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Southampton and Virgin Media will be promoting the work of Scope by handing over the team’s shirt sponsorship to the leading disability campaign group this weekend.

Maria Horner, the FSF’s newest member of staff, tells us why she wants to hear from fans, supporter groups and clubs to promote diversity at non-league level…

Our Fans for Diversity campaign is seeking volunteers to take part in a Guidance Group to help it grow over the coming years.

A free programme of speakers, workshops , culture and leisure strands for LGBT+ football fans, campaigners, club & league staff will be taking place in Nottingham next month.

The Football Supporters’ Federation is a democratic, membership-based organisation working to represent the interests of football supporters in England and Wales. The FSF runs the ‘Fans For Diversity’ campaign in close partnership with Kick It Out, football’s equality and inclusion organisation.

The Fans For Diversity campaign has released a four-part mini-documentary series featuring four supporters groups across the country to highlighting the diversity of fanbases in English football.

As the safe standing campaign has progressed over recent years more and more spurious arguments have emerged about why it can’t happen in England – one example is that safe standing will exclude disabled supporters. Here former FSF national council member, and wheelchair-using Arsenal fan, Steve Powell tells us why the Orlando City Stadium debunks that myth…

Crystal Palace and the Fans for Diversity campaign, run by the FSF and Kick It Out, are joining together to host an event which will see a panel of experts discuss the current issues and challenges surrounding discrimination in football.

Fans for Diversity looked back on another hugely successful 12 months by launching its 2017 report in Parliament yesterday. The campaign, which is run jointly by the Football Supporters’ Federation and Kick It Out, started in 2014 and has made huge strides in that time.

The Fans for Diversity campaign continues to go “from strength to strength” says campaign lead Anwar Uddin as its third annual report is published.

(Pictured above: Humayun Islam of Bangla Bantams, winners of last year’s Fans for Diversity Award, with Roisin Wood from Kick It Out.)

Doncaster Rovers fans have created an exhibition to remember club cult hero Charlie Williams. We spoke to FSF deputy chair & Viking Supporters Co-operative‘s Martin O’Hara about why they wanted to celebrate his life…

Many clubs are located in diverse areas, yet struggle to get black and ethnic minority supporters into their grounds. We spoke to Bik Singh from Blues 4 All about what their group has been doing to help the club tap into the local asian community…

Southampton’s now annual Accessibility Day took place recently with support from the Fans for Diversity campaign – and was a success once more. 

Lincoln City have had a great season on the pitch, winning the National League and securing promotion to the EFL. Things have been happening off the pitch too, with the creation of the club’s first women-led fan group, the Lady Imps Supporters Association (LISA).

The founder of Brentford’s LGBeeT group Gemma Teale tells us about last week’s #CallitOut symposium – an event held in Manchester celebrating the growth of the LGBT fan movement…

The work of the Fans for Diversity campaign, which we run in conjunction with Kick It Out, featured on the BBC’s One Show last night.

Anwar Uddin has had a busy spring period, leading the Fans for Diversity campaign with events across the country…

Along with our friends at Goalsoul we’re celebrating 160 years of football at  an event in Sheffield this month.

FSF National Council member and Arsenal fan Steve Powell has been a wheelchair user for nearly four years now. Things are better than they were. They’re still a long way from perfect on Planet Football though. Steve tells us more…