The SCA is working hard towards making our sport more inclusive as you will have seen in recent articles in Scottish Paddler and on the website.  Our ultimate aim is to remove barriers connected to all nine protected characteristics. Through our second stage of Equality Group recruitment, we are focusing on how to make paddlesport as welcoming and inclusive for those who are passionate about:

• Encouraging more people from ethnic minority communities to participate in paddlesport
• Encourage more people facing mental health challenges into paddling 

With this in mind the SCA Equality Group decided the best way to move this forward was to form a group to work on each of these areas. Equality Groups, such as the Female Equality Group and Disability Equality Group, have  been formed as you may have already seen and have already begun to take positive action. 

The next stage is to form the following groups; 

• Ethnicity Equality Group
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Equality Group

For this all to work we really need your help to make it happen.  If you would like to volunteer and get involved with any of these groups you can contact the Equality Group equality@canoescotland.org saying which group you are interested in supporting and why you would like to get involved.  Closing date for these groups is Wed, 24th Feb.

For more information on these groups, please click here to visit our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion pages.

Additional Documents

• Ethnicity Equality Group Terms of Reference
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Equality Group Terms of Reference