In December 2022, CIMSPA’s Board of Trustees, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Working Group and the Senior Leadership Team agreed to the following statement of commitment:
“CIMSPA recognises and values people’s uniqueness and our intention is for everyone to be provided with the equal opportunity to be able to thrive and reach their full potential. We listen and understand people’s individual views and lived experiences, so that we can help shape and drive the sector’s workforce to have a measurable positive impact on lives and communities across the sport and physical activity sector.”
Our ambition is that the demographic of the people who work in sport and physical activity fully represents the society it serves.
As the chartered institute for the sector we aim to lead by example and demonstrate an exceptional culture of EDI within our own organisation. We have identified the following objectives as the focus for this work:
- Our Culture: To ensure everyone at CIMSPA feels proud of our inclusive culture and actively contributes towards maintaining this. Each individual will feel valued for what they bring to the organisation and knows they will be supported to learn, grow and progress.
- Our Diversity: To increase our diversity to ensure the demographic of our People fully represents the society we serve.
- Our Influence: To use our position as the chartered institute to cascade excellent EDI practices across the sector. To achieve this our initial objective is to ensure partners, stakeholders and the wider sector understand CIMSPA’s commitment to EDI and identify us as an exemplary inclusive employer.
Our Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan provides an overview of the work we have done so far towards the above, our current position and our plans for the future.