Who We AreWe're a team of passionate volunteers who serve with purpose and clarity.
Kaur Sports aims to provide and encourage equal opportunity for brown women, to participate in sport.
Kaur Sports is run by volunteers. 100% of profits go back into the club to provide for our community (i.e., more social sport events, informative sessions, and other services).
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Social Activities
Connect with other women in walking groups, running groups, and walking groups.
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Competitive Teams
Join a sport team to train and compete at the next Sikh Games.
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Skill Learning
Keep an eye out for special learning events such as boxing sessions, mental health / nutrition seminars, and more!
Founder Story
“In 2023, when enquiring to participate in a newly introduced Powerlifting event at a national level Multicultural sporting competition, I was disappointed to hear that a women’s competition wasn’t being offered. Their response was, ‘there isn’t enough interest from women’. Respectfully, I disagreed.
Although the administration were more than happy to create a women’s competition after I collected 4+ expressions of interest, I was disappointed that (a) the launch of the competition did not naturally include a women’s competition and (b) it landed on me to acquire EOIs.
Multicultural women in Sydney do have the opportunity to express interest in sport. BUT there isn’t enough active encouragement. Multicultural women face many socio-cultural and economic barriers to sport and physical activities. Sporting opportunities cannot remain passive. We have to actively welcome disadvantaged groups to participate. For example, if women aren’t shown on the advertisement brochures of sporting competitions, it will discourage them from speaking up and trying to enter.
We need to actively encourage women to take up space! We all should have the equal right to participate and compete in any sport of your choosing.
I started Kaur Sports so that a woman can easily access resources and guidance to learn and participate in a sport of their choosing. We aim to provide a wide variety of activities to cater for different skill abilities and interests. I want to alleviate as many barriers as I can for women of colour. We belong in sport.”
~ Saaz Kaur Sahdra
Providing equal sporting opportunities for brown women
Creating a safe space, free of judgement
Promoting a healthy and active lifestyle
Our core values and leadership principles
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Accomplish more with less. Kaur Sports started with no funding, donations or sponsors. We were able to build a membership base of 85 people within 3 months, with very little resources.
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Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. At Kaur Sports, we think big. The board loves creating and communicating a bold direction that inspires results.
We offer a wide variety of sports and if we don’t offer a sport that a customer is interested in, we add it to our list! We want to serve the community and we give our women the platform to tell us what they want and play in a safe space, free of judgement.
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The Kaur Sports leaders all listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others with respect. We are vocal about our passions, but are also vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing.
We believe transparency and honesty are how we can constantly evolve and improve. We benchmark ourselves and our peers against the best.