Sports organisations ‘should have 20% BAME board members’ to tackle racism

• Sporting Equals found that only 3% of board members are black
• ‘No amount of positive messaging can hide lack of opportunities’

All publicly funded sports organisations in Britain should have at least 20% black and minority ethnic representation on their boards in order to tackle systemic racism and bias, according to the UK’s leading charity for racial equality and diversity in sport.

Arun Kang, the chief executive of Sporting Equals, urged the government to update the Code for Sport Governance to tackle the problem after its researchers found that only 3% of board members of national governing bodies are black and 64% of funded national governing bodies have no BAME board members.

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