How to increase women’s participation in your grassroots sport organisation

Why should you take this training?

The main aim of this training tool is to encourage and equip organised sports clubs and federations to take action to reduce the gender gap in sport. While the partnership acknowledges that this is an issue that requires a systemic approach - including, for example, change within the education system - we believe things can also be done within our sports organisations.

The potential of sport in addressing wider agendas such as health, economic stability, social inclusion, etc, is indeed widely recognised. Yet the sector is facing few challenges to unlock its potential particularly in terms of modernising its approach to keep and increase numbers of active participants.

This worrying and imbalanced situation is not new and has long been identified, with few concrete initiatives and political documents aiming at addressing it. Therefore, a lot remains to be done and we believe that any work to promote and improve gender equality in sport will be beneficial to all.

What are you going to learn?

By the end of the GAP online training for mentors, you are going to:

• Understand and recognise the challenges and benefits of attracting more women to your sport club (gain knowledge)
• Discover and be exposed to new approaches that attract more women to sport (you are going to be inspired)
• Be able to create new offers and methods in your organisation which encourage women to participate (bridge the gap)

Key information to navigate the training tool

• It will take you up to 60 minutes to complete the training tool.
• To complete the training, open the topics in the order shown on the roadmap below (you can do this by simply clicking on the title within the tiles). At the end of each topic, you will find a short test to assess your knowledge.
• You can activate subtitles and automatic translation for each of the videos in this training. To do this
  1. Click on the keyboard icon at the bottom right of the player to turn on the Subtitles/CC option +
  2. Click on the gear icon ('Settings') and select your preferred language in the 'Auto-translate' tab.
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• To complete the training, you will need to complete all the stops, do the reflective exercises at the end AND complete a short feedback form.