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Centre of Social Justice in Sport and Society
A bespoke project to offer insight into daily family life among the various minority ethnic communities in Wales and their participation in sport and physical activity, with a view to informing policy.
Sport Wales had picked-up on an earlier review of research on participation by black and minority ethnic communities in sport done by ISPAL for Sporting Equals and the home nation sports councils. They recognised the importance of being informed of attitudes to participation and the role of sport in the everyday lives of families from minority ethnic communities in Wales if they were to fulfil their remit to get everyone ‘hooked on sport for life and to establish Wales as a nation of champions’.
the approach
We worked across different BAME groups (with a particular focus on those from Indian, Polish, Chinese, African Caribbean backgrounds) in five locations in Wales (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Wrexham and the North Wales coast). This programme involved:
Our goals were:
the impact
Sport should be for all - we all have the right to access opportunities to get involved and stay active and healthy, regardless of our backgrounds. There are some excellent examples where sports have worked hard to break down barriers with positive results, but sadly it's clear there are still those who feel they cannot access sport or have no place within it. This needs to change. Sport in Wales will not continue to grow unless we make it more inclusive.
At Sport Wales we pride ourselves on taking insightful and evidence-led action to make a real difference, and now that we have heard the voices of these communities, we can begin to look at how the sporting sector as a whole can use it to inspire new ways of thinking around engaging more people from BME communities
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