Female Participation
2012
Women and Informal Sport click here for A report for the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation
Changing the Game, for Girls a report by the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation
2010
Young women and girls' physical activity
This factsheet summarises the recent key findings around young women and girls' participation in sport and physical activity. It brings together quantitative data from a number of sources including the NHS Information Centre, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), Youth Sport Trust (YST), Girlguiding UK and Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF).
Improving Women's Health: How an active lifestyle can benefit women
Considerable research has been carried out that demonstrates the benefits of exercise on physical, mental and social health, much of which also shows specific benefits to women and girls. This factsheet highlights this research, looking across these themes.
Marketing sport and fitness to women and girls
This guide has been designed to help you identify key steps and tools in planning a successful marketing campaign to attract more women and girls into the sport and fitness you provide. It will help you consider some important questions around: who to target, what to offer and how to communicate your message.
2009
Barriers to sports participation for women and girls
Participation rates among women and girls are much lower than men's. The many reasons for this gender gap can be grouped as practical, personal and social and cultural. This list of barriers also contains ideas for sports deliverers to implement to encourage and enable women and girls to participate.
Women and Sport at University
In September 2009 WSFF delivered a workshop at the annual BUCS conference. This factsheet captures some of the key elements of the presentation and the discussion that took place.
2008
Funding
Getting more women and girls to participate in sport and physical activity requires both commitment and an innovative approach. It may also require financial investment, so here are a few ideas as to how and where to apply for that all important funding for your project or organisation.
How can sports clubs attract and retain women and girls?
Each sports club is unique, that's part of the beauty of sport. Each team or club has its own history, its own traditions and characters as well as its own future aspirations. There is no one-size fits all approach for clubs trying to attract women and girls, but the following are core elements which the WSFF believe should be effectively implemented by most clubs.
Women in Coaching: A guide to developing your female sports coaching workforce
Since 2000 the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) has delivered targeted workforce development programmes to encourage and enable more women to become involved and develop as sports coaches. In collaboration with other organisations that have run similar programmes nationally, they make the following recommendations about growing, retaining and sustaining your female coaching workforce.
It's time: Future forecasts for women's participation in sport and physical activity
This report details the status and reasons for women's critically low levels of physical activity, and was commissioned by WSFF in order to create the debate that will lead to the first national strategy to increase women's participation.
Prime Time: The case for commercial investment in women's sport
According to UK sports fans, women's sport is exciting, skilful, internationally successful and growing faster than men's. Some of the best of women's sport is already attracting sizeable audiences and wide media interest, and there is clear demand from sports fans for more. Yet it attracts just a tiny percentage of sponsorship and broadcast expenditure: hundreds, if not thousands of times less than men's sport.
2005
Physical activity and mothers
Research into the barriers that prevent mothers with young children participating in physical activity.