3. Kick It Out Equality Charter
Kick It Out is an organisation that encourages equality and works throughout the football and educational sectors to challenge discrimination. The organisation is inspiring as many grassroots clubs as possible to support the fight for equality in football by encouraging inclusive practices and to campaign for positive change. It has also helped enact a huge cultural shift in the approach of individual supporters, clubs and footballing institutions towards equality.
At grassroots and in the professional game, Kick It Out is a reporting bureau that will raise incidents of discrimination with the relevant authorities and support victims through the process. The organisation has supported thousands of victims since its inception, and has created a number of educational resources which teach stewards how to correctly identify discrimination towards marginalised groups. Whether it’s attempting to enact cultural change or offering support to victims of discrimination, Kick It Out has been a leading organisation in attempting to achieve cohesion in British society.
We at North Leigh Football Club are fully committed to:
• Adhering to the equality, inclusion and discrimination guidelines set out by Kick It Out and have adopted and aligned our procedures and policies accordingly.
• Providing and ensuring a safe environment for all participants by applying equality, diversity and inclusion in our day-to-day operations.
• Promoting awareness of the benefits of equality, inclusion and diversity with a clear understanding that football belongs to and should be enjoyed by anyone who wants to participate in it.
• Ensuring we do not discriminate or treat anyone less favourably on the grounds of age, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, race nationality, ethnic origin, colour, religion/belief, ability or disability.
• Not tolerating harassment, bullying, abuse or victimisation of any kind, and will assure the correct reporting procedures are actioned if any of the mentioned does occur under our supervision.
• We are committed to taking action where inequalities exist!!
• Taking a stance to see good practice is encouraged internally and with our sponsors, partners and the wider community.
• Fully educating all club officials, volunteers, supporters and players on the procedures around reporting of incidents of discrimination; including through the appointed officials, our county FA and/or the Kick It Out website and app.
If you would like to learn more about Kick It Out, then we certainly recommend checking out their website by clicking here.....and why not check out their social media platforms at the same time....
It is important to remember….you can report an incident of discrimination in football - whether it took place online or at a grassroots, non-league or professional game - by filling in the online reporting form, which can be found by clicking here.
We are also advocating the use of the Kick It Out app to report any incident of discrimination, you could download that by clicking here for the Apple Store version, or, clicking here for the Google Play version.
Team/Club Representatives -
Club - Edward Todd, Welfare Officer
First Team - Mark Bosley, Fixtures Secretary
Development Side - Nick Heritage, Team Manager
Over 50's Vet's - TBC
U14 Girls - Anna Thompson, Team Admin
U14 Boys - Tamzin Allen, Kick It Out Rep.
U9 Boys - Dean Mays, Team Manager