South-Wales Evening Post
June 9, 2014
A BOSS of a race council in Swansea has called for positive role models to encourage ethnic minority youngsters into sport.
Uzo Iwobi, chief executive officer of the city branch of the Race Council Cymru, said she believed a lack of role models from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities was having a knock-on effect in terms of the level of youngsters involved in sport.
She is throwing her backing behind a Sport Wales’s drive to get more people from BAME communities to take up a range of different sporting activities.
Findings show people from ethnic backgrounds are also less likely to get involved in sport as a volunteer, administrator or spectator compared with those who are white.