In this episode of the Off The Water podcast we dive into equality, diversity and inclusion.

This is a clearly a huge area and can be perceived in many ways by different groups and individuals. To provide some insights we asked two new members of the RYA Scotland team to hold a discussion on the topic to bring out some key themes for them around the perception of our sport and to share their experiences and realities of the topic.

Georgia Moran has just joined as the Regional Development Officer for the East after a number of years working with Scottish Student Sport, while Robyn Phillips takes on the new role of Training Development Officer after working with Aberdeenshire Sailing Trust. They both share a passion for equality and inclusion within sport, bringing experiences on gender equality, LGBT, accessibility and aspects of financial inequality in projects they have been involved in.

Hosts Nikki Stewart and Liza Linton help set some context during a time of International Women’s Day and the launch of the RYA Strategy of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion which aims to create more opportunities for all to get on the water.

To provide wider context sportscotland conducted research in March 2020 around Equality and sport and is available below:

https://sportscotland.org.uk/about-us/our-publications/archive/equality-and-sport-research-2020/

The RYA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2021-2030:

https://www.rya.org.uk/about-us/rya-policies/equality/Pages/RYA-Equality-Diversity-and-Inclusion-Strategy.aspx