Providing access to sport across the region

Women & Girls Sport

"Even by the age of 7 many more girls than boys have been put off sport" "40% of girls have dropped out of sports activity by the time they reach 18" "Almost half of adult women in Britain (47%) participate in little or no sport at all"

Humber Sports Partnership are keen to help address the issues for women and girls in sport, targeting not only the access and facilities available but the traditional attitude that hinders the development of Women in Sport.

To achieve this Humber Sports Partnership will adopt the Sport England vision for equality.

 

 Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation

The Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation is the UK's leading organisation dedicated to improving and promoting opportunities for women and girls in sport and physical activity

For further information on the WSFF their website is: www.wsf.org.uk

WSFF believe in a society which encourages, enables and celebrates active women and girls. They are clear on how we will achieve this vision.

They will authoritatively and creatively campaign to:

  • Make sport as appealing to women and girls as it is to men and boys
  • Make women aware of the importance of being active
  • Make fit and healthy women and girls social and cultural role models.

WSFF will conduct innovative research that can provide insight to the barriers to sport and exercise, and help create the innovative solutions that can overcome them. WSFFwill work in partnership with Government - across sport, health and education - and with business and the media to inform and influence policy at the highest level. WSSF will provide consultancy and advice to those delivering sport and exercise and to help ensure that what they do is designed with women in mind.

 

What works for women is a website that promotes examples of initiatives in the UK that have raised participation levels among women and girls. The aim is to help good practise become best practise.

To read the case studies or submit your own example, check out the website now: www.whatworksforwomen.org.uk

 

It’s time Future forecasts for women’s participation in sport and exercise

This report shows that there is a crisis in women’s participation in sport  and exercise: more than 80% of women are not doing enough physical  activity to benefit their health. Young women aged 16 – 24 are nearly  half as active as their male counterparts. The statistics are even worse  for low income and black and minority ethnic women.

Forecasts in participation rates for women in the next ten years show  an even gloomier picture: one forecast shows a potential fall of 5.5% by 2017. This could amount to 1.25 million fewer women being sufficiently active.

At the same time, three out of five women believe that they do enough  exercise to be healthy, whereas in reality less than one in five are actually doing enough.   The Report 'It's Time' is attached below.

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