INCLUSION - PC over the Top

[Mrs H]

Well I'm sorry to disappoint but I've looked on Safari and Firefox and even steeled myself to negotiate Internet Explorer on the children's pc and STILL I can't see it (and I did press the refresh button on all of them too!)

Now I know that I haven't always seen eye to eye with BOF but am I seriously the only person excluded from the inclusion logo shock size outcry?

[John Morris]

BOF

"linked to some shady government department"

(Ratleikur)


If you go to http://www.sportingequals.com you will find the website of Sporting Equals. Go to its "Governing Bodies" page and you will find the following:-

"The Equality Standard: A Framework for Sport

"Launched in November 2004, this standard is a framework for assisting sports organisations to widen access and reduce inequalities in sport and physical activity from under represented individuals, groups and communities, especially women and girls, ethnic minority groups and disabled people.

"The Equality Standard: A Framework for Sport is based around two broad themes: developing your organisation and developing your services. It recognises four levels of achievement: Foundation, Preliminary, Intermediate and Advanced.

"Nine partner organisations are supporting the Standard, including Sporting Equals, Sport England, UK Sport, English Federation of Disability Sport, Sport Scotland, Sports Council for Northern Ireland, The Sports Council for Wales, Women's Sports Foundation UK, and the Central Council of Physical Recreation. The Standard is administered by Vaga Associates.

"The Standard is a significant step towards making provision of sport in the United Kingdom fair, just and equal. All nine partners have contributed to the Standard."

There is much, much more...


And there's a newsletter, dated Dec 2005, which you can download!


Our valiant CEO, in defence of our dwindling grants, penned the BOF policy to satisfy this particular gang of zealots. Like Galileo denying planetary motion when facing the Inquisition, he's found it a little difficult to believe simultaneously in perfect equality and perfect diversity. So give him a break?


You'll notice, if you take a look at the website of Sprouting Inkwells (a term coined by someone quite old enough to know better) that the little grey people (and the terms "little" and "grey" as used here are to be understood as being both equal and diverse) also have plans to to extend their tentacles (sorry, that should read "benevolent concern") into sporting activity itself.

Orienteering will in future be known as Caucus Racing, following the Lewis Carroll prototype as used in the Wonderland CATI. We shall continue to have timed individual Starts and timed individual Finishes. However, in the interest of fairness, all competitors will take the same times, not only overall but also at Split level.

This may seem to remove a little of the excitement from the sport but it will mean that each competitor can be issued with his/her result as soon as they submit their entries and that the prize-giving - in which all will (naturally) receive joint First prize - can take place at the start of the event, when there are plenty of people about. The organisation of events will clearly be MUCH easier in future.

In a personal initiative I am, as an agnostic, proposing to declare myself 33% Christian agnostic, 25% Muslim agnostic, 15% Buddhist agnostic, 10% Hindu agnostic, 1% Jewish agnostic and 16% Don't know. I will, of course be willing to vary these proportions to balance up the numbers at any event where our diversity would otherwise not exactly equal the approved standard diversity measure.

I hope you will all be equally diverse and indeed diversely equal.