned and the...
Women in Sport is deeply saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. During her seventy-year reign she showed enormous strength, stoicism, and an unwavering sense of duty. We join the rest of the country in mourning the passing of our queen. Whilst Queen Elizabeth...
The cost-of-living crisis is likely to worsen inequalities, with women in under-served communities bearing the brunt of its impacts. It is vital that it does not set back progress made with women and girls’ sport in the way the pandemic did. The Government needs to act now...
The Context Gender equality has increased in recent years across society but this change has not been organic and nor is further progress inevitable. Markets don’t tend to self-correct any more than turkeys vote for Christmas. The progress to date with gender equality has been as a...
