The video begins in an indoor bowls centre. The centre has a green carpeted floor, and scoreboards attached to a white wall can be seen. A man (later identified as Mo Hussain) enters the scene, wearing a blue tracksuit, he sits down on a chair and faces the camera. A backing track begins and plays throughout the video.
The scene changes to a gymnastics centre. A blue sprung floor, white and blue walls and safety mats can be seen. A woman (later identified as Measha Harris) wearing a grey blazer, white top and black trousers, is sat facing the camera.
The scene changes to show an indoor swimming centre, a large swimming pool can be seen in the background. A woman (later identified as Nicola Holmes) wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans is sat facing the camera in front of the swimming pool.
The scene changes to show an indoor gym. Weights, kettlebells and other gym equipment is visible in the background. A woman (later identified as Louise Walker) wearing a leopard print jacket, black top and black trousers is sat facing the camera.
The scene changes to show an outdoor stadium with rows of blue seats. A man (later identified as Douglas Blackwood) wearing a grey quarter zip jumper and black trousers is sat on one of the stadium seats facing the camera.
The scene changes to show an outdoor athletics track, with the track and part of the centre field visible. A woman (later identified as Laura Harris) wearing a blue gilet over a white t-shirt and black shorts is sat on a chair on the athletics track.
The scene changes to show another indoor gym where weights, benches and a squat rack are visible in the background. A woman (later identified as Halima Khan) wearing a red jumper is sat facing the camera.
The scene changes one final time to show a football pitch, with a portable goal and a building visible in the background. A man (later identified as Wayne Niles) wearing a navy suit, white shirt and navy tie is sat on a chair on the football pitch.
The scene clears to reveal a trio of logos displayed on a white screen, with a Buddle themed border. The Buddle logo is shown at the top of the screen, followed by ‘supported by Sport England’ and The National Lottery logo beneath. The name of the video, Active bystanders, appears beneath in dark blue text.
The frame transitions with a horizontal Buddle branded colour swipe, reverting to the scene showing Mo Hussain. Subtitles appear at the bottom of the screen and continue throughout the video. Mo speaks directly to the camera and says: “My name is Mo Hussain.” The camera angle changes to show a side profile of Mo, who continues “I’m a dad. I’m a coach.”. A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text Mo Hussain, Equality Diversity and Inclusion Manager, Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The camera angle changes to show Mo facing the camera and he continues: “I’m a representative of my faith.”
The shot changes to the scene showing Measha Harris who is speaking directly to the camera and says: “My name is Measha Harris.” A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text Measha Harris, Sport Welfare Officer, Yorkshire Sport Foundation. Measha continues: “I am a daughter. I’m a sister.”
The shot changes to the scene showing Louise Walker. Speaking directly to camera Louise says ”My name is Louise Walker.” A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text Louise Walker, Development officer, Active Leeds. Louise continues: ”I’m a mother. I’m an aunty.”.
The scene moves on to Douglas Blackwood who can be heard saying: ”My name is Douglas Blackwood.” The camera angle changes with Douglas now facing the camera, he continues: “I’m a brother. I’m a partner.” As he speaks to the camera, a lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text Douglas Blackwood, Sport Welfare Officer, Yorkshire Sport Foundation.
The shot changes to show Halima Khan, who can be heard saying: ”My name is Halima Khan.” A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text Halima Khan, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant. The camera angle changes to show Halima facing the camera, she continues: ”I’m a friend. I’m a colleague.”
The scene changes to a close up of Wayne Niles who can be heard saying: ”Wayne Niles.” A lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text Wayne Niles, Computer Science and Business Teacher, Leeds City Academy. Wayne continues: ”I’m a referee. I’m an uncle and most of all, I’m a black man.”
The shot returns to show Mo speaking to the camera who says: ”I remember playing sports as a junior and thinking, you know, will I ever get a go? Will I ever get picked?” The camera angle changes to show a close-up, side profile of Mo, as he continues: ”People of colour or people who look like me are just not present.”. The shot returns to show Mo facing the camera and he says: ”As a child, you know, not going to sports games because of, the culture of certain sports, it has had an impact.” Mo is visibly upset, he looks directly at the camera.
The scene moves on to Laura Harris on screen. Laura says: ”Recently, a club changed how they were structuring club sessions and it meant a lot of women were excluded, including myself, and raising that at the club, it wasn’t taken very seriously, and we were dismissed.” As she speaks, a lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text Laura Harris, Sport Welfare Manager, North Yorkshire Sport.
The shot returns to Wayne facing the camera who continues: ”The first person they see is a black man and in a referee’s uniform.” The shot changes to a side view of Wayne as he continues: ”So there’s a lot of prejudgements and preconceptions in whether I’m going to be good enough or whether I’m going to make the right decisions.” The scene changes back to show Wayne looking at the camera, he continues: ”Because I already see that judgement, I have to run twice as fast or try twice as hard and try and ensure that I don’t get many decisions incorrect because of the impact that it would have.”
Measha appears on screen, talking directly to the camera saying: “One of my first experiences of experiencing any sort of discrimination was when I was quite young in an athletics club. We’d just done a relay and unfortunately, we lost, which was quite gutting, but I was actually the one that was blamed and a couple of the teammates went even further to say to me, ‘Oh you’re black you’re supposed to be able to run fast’.”
The scene returns to show Louise facing the camera saying: ”I definitely feel that as a women of colour, it has an impact, but a lot of the times it’s an undertone. So it isn’t blatant a lot of the time. So sometimes I feel that I can’t quite put my finger on it but when I leave the situation and reflect and I know that there’s been even an undertone of racism or otherism or some form of bias involved.”
The shot returns to Wayne talking directly to the camera saying “Discrimination has played a massive part in my life, I’d say. From a young boy to a grown adult. They see the colour of my skin. They don’t see my qualifications, they don’t see my knowledge, they don’t see my skills, my experience, or the history that I bring.”
The scene reverts to Louise. As she is talking the scene changes to a front facing view, Louise says: “If someone’s being a passive bystander and not intervening when they think that something’s been said that’s inappropriate or that someone else is feeling hurt or upset by what’s being said, it makes me feel unsupported. It makes me feel that they might think the same as what’s being said or the behaviours.”
The scene changes to a close up shot of Halima, she’s speaking directly to the camera and says: “It kind of makes you feel quite deflated.”
The scene returns to show Measha talking directly to the camera: ”Yeah, so I think betrayal, feeling isolated and just quite sad really, in environments where I should have been really having a good time or feeling supported or that sense of teamwork and, sort of togetherness.”
The frame transitions with a horizontal Buddle brand colour swipe, to reveal a white screen with orange text which reads What can an active bystander do?
The frame transitions again with a horizontal Buddle brand colour swipe to show Nicola Holmes talking directly to the camera, as Nicola is speaking a lower third banner appears at the bottom left of the screen showing the Buddle logo and the text Nicola Holmes, Senior Sport Welfare Officer, Yorkshire Sport Foundation. Nicola says: ”If you are in a situation, you witness a situation happening and you choose to do something about it you then become an active bystander.”
The scene returns to Measha talking to the camera, as she is speaking the shot zooms in, she says: “I think if people witnessed things, especially maybe friends or colleagues or teammates, it’s around sometimes maybe just checking in on someone afterwards, reporting something that you’ve seen.” The scene then returns to a wide angle of Measha as she continues: “So being an active bystander can make a huge difference.”
The frame returns to shows Mo, who is speaking directly to the camera. ”If people do speak out when they see injustice it gives you that hope and belief that actually having any ally it kind of almost vindicates your, kind of journey, I guess.”
The scene returns to show Halima speaking directly to the camera, the shot moves to her side profile as she is speaking, she says: “It gives you that confidence. It gives that sense that actually what just happened here, it isn’t something that should be happening to me.”
The scene reverts to Louise, speaking directly to the camera, she says: “It takes one person to speak up, and then others will then think before they speak in other environments. It makes people who are a minority, or feel less than, feel like they’re no longer a minority because they’re being supported.”
The frame changes to show a side view of Halima talking to the camera, as she speaks the camera angle changes so she is talking directly to the camera. Halima says: “It’s really important to be an active bystander because it gives you an opportunity and the confidence to be able to articulate and say, I’m not willing to be part of a club or be part of a society or be part of an organisation when nobody’s speaking up, because that could be my aunty, my mum, my brother, my niece, my nephew and I would, in them situations, want somebody to be able to speak up and stick up for them if they were experiencing discrimination.”
The scene changes back to show Nicola who is facing the camera and says: “There are a number of different ways that you can safely intervene in situations.” The frame transitions with a horizontal Buddle brand colour swipe, to reveal a white screen with orange text with the words; Direct, Distract, Delegate, Document, Delayed appearing on screen. As the words appear Nicola continues: “There’s direct. There’s distract. You could delegate, document things that are happening, and then there’s also the delayed approach.”
The frame transitions with a horizontal Buddle brand colour swipe, to show Douglas speaking directly to the camera: “An active bystander might directly confront the perpetrator”. The shot becomes a close-up as Douglas continues speaking: “Engage the people around them to stand up and say, ‘that’s not okay’.” The shot returns to a wide view as Douglas continues: “Make sure that the victim of that abuse is okay and offer them the support following that.”
The scene returns to Laura. As Laura is speaking the camera angle changes from a side view to a front facing view: “A lot of people think that is always directly doing something at the time, but actually it can mean a whole host of different things and to me it’s just taking some sort of action against behaviour that is not acceptable.”
The frame changes to show a side view of Douglas, who says: “At its simplest level, nobody deserves any form of abuse.”
The scene moves back to Wayne speaking directly to camera. As Wayne speaks the camera angle changes to a side profile. Wayne says: “The underlining factor is wrong is wrong. And you can’t be wrong and strong, and we need to be, you know, if it doesn’t feel right, and it doesn’t look right, it’s not right.”
The frame transitions with a horizontal Buddle brand colour swipe, to reveal a white screen with orange text reading What can clubs and community organisations do? The frame transitions again with a horizontal Buddle brand colour swipe again to show Measha, talking directly to the camera, she says: “Clubs and community activity providers can ensure that they’ve got robust policies in place that all of the club community are aware of, not just treating this as sort of a tick box exercise. It’s part of the club culture that we treat each other with respect.”
The scene returns to Mo talking to the camera, as he is speaking the camera angle changes to a side profile of Mo, he says: “Having more representative members who reflect the local communities. Looking at the active bystander training, that can help.”
The shot moves back to Halima. As Halima is speaking the camera angle changes from a side profile to a front facing shot, she says: “I think we have to go away from, or move away from, the tokenistic gestures. There are courses out there, they could put that on for their volunteers, for their staff.”
The scene changes to show Laura. As Laura is speaking the camera angle changes from a front facing shot to her side profile, she says: “Being an active bystander can help the whole of society, be a kinder, nicer place.”
The scene changes to show Wayne, who is speaking directly to camera, he says: “So the next time you witness discrimination…”
The scene changes to show Measha speaking directly to the camera, she says: “What will you do?”
The scene changes to show Nicola speaking directly to the camera, she says: “What will you do?”
The scene changes to show Halima speaking directly to the camera, she says: “What will you do?”
The scene changes to show Wayne speaking directly to the camera, he says: “What will you do?”
The scene changes to show Mo speaking directly to the camera, he says: “What will you do?”
The frame transitions with a horizontal Buddle brand colour swipe, to reveal a white screen with a Buddle themed border. The Buddle logo appears centrally at the top, underneath it the Sport England, National Lottery, and Yorkshire and Humber Anti-Racism in Sport Group logos appear. Beneath this reads www.buddle.co and www.sportengland.org. The music stops and the video ends.