Falkirk Young People’s Sport Panel
🚨Sport Hour🚨
Q2 -What wider skills have you seen people develop through participating or volunteering in sport?
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Falkirk Young People’s Sport Panel
🚨Sport Hour🚨
Q2 -Tell us about examples you have seen in your club, school or community to remove barriers to participating in sport?
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A2: One of our community coaches provides free football sessions for young people in the Craigshill area. Funding a big barrier to these football sessions so to counteract this, our coach and players regularly fundraise to help pay for pitch hire and equipment.
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A1 Great female role models, both elite and in the community, plus increased visibility and coverage of women's sport as a whole, is helping challenge stereotypes and inspire future generations 🫶 #SportHour
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A3 - There is a sport out there for everyone, they have just not found it yet 🩵
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A3. The wonder SSF Youth Development coordinators (all tagged) have all their used experience of sport to design and deliver incredible programmes where sport is used intentionally to support young people to develop and thrive.
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Delighted to be co-hosting this #SportHour with the theme of moving more for your mental health! Tune in at 9pm on 6 May #FeelYourPersonalBest
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A1 - more representation of the different roles within sport, not just participating, increases accessibility for women and girls in sport
#ActiveGirls
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Providing positive safe spaces for woman & girls to participate in sport & physical activity.
@SSF_2000 are working to offer opportunities with key partners like Sweaty Betty Foundation, SGBs & local authorities!
Women in Sport IWG Women & Sport Francesca Seton
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A2 - setting good examples and making sure you create a safe space for women and girls in sport
#ActiveGirls
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Equity across all areas of sport – coverage, language, recognition, celebration! This will provide the platform for tomorrows participants, spectators and coaches to view sport as sport, regardless of gender!
Women in Sport IWG Women & Sport Francesca Seton
A2 Outdated comments and perceptions need to be challenged 🚫
Sports leaders and the media have a responsibility to ensure women & girls are represented fairly and are shown the respect they deserve.
Female role models and strong male allies can help promote change #SportHour
A3 Progress is being seen, but women & girls are still hugely under-represented in sport.
We should aim for a future where women have equal participation, equal representation in leadership positions, equal broadcast & print coverage, and equal pay & prizemoney 🤝 #SportHour
A2: My biggest sporting achievement this year was speaking about my sporting journey and #FitForGirls at Parliament for International Women's Day in March! I'm still so grateful for the opportunity and it has become my top sporting highlight ever! #SportHour
A3 Success for SDS would look like intersectionality being understood and celebrated. It is essential we are able to understand individuals’ unique experiences are shaped by their interaction with structures, policies, laws and existing disadvantages.
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A1-Through excellent partnerships, NA Active School Arran Cluster removes barriers to participation with #activegirls sessions. For RMac, this has resulted in further weekly participation and a podium finish at her first ever race, yesterday! @tweedlovefest @ArranHighPE
⏰ #SportHour | Meet the co-hosts
We're delighted to have Maree Todd and Naomi Gill joining us for Monday's discussion.
Here's a reminder of how to get involved and a preview of the questions: bit.ly/4b5Ftmc
