Today formally marks International Women’s Day for 2023, and Swindon Town is taking this chance to commemorate and thank all our female staff, gamers and fans.
Imagine a gender equivalent world. One without predisposition, stereotypes and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, fair and inclusive.
Together, we can create females’s equality, which is why we are backing the latest instalment of the campaign, which is themed around #EmbraceEquity.
International Women’s Day is focused on commemorating female accomplishment and raising awareness around driving gender parity.
Here at Swindon Town, we value all our female members of staff and are lucky to have lots of working throughout our particular departments, consisting of financing, hospitality, ticketing, retail, the first-team, advocates club and a lot more.
They all play a critical function in driving us forward as a business both on and off the pitch, too throughout our Community Foundation, and have actually been essential to all our current successes.
Earlier this season, the football club revealed the combination of our females’s group, which has actually had an instant and favorable influence on the operations and profile of the females’s group, something we are extremely happy with.
It’s the club’s aspiration that Swindon Town WFC will end up being the location for the females’s video game in the area, motivating every lady to use up the sport and driving efficiency to advance through the leagues.
We are likewise actively wanting to grow the fanbase in addition to produce brand-new sponsorship opportunities and moneying to change the females’s video game in Wiltshire, moving the group to future success both on and off the pitch.
Swindon Town has likewise stepped up it’s concentrate on getting rid of sexism in football, and abuse focused on females who participate in the County Ground to enjoy our video games.
Many of you will no doubt already recognize with HerGameToo, setup by a group of female advocates who are enthusiastic about the gorgeous video game, with the objective of getting rid of the preconceptions that still surround the females’s video game to this day.
The effort is striving to make sure both females and women of any ages feel great and safe sharing their viewpoints about football both online and in reality without worry of sexist abuse.
We have Marie Melvin, our extremely own HerGameToo ambassador, offering a point of contact for anybody experiencing sexism, whether it’s on the pitch, in the football market or around supporting our fantastic club.
She works carefully with us to recognize those performing the abuse and take the proper action.
Ally Willetts is our Lead First-Team Physiotherapist and works along with Marie.
She has actually been with the club considering that 2019, at first starting with our Under-18s prior to she was offered the chance to deal with the First-Team in 2020, and has actually now been taking care of our gamers both on and off the pitch on a full-time basis considering that August in 2015.
Ally is much liked throughout the football club by all, and was actually eager to handle the function as our extremely own, ‘in-house,’ HerGameToo ambassador.
Although occurrences including females at SN1 are rare, together, both Ally and Marie are having a substantial influence on driving favorable modification in the balconies.
So, please join us in getting everybody discussing why level playing fields aren’t enough.
People start from various locations, so real addition and belonging need fair action.
For more info on the International Women’s Day, go to the main website at www.internationalwomensday.com
