Alliance Equal Playing 4.0. for serious acceptance of LHBTi+ in sports The Alliance Equal Playing 4.0. is a cooperation of organisations to advance acceptance of LHBTi+ people in sport. The John Blankenstein Foundation is a partner, along with the Football association, the field hockey association, NOC*NSF, and the Foundation Pink Soccer Fanclubs. The alliance is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS). In November 2018, the Alliance Equalplaying 4.0. was launched with a national conference meeting. The purpose for 2028: complete acceptance of LHBTi+-people in sports in the Netherlands. Contact: www.johnblanken steinfoundation.nl ‘Come, join me’ offers new perspectives Many people can’t enjoy sport because of physical or social inabilities, even if they would want to. In the project ‘Come, join me’ (Dutch: ‘Ik neem je mee’) these people are linked to sport ambassadors, in order to lower the threshold for people towards a sporting life. Sport and physical exercise are not accessible to everyone. Some people experience obstacles to exercise due to health problems or physical or mental disability. Some have little money or do not feel comfortable in a sports environment. The exercise programme ‘Ik neem je mee’ tries to link people with a physical or mental disability or other issues that reduce their possibilities to sport to a sport ambassador, who occasionally helps and motivates. The sport ambassador is an athlete who knows what it is like to enjoy sport and likes to help someone else to experience this as well. Sport ambassadors vary from elite athletes who perform at the Olympic or Paralympic Games in Tokyo, to competitive athletes who just want to contribute. Contact www.nocnsf.nl Unique Sports maps supply and demand of disabled sports ‘Unique Sports’ is an online sport community that maps the supply and demand of sport for the people with disabilities. They can be helped by Unique Sports (Dutch: Uniek Sporten) to find a suitable sport in their region. Unique Sports consists of a website and an app for people with disabilities, their immediate surroundings, and sports clubs that connect them to information and to each other. Since 2016, 3,400 clubs, 5,600 activities, and 3,750 locations have gathered on the platform already. Our goal is to reach 1.7 million people with disabilities and their environment to get them to exercise structurally. Unique Sports offers services to support people with disabilities in starting or continuing sport such as crowdfunding, sport advice, tools, accessibility of accommodations, and much more. The online community received around 1 million unique visitors from the start of the campaign in September 2017. Unique Sports forms regional partnerships that promote sport for people with disabilities. These partnerships support sport providers who want to offer sports for the disabled, and also help people with a disability to find the right sport. In this way, athletes and sports providers can connect. Contact www.unieksporten.nl 27
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