Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy
Foxhill Indoor Bowls Club promotes a community where everyone is welcome and embraced, regardless of their identity, background or circumstances.
FIBC is committed to ensuring bowls represents and includes all sections of our society. We are aware that our sport is currently not representative of many areas of society and this is a missed opportunity. We must evolve to make our sport better complement modern lifestyles and make interventions to tackle deep-rooted inequality in sports activity.
One of our priorities in our Club strategy, is to make Bowls truly accessible by opening up the gateways to our sport and to embrace more people, irrespective of their background or circumstances. The physically undemanding nature of our sport, the existence of thousands of clubs nationwide and the relatively low cost of playing means we have some critical elements of success in broadening participation.
FIBC Responsibilities are as follows:
- To be responsible for ensuring the development of the sport’s inclusion agenda
- To promote, champion, and encourage diversity, inclusion, and equality in bowls
- To advise and make recommendations on appropriate initiatives and activities that will help the sport achieve its aims
- To positively challenge the sports commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, celebrating that commitment and addressing obstacles to its implementation
- To improve the representation and image of bowls as a sport for all and ensure inclusion is embedded throughout the sport
- To act as a forum for staff and volunteers in issues relating to diversity and inclusion
Accessibility
Sports equity is about fairness in sport, equality of access, recognising inequalities and taking steps to address them. It is about changing the culture and structure of sport to ensure it becomes equally accessible to everyone in society.
At FIBC we have:
* Disabled parking spaces
* Disabled toilet facility
* Ramps and handrails for easy access to the green
* 3 Para-handy manual wheelchairs
* Bowling arms (various sizes)
* Qualified coaches