ukactive launches EDI self-assessment tool
ukactive has launched its equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) self-assessment tool to support its members to improve services for all users.
ukactive’s Vision 2030 strategy sets out an ambition for fitness and leisure facilities to engage more than 5 million new members from a greater diversity of backgrounds by 2030.
The new self-assessment tool will be instrumental in helping to drive the development of the sector to provide a more inclusive service.
It will be open to organisations across the sector and involves answering 40 questions focused on current practices relating to EDI.
After completing the assessment, facilities, providers and suppliers will receive an instant score to show how inclusive they currently are. This is for their internal use and is not published externally. They will then be signposted to recommendations to help improve EDI practices.
The physical activity sector plays an essential role in narrowing the disparities and inequalities faced by people today, whatever their age, ability or background, according to ukactive.
The EDI self-assessment tool will help to understand the sector’s current position on EDI and set a benchmark based on the priority areas for improvement – with a full national sector report of the anonymised scores due for publication in March 2024.
- For more information, contact Timothy Mathias, strategic lead for EDI at ukactive: timothymathias@ukactive.org.uk
