Welcome to the Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Webpage!

The Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Committee (DIEC) was established in early 2024.  

Its membership currently comprises:

• Ron Millet (Chair) – bridgeron@bridging-thegap.co.uk
• Ruth Kerr (Secretary) – ruthvkerr@gmail.com
• Robin Jepson – robinjepson1951@gmail.com
• Vanessa Jervis – vanessajervis@icloud.com

An initial focus of our activity was to undertake a review of the disability access arrangements in affiliated clubs and the provision of information regarding these arrangements.  Learning and good practice from the Disability Access Scoping Exercise which has been shared with clubs can be found under DIEC YCBA Documents.  A new YCBA Grant – Disabled Persons’ Club Improvement, has also been introduced.  Details of the grant which is project match-funded (50%) up to £1,250 grant value were sent to clubs on 27/01/25.

A YCBA Diversity Inclusion and Equality Policy has been developed and was approved by the YCBA Management Board on 21/05/25.

We are now prioritising work in the following areas: –

• Developing a model Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Policy for Clubs.
• Reviewing YCBA processes for diversity.

These and other identified actions have been collated into an action plan which is a living document which we regularly review and update.  A copy of the most recently updated version of our action plan can be found by selecting DIEC Action Plan.

Minutes of our meetings are published on the YCBA website on the Official Documents webpage which can be accessed via the DIEC Minutes.

Other relevant documents will be published on these webpages at regular intervals. There are documents published by the DIEC on the DIEC YCBA Documents and documents from external sources are published on DIEC External Documents.

Please visit these webpages regularly and follow the links to existing and new items that are posted.

We are very keen to have input from our membership to help inform the scope of our work.  Please do get in touch if you have any suggestions, comments or queries. These can be directed to any of the committee members listed above.