Since 2007, the Muslim Women’s Collective has been training local women as football coaches and lifeguards. Having gained additional funding in 2010, the Collective joined forces with Badminton England to recruit and train women badminton coaches. Up until then, there were no women badminton coaches in Tower Hamlets, but following our programme, we successfully trained 24 women to be accredited Level One badminton coaches. A number of these women are now employed with Greenwich Leisure Limited which operates Tower Hamlets’ leisure centres – here Rasna tells us what becoming a badminton coach has meant to her.