Lead by the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA), Sport Diversity Cymru is an initiative, established to increase sporting participation amongst ethnic minority communities across Wales.

Formerly known as ‘BME Sport Cymru’ project was set up in 2016 to support a sustainable approach to sports participation, with 3 main priorities:

• Increase BME participation in sport
• Build capacity for BME engagement in sport
• Tackle inequality

Sport Diversity Cymru offers free training and guidance to the sport sector to increase knowledge, awareness of barriers and how to engage effectively with different ethnically diverse groups, with a focus on how to make sports clubs more welcoming and inclusive for people from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds.

It also works in collaboration with other sporting and national partners to tackle inequalities in sporting participation and facilitate research and insight that are shared with the sector.