Darcy Bourne named winner of Social Influence Award on the UK Sport PLx Awards for her work throughout her charity Elevating Her Sport and Past our Sport.
The annual occasion was hosted in Leeds, the place 9 award winners from the sector throughout Olympic and Paralympic sports activities have been celebrated by their friends.
The Social Influence Award recognises the game, workers or athlete that has had a optimistic impression on their neighborhood.
Bourne based ‘Elevating her Sport’ which has created areas in Hockey for women of all backgrounds to really feel welcome, protected, and impressed. She has adopted this by co-founding ‘Past our Sport’ devoted to bettering range and illustration in Ladies’s sport. Each initiatives have had actual social impression in Hockey.
On her award, she stated: “Truthfully, I’m a bit shocked – this award means a lot. We’re such a younger charity so to be recognised for an award like this, I’m feeling very proud, grateful and excited for our future.
“We’ve achieved greater than we hoped to at this level and we’ve had so many ladies come all the way down to camp who say they’ve by no means performed a sport exterior of college earlier than. This reveals what is feasible while you take away limitations and put optimistic feminine function fashions in place.
“For the time being, we’re making an attempt to determine how we will continue to grow and scale up – the necessity is there and the mannequin is working. The Olympic and Paralympic high-performance neighborhood got here collectively to have fun a 12 months of extraordinary sporting moments on the 2025 PLx Awards.”
The Awards are a part of PLx, the annual convention for leaders from the high-performance neighborhood to attach, collaborate and be taught. The 2025 PLx Awards have been hosted by embellished Paralympians Stef Reid MBE and Emma Wiggs.
