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Editor's choice This June will see the inaugural Expo #EWG21. Inevitably, it must take place online but across four days, 1- 4 June, the Expo will offer a stage to explore the game’s social, cultural and political impact and heritage through talks and panel discussions.
Find out more Dame Sarah Storey DBE joins the podcast to discuss her own sporting heritage and considers the importance of celebrating the achievements and all too often hidden histories of disability and women’s sport’s.
Find out more To help to answer this question the Understanding Audiences research was commissioned. With the aim of understanding if and how audience data is collected, analysed and used, and what this tells us, if anything, about who sporting audiences are.
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Latest news Squadron Leader, Damian Clayton MBE joins our podcaster-in-residence, Russell Todd to explain how he successfully established rugby league as an officially recognised sport within the Royal Air Force.
Find out more A free guide on how to use the power of sport to unlock memories and play a part in reminiscence activities has been launched by Sporting Heritage CIC.
Find out more Joining us for our very first 'In Conversation With...' is 5x Olympian and World Champion Rower, Frances Houghton, MBE.
Find out more Featured in this months newsletter: National Sporting Heritage Day Resource Pack launch, the Hidden Histories Illustrated digital jigsaw, educational strategy update, Expo’r Wal Goch along with the latest sector news, events and funding opportunities.
Find out more This June will see the inaugural Expo #EWG21. Inevitably, it must take place online but across four days, 1- 4 June, the Expo will offer a stage to explore the game’s social, cultural and political impact and heritage through talks and panel discussions.
Find out more The annual celebration began in 2014 with a handful of activities and has grown each year to cover a variety ...
Find out more Welcome to the April edition of our newsletter, which includes updates on the Sporting Heritage Conference 2021, SH project activity, #NSHD2021, news from our partners and the wider sector, as well as the latest events, training and funding opportunities.
Find out more Building on the success of last year’s digital event, this year’s conference will take place online on Wednesday 20th and ...
Find out more ‘Sport’ as Nelson Mandela once so famously observed, ‘has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire.... It speaks to youth in a language they understand. And its this wide appeal to young people which lies at the very heart of Sporting Heritage’s new Education Strategy.
Find out more To help to answer this question the Understanding Audiences research was commissioned. With the aim of understanding if and how audience data is collected, analysed and used, and what this tells us, if anything, about who sporting audiences are.
Find out more Why don’t running clubs share and publicise their history? Clubs may feel that no-one outside the club would be interested. Committees are focused on the here and now of running their club and there is not a lot of time to think about the past.
Find out more In this months newsletter: National Sporting Heritage Day Campaign update, Hidden Histories Illustrated, Keep Fit Association Focus, National Education Strategy and the very latest sector news, events and funding opportunities. Take a look!
Find out more Included in the February Sporting Heritage newsletter: our National Education Strategy, Build a 3D Sporting Museum, Scoping Scottish Sporting Heritage, England Netball Heritage feature, #NSHD2021 Campaign and all the latest sector support and funding news.
Find out more Included in the January newsletter: understanding audiences survey, sporting heritage in Scotland, ignored heritage programme, webinars and networking Meetings, funding support and news from across the sector.
Find out more Excited by the opportunity to creatively incorporate your sporting heritage into our newly developing national education offer for schools and communities? Like to influence and shape how this might be achieved? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Find out more Entries for the Community Sport and Recreation Awards 2021 are now open, with cash prizes and national recognition up for ...
Find out more As a former secondary headteacher, I’ve always been excited by Sporting Heritage’s education vision and ambition; my new role now offers a fantastic opportunity to work with sector stakeholders to develop a strategic plan for the practical delivery of innovative learning in both formal and informal settings
Find out more Welcome to the December edition of our newsletter, which includes: Director’s Blog Christmas Calendar ‘Match It’ Game 2020 Conference Evaluation Julia Lee – A ...
Find out more In this podcast, Russell Todd chats with Julia Lee, who is not only a member of the 'Disability and Women's Sports' project scoping team, but since the late 1980s has been a pioneer for women's involvement in rugby league.
Find out more I'm going to start with a new project we've just been successful in acquiring funding for, that's very close to my heart - The Neurodiverse Museum (generously funded by Art Fund).
Find out more In 2016 we set out to commemorate the first black player at each of the 92 Football League clubs. In many cases the names of these pioneers were being lost to history.
Find out more In a previous post I wrote upon the 200th anniversary of the founding of our Village Cricket club; however cricket ...
Find out more Included in the November newsletter: 2020 Conference debrief, Neurodiverse museum pilot, Hidden Histories illustrated, join the Sporting Heritage Team, Nations updates, Football Heritage and National Collections of Sports networks, and the latest events, funding opportunities and sector news.
Find out more As part of our current development activity, we’re looking for some new team members! Sporting Heritage is the Subject Specialist Network ...
Find out more Dame Sarah Storey DBE joins the podcast to discuss her own sporting heritage and considers the importance of celebrating the achievements and all too often hidden histories of disability and women’s sport’s.
Find out more Double celebrations for Sporting Heritage this week as first we secured funding as part of the government’s #HereforCulture campaign, and ...
Find out more While serving as a constable in Glamorgan, Thomas played a role in two Grand Slam winning Welsh rugby sides and became a champion boxer. Along with 9 other police officers of south Wales, Thomas is recognised as a member of Wales’ first golden generation of rugby [1900-1911].
Find out more A different sport has been far more enthusiastic to commemorate its heroes. A sport which historian Dai Smith argues has as much of an umbilical connection with Welsh society and, especially its working classes, as rugby. That sport is boxing.
Find out more Following the reaction to my contribution at the Sporting Heritage Conference in Cardiff (October 2019), both from participants and people who viewed this externally via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel, it became apparent that an expansion of the theme – the support a community gave to the establishment of a cycle race through its sense of heritage and belonging – could be worthwhile.
Find out more We discuss the role and value of sporting heritage to the rowing community and wider sporting family. Focusing on the relationship between Frances Houghton MBE OLY and the River and Rowing Museum
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