Any organisation which receives government funding has to meet certain standards of governance and behaviour. This includes an emphasis on diversity, in a praiseworthy attempt to ensure that everyone in society is able to participate and is not excluded by unintentional as well as intentional bias.

The EFDSS appears to have decided that the term "English" has negative connotations for some and must be therefore be eradicated in order to show it is open to all. This seems to me to present a problem for an organisation whose principal purpose is to promote and preserve English folk music. However that may not be the point, a name change which apparently removes this objection can be shown to have ticked this particular box. This may appease those who feel their sense of personal identity is excluded by the term "English", but what about those who feel their own sense of personal identity will have been chipped away a little bit more?