Women and Girls Sport is a Global Priority.
Golf has a role to play in enabling Women and Girls
through creating more opportunities to participate in Golf.
UK Women Golfers have the opportunity to come together and lead change in UK GOLF.
UK Women Golfers are not alone.
Women are leading change in Womens Sport.
“Women and Sports gender dimension within sport policies and programes is of Critical importance for UNESCO.”
Watch this 3 minute video to learn more about the international focus on women in sport.
International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport
The International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport is a rights-based reference that orients and supports policy- and decision-making in sport.
It promotes inclusive access to sport by all without any form of discrimination. It sets ethical and quality standards for all actors designing, implementing and evaluating sport programmes and policies.
As Women and Sport becomes a higer priority golbally, the leaders in change in womens sport are collaborating and engaging with leading governments around the wolrd and leveraging global stages, like the Olympics to keep the “Women In Sport” conversation going and ensuring it is part of the Global Sports agenda.
Prior to the opening ceremony for the Paris Olymipcs, Women in Sport, in partnership with the British Ambassador to France, and the International Womens Group, Women and Sport, held a conference at the British embassy, below is a recording of the session.
Click HERE to learn more about the work of the IWG
England Golf signed The Brighton Declaration in February 2024 – click on photo to read IWG press release
“Founded in 1984, Women in Sport is the longest-standing charity in its field with a proud history of securing change for women and girls. At its heart lies a deep understanding of the needs of women and girls in relation to sport and a passion to address the stubborn gender inequalities that still exist.” from their website
Click HERE to read their research
“Founded in 1984, Women in Sport is the longest-standing charity in its field with a proud history of securing change for women and girls. At its heart lies a deep understanding of the needs of women and girls in relation to sport and a passion to address the stubborn gender inequalities that still exist.” from their website
“WST are powerful advocates for change.” Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE, DL
Click HERE to learn more
Fearless Women: Driving Change in Womens Sport
Fearless Women are activists driving change change across women’s sport though community, content creation, collaboration and communications. This includes:
Women’s Sport Collective – our inclusive community for all women working in sport with over 8,000 women from 91 countries
The Game Changers – our award-winning podcast which shares the stories of trailblazing women in sport and explores key issues around equality
‘Game On – The Unstoppable Rise of Women’s Sport’ a powerful manifesto for women’s sport authored by our CEO, Sue Anstiss MBE
Game On is a powerful documentary that explores the recent growth in women’s sport and its impact across society
Our mission
Make awesome content that engages current fans, brings new ones to the space, and cements these teams and athletes as household names.
Just Womens Sports has funding from a number of investors focused on ensuring womens sport is given equal opportunity to attract, retain and develop spectators and fans globally, creating role models and working towards womens teams and sport stars being talked about around the world in the same ways as mens teams and sport stars are.
Sport England have developed a 10 year plan to work with sporting bodies, clubs, assocations and communities to increase the nations activity levels, Golf has a role to play in this as the healht benefits of golf are widely understood.
“The evidence is overwhelming that moving our bodies – through community sport, fitness and physical activity – improves our lives, individually and collectively.”
The R&A highlighted a report from Syngenta Golf, which focused on the potential revenue growth in golf if more women participated in golf.
This has led to an increased interest in attracting and retaining women in golf, with a range of get in to golf programs for women and girls.
In May 2024, Baroness Nye, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Golf discussed the value of Golf to the UK economny, based on research from Sheffield Hallam Univeristy in a Motion to Take Note in The House of Lords in May 2024.
“Eighteen holes is the equivalent of walking four to five miles—significantly more than the 10,000 daily steps recommended—and if that is not enough, research from the Swedish Golf Federation has shown that golfers live five years longer than non-golfers.
The benefits to the economy can also be calculated. Research by Sheffield Hallam University, supported by the R&A, in 2023 showed that the gross value added of the golf industry was £2.6 billion and that it brought £338 million to the UK economy in inward golf tourism, with consumer spending on golf being nearly £5 billion, and the industry employs nearly 64,000 people.”
In addition there are 40,000 volunteers who create and deliver the golf experience in England.
Barones Nyes Speech can be found HERE The full transcript of the Motion to Take Note: Community Sports: Impact on Young People – Motion to Take Note is HERE
