What are the benefits of Equity for your club?

• An increase in levels of participation and volunteer support;
• Public perception of your club and sport will become more positive;
• Achieving a more equitable status for your club will increase your appeal to large numbers of people and therefore can increase membership and revenue and attract revenue support;
• The number of people able to fulfil roles in administration, coaching, management as well as volunteers will increase;
• An organisation that is more diverse and reflects the community it serves in terms of staff make-up at management, executive, officer and volunteer levels is likely to be more innovative and able to respond better to the varied needs of all members of that community. The services offered by your organisation will improve with a likely result of higher customer satisfaction rates;
• Adhering to Sports equity means that you will be working within the law. Sports Equity is supported by legislation including the Race Relations Act & Race Relations (Amendment) Act, Sex Discrimination Act and the Disability Discrimination Act;
• You will be working to the Government's agenda and thus more likely to receive or continue to receive monies to develop your sport.

Further guidance may be obtained from the websites of the Department of Media, Culture and Sport; Sporting Equals and UK Sport Standards in Sport