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Research

Understanding sport and community cohesion

The IDeA undertook desk research focused on three main areas:

  • recent applications to the Round 7 Beacon Scheme Theme ‘Sport and Culture for Hard to Reach Groups'
  • existing local authority contacts who have demonstrated good practice in community cohesion or community engagement
  • other information sources such as the internet, journals and books.

The review revealed a number of initiatives promoting sporting engagement with so called ‘hard to reach groups' e.g. BME groups, young people, disabled people etc, but less information was uncovered with regard to promoting sport as a tool for community cohesion. However, some information on interesting projects was obtained, summaries of which can be found in the Good Practice section of this toolkit. 

'The main reason different ethnic groups don't mix is not because they don't want to but because they have no reason to.'

Community Cohesion Review Report