Mr. Aidan Walsh:

Similar to what a lot of my colleagues have said, education is a huge part of it. We can let people know that people are different and work on the inclusion side of it. We would love support. We are a volunteer body and we do everything from the funding we have generated ourselves.

We would love to be running educational programmes for every sports club in the country about what makes LGBT people unique. A large part of our remit is supporting the 40 LGBT sports clubs throughout the country. They are safe and welcoming places for LGBT people to come together and meet others like them in order to develop and grow. Education is a large part of it. Sporting Pride can be a solution to this if we can be given funding to allow us to educate sports clubs, sports bodies and local sports partnerships about what is unique about the LGBT experience in sport. Education is a key part of how we develop this, how to change it at a youth level and how to develop it in sports clubs throughout the country.