Football Victoria - Increasing Female Participation
Introduction
The following workbook has been adapted from the „Triple G: Girls Get Going in Football, club workbook‟ which was designed to assist clubs to engage, re-engage and retain females in sport.
The workbook was originally developed by the University of Ballarat, in conjunction with Football Federation Victoria and other partners as part of the Triple G: Girls Get Going program, which aimed to develop a co-operative link between school physical education curriculum and community sports clubs.
FFV is pleased to provide our member clubs with this revised version of the workbook, containing the relevant information and assessment activities that FFV clubs can utilise to assist them with:
1. Assessing their current club environment in regards to female members and participants,
2. Creating strategies which lead to building a better club environment for attracting and retaining females,
3. and ultimately increasing female participation. Included in this workbook are three key sections from the original workbook.
Section 1 (Club Checklist – how does your club “actively” support the inclusion of females?) is the warm up activity for your club committee and contains a „club checklist‟ to encourage you to reflect and discuss current club practices specifically aimed at females.
Section 2 is titled Key Facts and Strategies for Engaging Young Females, and provides a summary of the barriers and facilitators to participation in sport by young females. This section requires you to identify key issues that relate to your club and to identify strategies that might help overcome participation barriers experienced by females.
Section 3 is Club Action Plan, which is designed to help your club prioritise activities and implement your strategies to engage, re-engage and retain female participants. Completing this workbook should be seen as a crucial first step for any club wanting to create a female friendly environment, and better engage young females as players.
Clubs that already successfully engage females may find the exercise equally useful for auditing their current strategies and potentially finding new strategies to implement. For some examples of other clubs‟ work in this area please visit www.footballfedvic.com.au and look for Best Practice Project (under Clubs subheading).
For any other enquiries please phone FFV on 9474 1800.
