Include Summit - 3rd and 4th May 2023

The UK’s No.1 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Summit for Sport is back, this year in Manchester

Following the success of the inaugural event in 2022, the Include Summit will return on 3rd and 4th May 2023, taking place at Manchester Central, one of the UK’s largest conference and events venues.

The Include Summit, co-organised by Inclusive Cultures Founding Director Jamie Hooper and Meji Media Events Group CEO Gurmej Pawar, will bring together key individuals and sports bodies all working towards achieving greater equality, diversity and inclusion in sport.

The event’s mission is to help get one million underprivileged and underrepresented young people taking part in sport, with the long-term aim of transforming the diversity of the sporting workforce.

“Last year’s inaugural event was such a monumental success that we had to bounce straight back with another landmark event next year,” says Jamie Hooper. “The atmosphere was absolutely electric with passion, enthusiasm, and determination to make a difference, and we can’t wait to get everyone together again.”

Once again, the event will aim to highlight the distinct and defined inequalities that still exist in sport from grassroots to international level participation, as well as across the workforce, the executive, and the boardroom.

The Summit’s agenda will feature keynote plenaries, panel discussions, and expert interactive workshops across two full days, along with inclusive sport showcases, a partner exhibition area, and networking opportunities, bringing together key people and sports bodies all working towards achieving greater equality, diversity, and inclusion in sport.

“This event provides the safe space to openly discuss all of the key issues surrounding equality, diversity and inclusion in sport, without fear of judgement, and without politics,” says Gurmej Pawar. “The Include Summit is an uplifting and inspirational event, designed to connect people together through their passion to make a difference, and to help offer more young people vital sporting opportunities."

"We cannot make progress across equality, diversity and inclusion in sport unless we are all working together; together within our organisations, together with other organisations, and together with the rest of the sector."

"Our ask is that you come and join us – whether it’s for the whole two-day conference, just 1 day or even half a day – but vitally, we ask that you attend with your EDI lead and board and exec EDI champions."

Find out more about the 2023 edition of the Include Summit:

Speakers and Agenda https://includesummit.com/

Purchase Tickets https://includesummit.com/event/last-minute/

Globocol will be exhibiting at the Include Summit in Manchester. If you would like to meet us and see a demo of our Equality In Sport software application, send an email to connect@globocol.com

Globocol Partners with Sport:80

Integration developed to streamline data input for NGBs

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Sport:80, whose cloud-based sports business management solution is trusted by over 60 NGBs and sports organisations in the UK, USA, and Ireland.

A fellow co-founder of the Sports Technology Alliance, Sport:80 design, deliver and support innovative technologies that enable the growth of sport. From CRM, memberships and event registration, to finance management, compliance and automated email communications, their product-suite offers functionality for all back office tasks. Their flagship product, the Sport:80 Platform, has over 1 million active users and supports the delivery of over 20,000 events every year.

Our companies are clearly aligned in a desire to contribute positively to the changing landscape of safeguarding in sport.

Through our partnership with Sport:80 we have developed an integration between our solutions to seamlessly import data to support the investigation of any safeguarding cases from our shared customer base. This enables Globocol subscribers to access data directly from the Sport:80 database without having to manually type in the record.

Jonny Turner, COO at Sport:80 explained why he valued this partnership with Globocol, “At Sport:80 we are driven to help sport adopt a more centralised, automated, and streamlined approach to safeguarding, and we believe the work Globocol are doing represents a significant step in the right direction. That’s why we are so passionate about working with them. Safeguarding is an area where NGBs always strive to be better and this partnership can support our customers to tackle safeguarding challenges in a much more effective way.”

“Speed and efficiency are fundamental to addressing safeguarding and disciplinary concerns in sport and we truly believe that our partnership with Globocol can support the community of sports organisations we work with to achieve that.”

In addition, having easy access to membership information will ensure that the data being used to manage cases is accurate and will reduce the possibility of input errors when first reporting concerns. This serves to make sport safer at all levels.

“It’s really exciting for us to begin working with Sport:80 to engage with an ever-growing community of NGBs and sports organisations with our integrity software solutions”, said Eddie Prentice, Co-Founder at Globocol.

“Our companies are clearly aligned in a desire to contribute positively to the changing landscape of safeguarding in sport. We share a will to create a more positive environment for people at all levels in the industry and believe that working together is an important stepping stone to achieving this goal.”

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A Response To The Whyte Review

Sport England and UK Sport have committed to strengthening safeguarding and welfare

In light of the findings of the Whyte Review, Sport England and UK Sport have published a policy response which commits to a strengthening of safeguarding and welfare for everyone involved in sport.

Five areas of support have been highlighted:

1. Coaching/Workforce Support

2. Performance Athlete Support

3. Good Governance

4. Dispute Resolution

5. Safer environments for participants/ensuring they have a voice

Today is a positive step forward, but there is a huge amount of work still to be done to ensure all sport is consistently safe, welcoming and inclusive for all - Sport England & UK Sport

There are 19 commitments across these five areas with a few highlight areas from our point of view:

• The decision to develop a national registration scheme for sports coaches which will include what qualifications they have completed and their suitability to work in certain roles;

• The funding of a national network of welfare officers to promote good practice and safe sport at local level;

• The continued development of the Safeguarding Case Management Programme.

Read the full policy response ...

UK Sport and Sport England’s Policy Response to the Whyte Review