Women in Sport, formerly the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF), is the UK charity that campaigns to make
physical activity
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an everyday part of life for women and girls. It was founded in 1984 as Women's Sports Foundation (WSF), or Women's Sports Foundation UK. It gains most of its funding through
Sport England
Sport England is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Its role is to build the foundations of a community sport system by working with national governing bodies of sport, and other funded partners, ...
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It has funded a range of activities from community education to elite athlete training programmes and seeks to promote women in coaching and administration positions in sport as well as competition through its Women Get Set Go course.
The organisation has a remit to research the barriers women face in sport. This varies from allocations of playing fields through to leadership positions at board level for national governing bodies. In breaking these barriers the organisation has a range of coaching schemes which offer coaching schemes to get women into basic and higher level coaching. The organisation also offers examples of best practice through its What Works for Women resource.
In 2007 WSF was re-launched as the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation by the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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at a high-profile conference held at the
Emirates Stadium
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See also
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Women's Sports Foundation
The Women's Sports Foundation (WSF) is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit charity focused on female involvement in sports. Founded in 1974 by tennis player Billie Jean King and initially supported by Olympic athletes Donna de Varona and Suzy Chaffee ...
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Women's sports organisations in the United Kingdom
Charities based in the United Kingdom
1984 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1984
Sports foundations in the United Kingdom