Black, Asian and minority ethnic people working or volunteering in community sport can feel “patronised and poorly represented” within the grassroots and community sport sector, according to new research published by Sported.
The national charity helps community sport and youth groups survive and thrive through business support and funding advice, and has the largest network of Sport for Development organisations in the UK with more than 2600 clubs and groups in its membership.
It carried out the qualitative research this summer in the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. Between August and September, it conducted focus groups with 15 organisations in its network, across all four home nations, in order “to understand directly from members their experiences of racism with the community sport sector”.
It is already well established that discrimination and unequal access to opportunities faced by Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in the UK are prevalent in the sports sector. According to Sporting Equals research from 2018, just three per cent of Board members of national governing bodies are Black, while 40% of Black, Asian and minority ethnic participants said their experiences of local sport or leisure clubs had been negative, compared to just 14% of white British.
To find out more click here: https://www.sportbirmingham.org/latest-news/2020/10/black-and-asian-people-patronised-and-poorly-represented-in-community-sport-sector
To download the report click here: https://www.sportbirmingham.org/latest-news/2020/10/black-and-asian-people-patronised-and-poorly-represented-in-community-sport-sector
By: Ilan
