Seeking feedback from your local community, including people with a disability is a very useful exercise and one which your organisation should undertake regularly. Continue to seek feedback in regard to any programs/participation opportunities that your sporting organisations offer, to continue to make sure what you offer is a good quality inclusive activity.
The Office for Disability has a useful resource about creating accessible surveys. Click here to download it. You can also click here to download their resource about communicating with people with disability.
You could use a free resource like Survey Monkey to help design and distribute a survey. The Club Help website offers three surveys that you can adapt to construct your survey:
Surveys can help you find out more about who lives in your local community, their general interests and sport participation levels. Use this information to identify relevant activities and opportunities for your sport to engage the community and make improvements to what it is already doing.
During the Everyone Wins program, State Sporting Associations found that surveying members provided useful information which led to more targeted programs to increase participation by women and girls.
Many organisations already produce useful information about Victorian communities, and your sport organisation can tap into this information. For example, you can seek information from your local council, other community groups, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and VicHealth.
- In 2016, VicHealth released its Victorian Health Indicators resources, which provide a snapshot about the health and wellbeing status of local government areas.
- Sport and Recreation Spatial provides data about sport and recreation participation, sport and recreation facilities, population demographics and population health.
- AusPlay provides data around participation rates in sport and physical activity for children and adults, as well as summaries of the key barriers and drivers to participation in sport. Results and new data tables are released every 6 months.