How understanding culture helps sports organisations create more inclusive environments
This guide is designed to help you reflect on the culture of your sport or organisation, and the cultures of the communities you want to engage. Understanding both is essential if we want to remove barriers, build trust, and create environments where people can access, participate and feel that they belong.
Across the organisations who completed the diagnostics the statement below was one of the lowest scoring:
“We understand the culture (and potential sub-cultures) of our delivery systems, environments and communities.”
This diagnostic question asks whether organisations:
- Understand the environments where sport is delivered and how those environments influence people’s experiences
- Understand how the environments we create influence who feels able to participate in sport
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