Pride Sports is committed to a partnership approach in the delivery of all services where a need is identified. Working in partnership ensures that good practice is developed and disseminated effectively through the pooling of expertise. It reduces the risk of replication and ensures best value. This particularly pertinent in a sector of fragmented, unfunded, hard to reach community sports groups.
Examples of Pride Sports enabling partners in both the community and voluntary, and private sectors include the following:
National LGBT Sports Network
Formed in 2008, a new national network for collaborative working, knowledge sharing and raising the profile of lgbt sports and leisure events across the UK. A new web site for the steering group is planned for the first quarter of 2010.
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European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation (EGLSF)
Pride Sports' Lou Englefield is a board member of EGLSF, enabling greater reach and influence as part of pride Sports strategy towards 2014.
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EGLSF Newsletters Jan 09 Feb 09 March09
click here to view report by EGLSF Antwerp 2007 conference against homophobia in sport
F.A.R.E. Football Against Racism
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Federation Of Gay Games (FGG)
The Federation of Gay Games perpetuates the quadrennial Gay Games and safeguards its founding principles of Participation, Inclusion, and Personal Best™. An all-volunteer organisation, the Federation is made up of individuals and organisations representing four continents. The Federation consists of a board of directors and an assembly of organisations.
Gay & Lesbian International Sports Association (GLISA)
GLISA grows LGBT sport by facilitating partnerships for the successful delivery of World and Continental OutGames; we share expertise and best-practices with and among member organizations around the world to nurture growth and sustainability; and we partner with a broad variety of organizations, both LGBT and mainstream, to build bridges that help us further our activities and visibility while celebrating our culture through sport.
George House Trust (GHT)
The North West’s leading HIV charity, with whom Positively Healthy was piloted and who work to recruit HIV+ gay men to participate in the project, and who have identified the need to extend the project to HIV+ Africans.
Age Concern
Age Concern facitiate an older peoples network social group, that in turn organises monthly health walks. In 2008 they ran an over 50s health walk for Pride Games.
LGBT Youth North West
The regional LGBT youth work organisation with which Pride Sports has developed Activ8 and the annual Youth Games.
Greater Sports Partnership
The Greater Sports Partnership has supported Pride Sports with e-mail publicity, resourcing coaches and with mutually beneficial networking opportunities.
Manchester City Council
Manchester City Council have supported Activ8 through their Positive Futures programme both in terms of the provision of sports venues and high level football coaching through Manchester City and Manchester United Football clubs.
Manchester Leisure
Recently initiated delivery partnership to enable greater resource is available to facilitate an increased rate of capacity building and more affordable event delivery
Proud City Co-op
Proud City is an marketing and delivery partner with which Pride Sports has registered as an associate centre for the delivery of the City & Guilds Individual Profile in Active Citizenship.
Salford City Council
Salford City Council have provided marketing support for Pride Games.
Real Manchester / Real City Network
Real Manchester provides PrideGames web services as a sponsor and supports Pride Sports with community photography galleries that are publicised nationally along with press releases and news items. Additionally Real Manchester bring together new partners across the voluntary and private sectors for mutual benefit.
Village Businesses
Pride Sports has enlisted the support of businesses within Manchester’s ‘Gay Village’ as entertainment partners for Pride Games events. Most notably, these include The White Bell Group, Taurus and Serendipity.
In addition Pride Sports has worked with Hot Village, ‘the LGBT pocket Guide to Manchester’ to produce Pride Games programmes as well as the original version of ‘Pride Through Sport’ 2007, now branded ‘Out and Active’ from 2008 to reflect its much greater connectivity and reach.