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.
Barriers to sports participation for women and girls
In this fact sheet we explore the range of practical, personal and social and cultural barriers that prevent women and girls becoming involved in sport and exercise. Our list of barriers also contains ideas for sports deliverers to implement to encourage and enable women and girls to participate.