Level Playing Field

We believe that attending and engaging with live sporting events has a positive impact on wellbeing. We work at every level to ensure that disabled funds can freely access and enjoy live sport. Disability is the largest minority group in any population and yet 50% of disabled people have never attended a live entertainment or sports event. By promo... ting a positive, inclusive experience for disabled sports fans Level Playing Field works with clubs and stakeholders to raise awareness and make their facilities and practices accessible to all. Level Playing Field embraces the 'social model of disability' and promotes the removal of barriers that might prevent a disabled spectator from attending or enjoying a live sports event. Those barriers could be environmental or physical barriers in a building, organisational such as inflexible policies, practices, and procedures or attitudinal including stereotyping, discrimination, or prejudice. Level Playing Field wants to ensure that disabled people have a matchday experience that is equal to that of non-disabled supporters whenever they attend live sport. We do this through our four key pillars of work - for the fans, for the clubs, as a knowledge centre and through our campaigns. Through these pillars, we provide support and advocacy for disabled fans; access audits and staff training, expert advice, guidance and services to clubs and governing bodies, to design teams to implement accessible facilities at the earliest stage, and campaigning to keep the disability agenda at the top of everyone's mind. We have come a long way and this year sees our 17th Weeks of Action campaign when we all come together; clubs, governing bodies, and fans themselves, to celebrate good access and inclusion and to highlight why attending live sport is so important. The irony of the whole situation is that this year everyone, whether they are disabled or not, is currently at home waiting for the "Return of Fans". So, Level Playing Field is working with clubs and governing bodies to make sure ...Read More