Trends in women's participation

There has been significant growth in female sport participation over the past few years. There are almost 500,000 more women were taking part in sport and active recreation at least once a week in 2011-12 compared to when records began (2005-06). However, female participation is still falling short of men's, and the long term trend for young women's participation is still down.   

Sport England have announced their intention to begin focussing on the problem of falling participation rates amongst younger age groups, in particular the 16-24 age-group.  WSFF welcome this focus, and strongly believe that falling participation amongst young adults, adolescents and children is a very serious problem and presents a significant challenge to the sector. 

 

Download the report to see the latest figures on female participation.