Policies
- Accessible communications and branding guidelines
- Anti-Bribery-policy YSF (Jan 2019)
- Complaints procedure (Nov 2017)
- Conflict of interest policy (Dec 2018)
- Diversity and inclusion policy (Jan 2021)
- Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (Oct 2020)
- Ethical Sponsorship Policy
- Photography Policy (May 2022)
- Privacy Notice (CYP) (2021)
- Privacy Notice: Programme and Activity (December 2021)
- Privacy Policy (December 2021)
- Privacy policy: Together Fund (December 2021)
- Privacy Policy (Job application) (2022)
- Roles and responsibilities
- Safeguarding children policy (Dec 2021)
- Safeguarding adults policy (Dec 2021)
- Safeguarding Policy Appendices (Dec 2021)
Board Governance
Our board members and employees strongly believe that we should be operating to the highest standards of corporate governance, equality and transparency.
This is not about ticking boxes for the sake of it, but is a genuine commitment to do the right thing. As part of this, and as a minimum, we will adhere to Sport England’s highest tier of the Code for Sports Governance along with achieving the relevant Safeguarding, Equity and Quality Standards, such as Quest.
At the heart of this is our commitment to equality and diversity that is reflected in the Board diversity policy.
We recognise and embrace the benefits of having a diverse Board, and see increasing diversity at Board level as an essential element to achieve our stated aims and objectives. A truly diverse Board will include and make good use of differences in the skills, experience, background, race, gender and other qualities of Trustees. We are committed to progressing towards achieving gender parity and greater diversity generally on our Board, including, but not limited to, Black, Asian, minority ethnic diversity and disability. As a reflection of this commitment we will achieve and maintain a maximum 70% of any single gender.
These differences will be considered in determining the makeup of the Board and be balanced appropriately whenever possible. All Board appointments are made on merit, in the context of the skills and experience required to fulfil its responsibilities.
Public documents on governance
We make the following documents publicly available as part of our commitment to good governance under the following sections of the Code for Sports Governance (see page references)
Section 2: People (p26)
2.3: We are implementing our Diversity and Inclusion Action plan (see Policies) which includes regular staff and board diversity surveys. Read our diversity statement here
2.6: Publicly advertised recruitment: For example, Trustee pack
Section 3: Communication (p27)
3.1: Information on governance, structure, strategy, activities and financial position:
- Articles of Association
- Board biographies
- Strategy and Business Plan
- Annual Governance Statement 2019
- 2019-2020 Impact Report
- 2018-19 Impact Report
- 2017-18 Impact Report
- 2016-17 Impact Report
- 2015-16 Impact Report
Board and AGM minutes: (Published when approved at next meeting)
- May 2022
- January 2022
- November 2021
- September 2021
- April 2021
- January 2021
- October 2020
- July 2020
- March 2020
- January 2020
- Previous messages on request
Accounts (published in September)
- 2020-21 Accounts
- 2019-20 Accounts
- 2018-19 Accounts
- 2017-18 Accounts
- 2016-17 Accounts
- 2015-16 Accounts
Accounts and other legal required documents are also available at Companies House
- See top of Page
Continuous improvement
Yorkshire Sport Foundation was graded ‘Very good’ by Quest in December 2018.