This weekend, we will be supporting Level Playing Field’s Unite For Access campaign, raising awareness about disabled sports fans.
Live sport brings people with little in common together in stadiums across the UK, to collectively support their team.
They are strangers for most of the week, but for a short period of time they are neighbours, friends, and family caught up in the euphoria - and sometimes heartache - we all know live sport can bring.
This is not always the case for disabled sports fans.
The ability to drive change is not the responsibility of just one individual, but the whole community – this has been the belief of Level Playing Field over years of successful campaigns. This year and beyond, the charity is excited to bring this expectation to reality through ‘Unite For Access’.
Sport is a unique and vital part of the social tissue that binds communities and brings about a sense of belonging, and disabled people must not be excluded from this because of their disability.
Therefore, Level Playing Field calls on all clubs and supporters, disabled and non-disabled, to Unite for Access. Live sport brings people with little in common together in stadiums across the UK, to collectively support their team.
Over the years the annual Level Playing Field campaign has seen hundreds of sports clubs, associations, and organisations, along with thousands of supporters, celebrate good access and inclusion throughout live sport by pulling on t-shirts, rolling out banners, and sharing disabled fans’ stories.
But we know that there is still so much to do.
We want clubs and supporters to continue the fantastic, vital support for the Unite for Access campaign, but that alone is not enough.
The charity is asking clubs and supporter groups to pledge their support and to actively participate in the campaign to improve access and inclusion for disabled sports fans.
History has shown that we are strongest when we work together... for your brother, sister, father, mother, friend, or for the stranger – let us all Unite for Access.
