Issue 3/2025 features an in-depth interview with Yvonne Harrison, CEO of Women in Football, in which she charts her career and outlines her current work. Women in Football aims to improve women’s representation at all levels of the game by challenging discrimination and lobbying for change in the sport industry.
There is also a wide-ranging article on padel and how the sport has taken the UK by storm. This is accompanied by a special section on padel, which acts as the launch edition of PadelNation – SportsNation’s new sister publication.
Elsewhere, there is a look at examples of how creating indoor facilities for traditionally outdoor sports – football and cricket – can transform and improve a community’s access to safe and inclusive spaces to play sport in.
Owen Faunt and Matt Bonney from GCP Architects also offer an architect’s perspective on mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG).