Women into Coaching 2
From August 2006 until July 2008 the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) managed a project that enabled 159 women across London to pursue sports coaching careers through the Women into Coaching 2 – London (WiC2) positive action programmes. Women were able to gain coaching qualifications across 8 sports up to Level 3 through this learner centred programme. It also looked to increase awareness across the sector of the range of issues faced by women in sports coaching and to provide further evidence of the future needs of women and girls.
London Playing Fields Foundation - Active Angels
Active Angels is an innovative multi-activity project that aims to contribute to the health of 14-16 year old girls by encouraging and sustaining their participation in sporting activity. It focuses on girls who are currently active but who are at risk of adopting sedentary lifestyles once they have left school. The project has been providing opportunities for girls to participate in sports and physical activity in a non-competitive, friendly and supportive environment since 2004.
Badminton
Badminton participation overview
Badminton is the 7th most popular sport for female participation - around 200,500 women play badminton at least once a week.
The greatest disparity between men and women in badminton occurs at ‘middle youth’ where 30-34 year old men are almost three times more likely to play the sport than women of the same age.