EQUALITY STATEMENT
Helen Adams
Non-Executive Director, Equality
Rob Sage
Head of Corporate Services
Welsh Athletics is committed to making the sport accessible to all. As part of this commitment and our continued Governance reforms, we have appointed a Non-Executive Director to lead on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Helen Adams was appointed to the Board in April 2020 and is working to progress our Equality Action Plan. One of her first tasks is to establish an Equality Group reporting directly to the Board who will oversee the work undertaken to achieve the Intermediate Standard of the Equality Standard. The Equality Standard is a framework to assist us in widening access and reducing inequalities from underrepresented individuals, groups and communities. It is based around developing the organisation and services to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. These are critical if we want to achieve our Vision ‘to be the number one sport for participation and opportunities across Wales and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to participate and achieve.’ A key area over the next 12 months is working with our stakeholders, including our member clubs to use insight to help to drive this agenda and to remove any potential barriers to participation. We want everyone to engage with us and our annual Members Equality Survey provides invaluable insight to help us make progress in this area. We would encourage all our members to complete this and to support us on this journey. The sport continues to see a good level of diversity represented within the different areas of the sport, but with more to be done.
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