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Editor's choice It is our great pleasure to announce that the Sporting Heritage Awards are to be hosted by seven-time Paralympic champion, Hannah Cockroft OBE and TV sports broadcaster, Tanya Arnold when they take place at Leeds Museum in April.
Find out more As I sit in my studio creating the final Sporting Heritage resource for the hidden histories project, I begin to reflect on the past year.
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.
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Latest news This year, UEFA Women's EURO 2022 is the inspiration behind a free art workshop being hosted at Weston Park Museum during the May half term holidays. Book your place now!
Find out more As part of February’s Art of Sporting Heritage Month, Russell Todd from Expo’r Wal Goch, the Welsh football social enterprise, was joined by guests to discuss the significance of football and other sports in the fiction of Rhondda writer Ron Berry (1920-1997).
Find out more Included this month: We host the Inaugral Sporting Heritage Awards! Plus we bring you Education Programme updates, the Women's Euros Scoping Survey, Ashes Cricket Lunch with Sir Ian Botham, and all the latest sector updates, webinars and funding news.
Find out more Sporting Heritage is delighted to once again team up with The Events Room in this exclusive Ashes Cricket Lunch with Sir Ian Botham OBE. Book your tickets now!
Find out more Featured this month: Ashes lunch with Sir Ian Botham OBE, Sporting Heritage Awards and support opportunities, EUFA Women's Euros scoping survey, new A-Z education resource, and the very latest sector news, training events and funding advice.
Find out more We're delighted to be joined by our Ambassador, Dana Abdulkarim for this episode of In Conversation. Dana is acknowledged as being the first ever Hijabi Muslim to represent England at any sport, with 67 caps for Rounders England.
Find out more Featured this month: The Art of Sporting Heritage month is here! We also have the latest on the SH Awards, UEFA Women's Euros 2022 and Host City Sheffield, NSHD2022 updates, sector news, webinars and funding opportunities.
Find out more It is our great pleasure to announce that the Sporting Heritage Awards are to be hosted by seven-time Paralympic champion, Hannah Cockroft OBE and TV sports broadcaster, Tanya Arnold when they take place at Leeds Museum in April.
Find out more This February the nation’s love of sport, art and heritage will be celebrated with the launch of the Art of Sporting Heritage campaign.
Find out more Photographer Bartosz Nowicki reflects on life among the fans of Cardiff City FC, and his 'Bluebirds' exhibition.
Find out more As we celebrate the Art of Sporting Heritage during February 2022, we have the great pleasure of hearing from artist, Liam Stokes-Massey aka Pencil Craftsman.
Find out more As part of the Art of Sporting Heritage Month, we are delighted to be joined by "The Olympic Picasso", Roald Bradstock.
Find out more Included this month: Get involved in February's Art of Sporting Heritage month activities, SH Awards 2022, A century of women in civil service sport, Women in RL Heritage project opportunities, and all the latest sector updates, webinars and funding news.
Find out more Gayle Rogers shares her thoughts with us ahead of her forthcoming exhibition at the Workers Gallery, What Time's Kickoff?
Find out more In this episode, Hedley Featherstone from the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) provides a flavour of the role played by women in civil service sports participation, excellence, administration and governance since its founding in November 1921
Find out more In this episode as part of the Ignored Heritage project, project lead Kristopher Mckie is joined by: Humayun Islam, CEO of the BEAP Community Partnership and founder of Bangla Bantams, and Dr Dan Kilvington, Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at Leeds Beckett University.
Find out more In this months newsletter: Sporting Heritage Awards 2022, the Art of Sporting Heritage month, In Conversation with Hannah Cockroft, a new podcast explores stereotypes around British South Asians in Football, along with the latest sector news, events and funding opportunities.
Find out more British wheelchair racer; seven-time Paralympic gold-medallist, and world record holder, Hannah Cockroft MBE is our special guest in this episode of 'In Conversation'
Find out more The City and District of Derry and Strabane District Council is steeped in sporting history. Our Sporting Heritage Community Grant allowed us to create a 'Sports of Our Time' exhibition, which opened on 30 September to celebrate our sporting heroes in all sports throughout our council area.
Find out more Featured in this month's newsletter: a final call for the Wales scoping survey, A-Z of sporting objects for schools, Boccia podcast special, NSHD2021 blogs, and Conference recordings, along with all the latest sector news, training events and funding opportunities.
Find out more One consolation of the Covid-19 lockdowns was being able to “attend” last year’s Sporting Heritage online conference, which inspired me to put a bid in immediately for a Community Grant to make a film capturing stories from the diverse women’s football group I work with.
Find out more Along with an introduction to the sport from Boccia Uk, we talk to players Scott McCowan, Stephen McGuire and Claire Taggart as they prepare for the World Boccia 2021 European Championship in Seville, the first international Boccia competition since the Tokyo Paralympic Games
Find out more June 2016 - I ventured to the first major footballing championship (men’s) that Wales had qualified for in my lifetime: Euro 2016.
Find out more For National Sporting Heritage Day 2021 the Arlington Baths Club was proud to present the Battle of the Bathsmasters, a dramatisation of a 1879 media spat and public swimming contest to prove women’s swimming skills!
Find out more In this film created for the 2021 Sporting Heritage Conference, our founding director Dr Justine Reilly guides you through a review of our activities over the past year, developments in the organisation and details some of what we have planned in the future.
Find out more Durham Amateur Football Trust celebrated National Sporting Heritage Day with an exhibition entitled “A Day out at Wembley” on Saturday 2 October at King James 1 Academy, Bishop Auckland.
Find out more For this year's National Sporting Heritage Day we publicised Reading Museum’s forthcoming exhibition on 150 years of Reading FC, and celebrated our heritage through a range of activities.
Find out more Throughout the week of National Sporting Heritage Day, we shared with local people and schools the story of Claude Hailey, and Tennis Wales offered coaching sessions to local people, all of which helps us re-engage with the community after the pandemic.
Find out more Sharing stories, reminiscing about big wins & big losses, recalling great players, rekindling friendships was the order of the day.
Find out more In this episode, recorded as part of the Ignored Heritage pilot project, we reflect on the film 'Millwall Black and White', with project lead, Kristopher Mckie, producer, Ole Jensen, and one of the stars of and contributors to the film, Ron Bell.
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