Sports Charter

The Sports Charter calls for anyone and everyone with a sporting interest or involvement to unite and tackle homophobia and transphobia in sport.

We launched the Sports Charter in March 2011 with the backing of five major sporting bodies and the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). Now, over a year later, the Charter has gained support from all over the UK, and has over 3,300 signatories.

Supporting the Sports Charter

To date over 3,300 sporting bodies, clubs, professional athletes, celebrities and sports fans have signed the Sports Charter and committed to taking action.

Signatories include Billie Jean-King, Ben Cohen, Martina Navratilova, Gareth Thomas, Stephen Fry and David Furnish.

On 2 February 2012, the Charter received a boost when every football club in the Premier League signed up, followed on 28 February by the Football League, which represents 72 professional clubs in England and Wales.

All these clubs are fully committed to challenging discrimination and working to rid footaball of homophobic and transphobic abuse, both in the stands and on the field.

A full list of the organisations, sports stars and celebrities that have backed the Charter is now available.

How to sign the Sports Charter

To show your support for the Sports Charter you can visit and 'like' the I love sport but I hate homophobia and transphobia Facebook page, and you can also email us with your messages of support.

We'll update the growing list of signatories every few months.

Turning committment into action

You can help spread the message that discrimination of any kind has no place in sport by letting your teams, players and fans know what you are doing to tackle homophobia and transphobia.

The communications toolkit includes a number of resources to help you demonstrate this:

• top tips for getting the message out
• features articles for club magazines or programmes and sport National Governing Body
• a press notice, poster, flyer and leaflet

Launch of Sports Charter logo

Following a nationwide competition and many impressive entries, we unveiled the new logo for the Sports Charter on 22 March 2012 to mark the one year anniversary of the Charter's launch.

The winning logo was designed by a 10-year-old student from Hungerford Primary School, after her teacher organised for the entire Year 5 and 6 to take part in the competition. Former Rugby Union international Ben Cohen helped shortlist the top six designs, which were then put to public vote on his website and the Sports Charter Facebook page.

Sports clubs, fans and players across the country can now use the logo to publicly mark their support for the campaign.

To kick this off, we are encouraging all Facebook and Twitter users to pin the new logo on their profile picture through the Twibbons application. More information on how to take part is available on our Facebook page .

No.10 summit on tackling discrimination in football

On 22 February 2012, football authorities, former players and campaign groups took part in a summit at Number 10 to discuss discrimination in football. They agreed to come up with a joint action plan by April 2012, to ensure both the grassroots and professional games are inclusive to all.