Racing Together announces latest webinar series bringing together new voices on key topics, from within and outside the racing industry
Racing Together is pleased to launch its third webinar series, a popular programme designed to start and accelerate conversations on some key community engagement and education topics. The free, interactive sessions will be led by a host and feature a guest panel offering informed insights and challenging colleagues to drive progress.
This series will comprise four, 45-minute episodes running from October to February. The first episode is entitled:
“The transformational impact of sport on mental and physical health”
Thursday 19th October 1-1.45pm
Zoom Webinar – free to attend
Panellists to be announced soon!
The remaining webinars will run on dates to be announced until February, covering education and employment, and exploring sport’s capacity to help others. Catch up with previous series’ episodes here.
What to expect
Topics will centre on education; health and wellbeing programmes; volunteering; diversity and inclusion; fundraising and the sport’s wider social responsibility, in line with Racing Together’s mission to support and promote racing as a force for good in society.
Viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions to the hosts and panellists and the webinars are free to attend. For those unable to join the live sessions, recordings will be available on the Racing Together website and as downloadable podcasts.
John Blake, Chief Executive of Racing Together said: “We are delighted to welcome back the Racing Together webinar series. We greatly appreciate the feedback of a wide variety of panellists and a growing number of subscribers. We aim to link the important themes of the first two series to reflect new developments in and outside of racing, and to take important conversations forward.”
The full Racing Together webinar series schedule will be confirmed in due course, sign up to our newsletter here to find out about future episodes first.
Continued Professional Development
Those taking part in the webinars are also encouraged to visit Racing2Learn to explore the various community engagement free eLearning modules available to them, including:
- The Role and Purpose of Community Engagement in British Horseracing
- Supporting Safe and Responsible Gambling
- Volunteering in British Horseracing
And many others available via the platform.