Equality, Inclusion and Diversity

Key contact: David Crossman

Equality, Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion: building inclusive communities throughout North Somerset.

Improving Access to Physical Activity: improving access to education through sports and physical activity.

  • Inclusion

    • To support growth in the local voluntary and community sector that ensures everybody and anybody can access what they need.

    • To promote cultural inclusion, sharing and togetherness across a vast array of community groups.

    Improving Access to Physical Activity:

    • To remove barriers to physical activity by making it affordable, offering participants meaningful choice, and ensuring opportunities are accessible to all. 

    • To strengthen community cohesion by using sport and physical activity to develop life skills and support personal and professional growth. 

    • To enable everyone to experience the health and wellbeing benefits that come from participation in sport and physical activity.

    Summer is cricket, street games, parks and open spaces, summer beach rugby and netball (2025). Looking to get beach cricket.

  • Inclusion

    • Multicultural community groups living across North Somerset

    • Minority groups living across North Somerset

    Improving Access to Physical Activity:

    • Local grass root sports clubs

    • Local activity providers (rugby clubs, junior football clubs etc)

    • Oldmixon Untied Club

    • Coronation United

    • Walking cricket groups

    • Walking football groups 

  • Inclusion:

    • Broadoak School – Festival of Culture (highlighting all that is good about multicultural living in North Somerset).

    Improving Access to Physical Activity:

    • Facilitating 400 young people to visit Formula 1 and experience work related activity through the Williams Racing Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Learning Experience. 

    • Facilitating impactful workshops with Leroy Rosenior MBE delivered to more than 300 year 7 and 8 students on the importance of equality and inclusion. It was aimed to inspire young people and deter them from both racist behaviour and knife crime.

    • Using sport as a catalyst to engage young people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) learning.

  • Inclusion:

    • Partnership with Big Worle to build on legacy on impact in the Worle area.

    • Girls on Track – encouraging girls into careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. 

David Crossman
Equality, Inclusion and Diversity Lead

David.Crossman@vansmail.org.uk

Project Leads

BNSSG VCSE Alliance
NAVCA

Funders

Race Equality North Somerset (RENS)
Multicultural Faith Association (MFA)
Bangladeshi Association
Polish Association
LGBTQ+ Network
Refugee Welcome
Somerset County Football Association
Beach Rugby
Beach Netball

Partners

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