Tottenham Hotspur congratulated on being the only premiership club to join Business Disability Forum
London, UK – Business Disability Forum is pleased to welcome Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and the award-winning Tottenham Hotspur Foundation to its prestigious membership. Membership of Business Disability Forum will further strengthen and develop the club’s disability focus.
Equality and inclusion are fundamental to the work carried out by the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation. Their projects and programmes actively support the equality of opportunity, inclusion and development of people within areas such as sports and physical activity, education and training, volunteering and employment. Tottenham Hotspur are also part of the ‘Level Playing Field’ campaign, which allows clubs to highlight the positive work that they do for their disabled supporters.
Tottenham Hotspur FC & Tottenham Hotspur Foundation join the many organisations from the private and public sector that are already benefitting from Business Disability Forum’s membership and can now access the best practice advice and guidance, learning from the best in UK’s industry to become disability-smart.
Members and Partners of the Forum represent a variety of industries; from investment banks to broadcasters, from government departments to restaurants and supermarkets.
David Goodchild, Director of Membership and Business Development at Business Disability Forum said:
"Having Tottenham Hotspur & Tottenham Hotspur Foundation join our membership demonstrates how sports and entertainment organisations are viewing disability. We hope to build a strong relationship and help them embed a ‘disability-smart’ approach throughout their business."
James Isaac, equalities & inclusion manager, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation said:
“Tottenham Hotspur has a world renowned heritage and an ever expanding fan base. So we endeavour to ensure that our ground, its facilities, services and all the work we do is accessible and inclusive. We believe that our membership to Business Disability Forum is pivotal to helping set the benchmark for disability and being a strong example, not only to other football clubs, but other businesses as well.”
Notes to editors
- Business Disability Forum is a not-for-profit business consortium that represents some 400 organisations that employ 20% of the UK workforce. Formerly called the Employers’ Forum on Disability, the company has more than twenty years’ experience of working with public and private sector employers and service providers. For more information about the Forum please visit: http://businessdisabilityforum.org.uk/about-us
- For more information on Tottenham Hotspur FC please visit: http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/home/ and you can read about their foundation here: http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/foundation/
- For more information on Level Playing Fields, please visit: http://www.levelplayingfield.org.uk/
- Why bother? http://businessdisabilityforum.org.uk/why-bother/the-evidence
- For more information on joining Business Disability Forum’s membership http://businessdisabilityforum.org.uk/uploads/files/Full%20membership%20list%20-%20March%202014.docx , please contact David Goodchild, Director of Membership & Business Development: davidg@businessdisabilityforum.org.uk
- For media enquiries please contact Kevin Scott, Communications & Marketing Officer: kevins@businessdisabilityforum.org.uk
Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
- Tottenham Hotspur Foundation is committed to providing the best sports, health, training, and education programmes for the Club’s local community; creating opportunities, encouraging enterprise and innovation, promoting social cohesion and enhancing life skills.
- The Foundation uses sport, and in particular football, as a vehicle to create life changing opportunities for children, groups and individuals within the community. This is achieved by working with a wide range of partners including central and local government departments, schools, colleges, businesses and charitable trusts to design programmes that engage with all sections of the community.
- Activities are based on a belief that engagement through sport can result in far more than developing sports skills. It can harness a sense of mutual respect and trust, widen horizons, raise aspirations and provide opportunities to young people regardless of race, sex or age.
- Tottenham Hotspur Foundation was established as a Registered Charity in 2006 with significant investment from Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. The Foundation has created 2.4 million life-changing opportunities for people in the local community since then, providing 6,500 hours of activity with 8,000 participants every week.
- The Foundation has provided over 13,000 sporting opportunities per year for disabled people.
- Tottenham Hotspur Foundation provides support and expertise to 110 organisations across Greater London in how to provide Inclusive Sports Opportunities.
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