This video consists of interview clips with the chair, committee and participants of the women’s LGBTQIA+ basketball club Manchester Lynx.
The video begins with the Sport England logo alongside The Behavioural Architects logo on a black background.
The video shows the chair of Manchester Lynx, Georgia, sitting down talking to the camera.
She says: “Our mantra is that we welcome everyone.”
The video shows a shot of a basketball court. After a pause, participants come into view running the length of the court.
The voice of a coach says: “So 50 percent of your max speed.”
Georgia continues: “We love training people from bottom up.”
Participants run back across the length of the court in the opposite direction.
The chair says: “And it's amazing seeing people who've never played before then able to play for the team.”
The video goes back to Georgia sitting down talking to the camera.
She says: “When it comes to LGBTQIA rights, but also being an open and multicultural team...”
The video shows an up close shot of a basketball and then switches to a shot of a basketball court with the participants stretching.
Georgia continues: “... this openness, I think, is the catalyst for bringing more and more people through our doors and having high retention numbers.”
The video pans to and then focuses on one coach.
She says: “It's about building momentum and then releasing that in an explosion.”
The video cuts to the same woman standing on the side of the basketball court and speaking to the camera.
She says: “When I first kind of started helping out coaching, I really took a back seat and was just like, 'where are people at? What are the actual needs that these people have?'”
The video cuts to participants walking on the basketball court. One participant throws the ball to another.
The video cuts back to the coach standing on the side of the court and speaking to the camera
She says: “This is a fun space. This is a space for people to feel welcome and engaged and excited to learn, not pushing them to, you know, elite boundaries and stuff like that. You know, like, like it's a community club.”
The video shows two participants interacting with the ball, then a group of participants at the side of the basketball hall talking and drinking water.
The video cuts to another participant who is sitting down and talking to the camera from a different room.
She says: “I joined a women's basketball club. I enjoyed playing, but I just didn't enjoy anything else to do with it.”
The video cuts to the same participant on the basketball court running, catching the ball and then shooting the ball.
She continues: “I wasn't out. I didn't feel like I could come out. It was almost like, go, play, and then go, go away. That's what stopped me playing.”
The video cuts to a shot of the basketball hoop and shows the ball go through the net.
A coach says: “Good job, Ashka”
The video cuts back to the participant sitting in a room talking to the camera.
She says: “I just looked online and just had to find this teeny little kind of thing for it.”
The video cuts to the same participant talking to another participant on the court.
She continues to camera: “I don't even know where. Yeah, it just felt good, straight away, to be honest."
The video cuts back to the coach standing on the side of the court talking to the camera.
She says: “Like the group WhatsApp that we have, we have people sharing their stories of adopting and it's just nice to see people living real lives and, like, whole lives.”
The video cuts to a close up of a poster showing the ‘Periodic table of Sheffield Dialect’ on the wall.
The participant continues: “I'm godparent to, you know, the child of a person I met in basketball.”
The video cuts back to the participant talking to the camera.
She says: “I actually met Liz, my wife...”
The video cuts to a close-up of a photograph of two women holding a trophy together, then back to the participant talking to the camera.
She continues: “So we've been to, like, different Euro games. We went to one in Barcelona. The whole, like, vibe of it was brilliant.”
The video cuts to a trophy for Manchester Lynx players’ player of the year 2024, then back to the chair, Georgia, talking to the camera.
Georgia says: “If you want to make a group like this successful, you need to make a lot of sacrifices. You need to be prepared to put a lot of energy out.”
The video cuts to a scene of participants playing basketball. The camera is over the shoulder of the Georgia, who is at the side of the court watching. The camera angle changes to look side-on at Georgia, then opens slightly so that the participants playing basketball are in view.
The video cuts to the participant sitting down talking to the camera.
She says: "Things are always easier when you have a supportive team. We have a treasurer and they do a little financial report. And Georgia the chair does, you know, sort of a chair's report. And then, you know, the secretary does their report. So, you know, it's quite sort of formalised in that respect.”
The video cuts back to the chair talking to the camera.
Georgia says: “All these roles tend to intertwine quite a bit.”
The video cuts back to the participant talking to the camera
She says: “You know, there's other clubs in the league that I don't think have people like that because they're in disarray and they don't seem to know when they're playing, what they're playing, where the kits are, where they're... you know, and I feel like we are very well organised.”
The video cuts to a group of participants playing basketball on the court, passing the ball around.
The coach says: “Make the space, get out, Fay, get out. Good job.”
The video cuts to another participant who is talking to the camera.
She says: “Everyone's just really friendly. I was a bit nervous because I've never played before but there was no judgement. Everyone's just really nice.”
The video cuts back to the group of participants playing basketball. One player throws the ball over to her left.
The video cuts to this third participant talking to the camera.
She says: “The coaches are really good so I picked up a lot... I hadn't played before this.”
The video cuts back to the group of participants playing basketball. One player shoots.
The video cuts to this fourth participant talking to the camera.
She says: “Everyone's happy if they have played before to, like, help and teach and coach and then the more newbies that come, the more comfortable I think everyone feels.”
The video cuts to a fifth participant talking to the camera.
She says: “You feel like you're part of it straight away. It’s really great to play with them.”
The video cuts back to the group of participants playing basketball. The camera follows the chair as she plays with the group.
The video cuts to Georgia talking to the camera.
She says: “By helping run these sessions, I'm offering people the opportunity to play the sport they love, introduce the sport to people that have never played it before, and also create a new community of friendships.”
The video cuts to participants chatting on the court.
The video closes with the Sport England logo alongside The Behavioural Architects logo on a black background.
