This tip sheet provides practical ideas and initiatives to engage volunteers from multicultural communities in your club. The information was developed by the Australian Sports Commission and CMSport, with the help of people from multicultural communities.

This research report, led by Monash University and in partnership with CMSport, Koorie Heritage Trust, VicHealth, Victoria University and University of Melbourne, details the findings of a survey conducted with community sport participants in Australia examining their experiences of racism.

Being a culturally inclusive sports organisation includes being aware and respectful of different cultures in the community, and making your organisation a safe, welcoming place that caters to diversity. 

Here are our tips on how to create and maintain coach and volunteer support networks. The key takeaway is to stay connected, participate in social events, regular check-ins and ongoing support. 

This resource will help you or your organisation to navigate communicating sport to multicultural communities to ensure it’s a welcoming and inclusive space. Be curious to learn and build trusting relationships to achieve meaningful cultural inclusion.

Cultural inclusion in sport is a team game, relying on the strengths of many players to achieve success. Here are just a few organisations that could positively impact your program.

When engaging multicultural communities, the words used can be a bit daunting – so we’ve put together this resource to help understand the key words and their meaning.

This tip sheet guides sporting organisations at all levels on how to effectively design anddevelop programs that welcome young people from multicultural communities.

Coaches are a key driver of the enjoyment and inclusion that multicultural young people experience in sport. This tip sheet guides coaches and people who support coaches on how to connect with and coach multicultural young people.

Young women from multicultural backgrounds participate in sport for the same reasons that all young people do. But we must remember that when multicultural women and girls enter the sporting arena, they not only face the typical barriers faced by girls in sport, but face a range of other concerns and barriers too. 

Multicultural communities represent an untapped source of coaches, officials and volunteers for the sports sector. This resource offers practical strategies to broaden the capacity of sports to diversify its volunteer and staff base, that can be beneficial to everyone involved.

This report summarises the first year of findings of the 3-year research project ‘Informal sport as a health and social resource for diverse young people’.

This tip sheet includes some prompts and tips to consider to help ensure your sports club culture is inclusive.

This tip sheet provides some key points for sports clubs to consider when developing inclusive and welcoming social media.

This tip sheet provides some tips and guidance to help with coaching inclusively.

This tip sheet provides a few tips and strategies to help with attracting diverse members to your sports club.