Starting Blocks – Setting the Pace on Race Equity in Sport

RII domains: all eight (this session works through the full 32-item Bronze self-assessment).

Pillar 1 – Leadership & Governance & Pillar 2- Inclusion by Design

A hands-on working session that picks up where the morning’s Charter introduction left off. This session does not re-explain what the Charter is. Delegates go straight into assessing their own organisation against the Bronze requirements, identifying what they already have in place and what is missing, and drafting their first commitments. The session is a practical clinic that enables delegates to start making plans.

Output: a preliminary Bronze readiness and evidence map with potential strengths, evidence requiring verification, and priority gaps, together with a draft 90-day action plan. This exercise does not constitute an assessment and does not determine whether Bronze has been achieved.

RII domain: 7 – Evidence, Insight & Learning (and the per-domain evidence statements that support every Bronze submission).

Pillar 4 – Data & Accountability

A data and measurement session focused on what good race equity evidence looks like at Bronze stage including what to count, how to count it well, and how to pair representation data with early measures of inclusion and belonging. The session covers qualitative as well as quantitative evidence, data quality, confidentiality, small sample sizes, and the distinction between evidence that an activity occurred and evidence of embedded organisational capability. It must be practical: delegates look at what their organisation already collects, where the gaps and quality problems are, and what they can realistically start gathering now.

Output: a picture of what data their organisation already holds versus what it needs, and a short list of priority measures to begin collecting at Bronze stage.

RII domain: 5 – Community Power.

Pillar 3 – Community Power

Led by members of our Community Advisory Panel (named, briefed and appropriately compensated for preparation and delivery), this session moves system partners from talking about under-served communities to co-designing aspects of their organisation with them. Delegates audit psychological safety in their own organisation and work through what genuine co-design looks like versus after-the-fact consultation. These are practical first steps they can take at Bronze stage.

Outputs: a psychological safety audit; and a community-influence map – the practical redesign of one organisational decision or programme, showing when communities become involved, what authority they hold, how their contribution is resourced, and how the organisation reports back on what changed.

RII domain: 4 – Culture, Belonging & Wellbeing (Wellbeing Support and Psychological Safety indicators).

Pillar 5 – Wellbeing and Safety

This session is for the people who carry race equity work inside their organisations and who most often undertake its emotionally laborious aspects. It names the real cost of this work — burnout, vicarious and racial trauma, and the isolation of often being the only one doing it in large organisations that do not equip staff with the resources they need. The emphasis is on organisational responsibility, not individual resilience: the session offers practical strategies for protecting wellbeing and building supportive structures around the work so it lasts. Facilitated by a specialist practitioner; delegate materials will set out what the session involves so people can opt in knowingly.

Output: an organisational support plan covering senior sponsorship, protected time, workload, supervision, access to specialist support, escalation arrangements and appropriate resourcing for those undertaking race-equity work.