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Nottingham Forest Women will be sponsored by energy provider E.ON Next for the 2024-25 season, as the football club prepares to go full-time professional from 2025. The side currently plays in The FA Women’s National League North, with all games to be played at The City Ground which is traditionally home to the men’s side.
Netball Australia has announced a new First Nations Tournament, aimed at providing greater opportunity for First Nations players. Due to take place from September 13-15 at the State Netball Centre in Melbourne, the pilot tournament will showcase under-23 teams from each state and territory in Australia. The primary goal of the First Nations Tournament, which is a collaboration between Netball Australia and its eight member organisations, is to boost the cultural awareness of non-Indigenous individuals within the netball community.
The Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (German Sports University) has launched the Sport for Development Network Germany, along with 27 other sporting organisations. The Sport for Development (S4D) Network will aim to strengthen the sector in Germany and maximise the effectiveness of using sport to accelerate development.
The Atlanta Hawks and State Farm – an insurance company that sponsors the basketball team’s arena – has called on more than 6,000 volunteers to help with the Million Meal Pack initiative. The volunteers will help assemble one million meals that will be distributed across local Atlanta communities, with the operational support of US Hunger, a hunger relief organisation. According to the Atlanta Community Food Bank, one in nine people in the state of Georgia are food insecure including one in eight children.
The Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI) has introduced the ‘Be a Guardian’ initiative, which calls upon members of the equestrian community to be ‘guardians’ of FEI horses. The message is hoping to unite the community around the FEI Action Plan, and was developed from recommendations outlined in the final report of the independent Equine Ethics and Wellbeing Commission. The commission was set up in 2022 in response to growing public concern over animal welfare.
Multimedia and news organisation Front Office Sports has released its inaugural ‘Most Sustainable list’, which was curated in collaboration with Sports Innovation Lab. Some of the organisations featured include UBS Arena, World Surf League, Liverpool Football Club, SailGP and Gillette Stadium.
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