It’s been an extremely busy year for the Fans for Diversity campaign – a partnership established by the FSA and Kick It Out back in 2014 – as it celebrated its 10th anniversary by continuing to open up football for all.
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This season seventh-tier side Stourbridge have been encouraging fans with disabilities along to their men’s first team games thanks to help from the Fans for Diversity campaign.
The FSA often works with academics across various fields to help understand more about the game and how the matchgoing experience can be improved for supporters. Here Dr Connor Penfold from University Campus of Football Business tells us about their research into disabled access at the match, an issue where progress is needed…
Last week the Rainbow Owls, Sheffield Wednesday’s LGBT+ supporter group, held an event at Hillsborough that showcased the benefits of the Fans for Diversity fund – and fan groups can apply for their own funding here.
World Mental Health Day takes place this week (Thursday 10th October 2024) and, as part of that, FSA associate members Talking Cherries have organised an open, unrecorded Zoom call for anyone who feels they might benefit from a little support. Click here for more details. It’s part of their growing campaign to raise awareness on mental health matters.
Last month the Asian Football Awards were held to recognise the work of the South Asian community in football – and three FSA member groups were celebrated at the event.
This weekend, Fans For Diversity campaign manager Hannah Kumari was in Merseyside with the Frank Soo foundation for an event at Prescot Cables FC to honour the pioneering East Asian player and coach.
FSA associate members Fulham Lillies say their first ever event, which was held at Craven Cottage, was a “resounding success”. Game Changers – Empowering Women Through Our Love of Football took place last month and brought together women from a range of Premier League teams for a day designed to “uplift women in the football community”.
Congratulations to FSA Board member Sachin (Sash) Patel who has been nominated in the National Diversity Awards’ Positive Role Model Award for Race, Religion & Faith – the awards are set to take place in Liverpool on Friday 4th October.
Arsenal Women Supporters Club (AWSC) are one of a number of our member groups who marked the recent South Asian Heritage month. We caught up with the chair of the group, Farah Chowdhury, to find out a little bit more…
This year the Punjabi O’s fan group has been officially recognised by Leyton Orient as they continue their work promoting the club in East London.
Middlesbrough became the latest team to celebrate the depth and breadth of their supporters with a My Club, My Shirt exhibition at the Riverside this month.
At this weekend’s FSA Annual Conference we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Fans for Diversity campaign with supporters from across the country.
At this weekend’s FSA Annual Conference we will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Fans for Diversity campaign.
Hannah Kumari’s smash hit solo-show about football and identity comes to London’s King’s Head Theatre for South Asian History month (July 25th – August 10th), starring Nikhita Lesler as Lizzie in a new production from director Max Lindsay.
You may be familiar with our Free Lions Fans’ Embassy – a mainstay of major tournaments – but Euro 2024 also provided our Fans for Diversity team a chance to take part in a special event commemorating the victims of the Holocaust in Bergen last week.
Fans for Diversity is a joint campaign between the Football Supporters’ Association and Kick It Out, which aims to ensure all supporters can feel welcome and safe at the match. On Saturday campaign manager Hannah Kumari visited Bradford City, taking in the match and a visit to BEAP Community Centre, alongside FSA associate members Bangla Bantams.
The ‘For the Love of the Game’ event was held in the National Football Museum last month to present the findings of a series of workshops on hate crime in football with fans in Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds and Berlin.
The rainbow ball campaign that ran across two rounds of EFL fixtures last month has raised £16,000 for LGBT+ supporter initiatives alongside the Fans for Diversity campaign.
The Fans for Diversity campaign, a partnership between the FSA and Kick It Out, continues to assist supporters around the country as we look to break down barriers to attending live football. And as usual the campaign has had a busy start to 2024…
