Women in coaching
This fact sheet is provides a starting point for those looking to develop their own projects aimed at getting more women involved in coaching.
Since 2000 the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) has delivered targeted workforce development programmes to encourage and enable more women to become involved and develop as sports coaches.
In collaboration with other organisations that have run similar programmes nationally, we make some key recommendations about growing, retaining and sustaining your female coaching workforce.
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.
Archery
Archery participation overview
This year around 19,500 women took part in archery at least once every four weeks – a decline of 0.02 percentage points on the previous year, but participation still remains higher than 2007-08.
Archery attracts more female participants than similar activities, such as shooting and fencing.
45% of female archers are 35-54 years of age. Participants are more likely to be from high income households.