Hello social-sportive enthusiast!

Welcome to our dialogue and reflection tool, ‘Social-Sportive Net(work). Building Accessible Networks Together.’

​We understand that you're already quite accessible, even surpassing many other initiatives in this regard. Your passion for sport, combined with your social engagement, is the unique blend that makes this possible. You are opening doors to sport, youth, or other leisure initiatives, via sport as a powerful tool. You help young people, the elderly, individuals with disabilities, people with a migrant background, and many other groups who experience barriers. You get people moving in ways that suit their needs, interests, and abilities. You support them in many ways, personalised and responsive to their specific needs. It’s impressive and very special. You have every right to take pride in what you achieve.

With this tool, we aim to help you highlight your strengths in providing accessible opportunities, to explore your identity together, and to find the language to articulate what you perhaps often do intuitively. Additionally, we want to assist you in mapping out your network of partners and help identify barriers within that network, so that accessibility can be fully realised. How can you transform what is a barrier today into a lever for change tomorrow? And do so in collaboration with others? How can you improve mutual understanding between partners to ensure that fewer individuals are overlooked or excluded? Thus, while we initially encourage you to reflect on the barriers for participants, we also highlight the obstacles you might face as an initiative and encourage you to think about them.

We aim to enhance accessibility through two complementary movements: from the outside in and from the inside out. From the outside in, social-sportive initiatives identify and leverage resources from external partners to contribute to greater accessibility. For example, think of initiatives that work with non-native speakers to translate social-sportive communication for multilingual groups. From the inside out, these social-sportive programmes help other partners improve the accessibility of their own initiatives or within local communities. An example could be a social-sportive initiative encouraging traditional sports clubs to offer financially accessible activities.

Through our dialogue and reflection tool, we aim to help you enhance accessibility in collaboration with others. After all, accessibility should be a shared responsibility.

With this tool, we only wish to further encourage you. We’ve been cheering you on faithfully, and now we want to continue the journey with you.

Good luck!