Sporting Heritage is thrilled to be supported by our amazing Sporting Heritage Ambassadors! We can't tell you just how excited we are to have secured such a wonderful team from across the world of sport and culture, to help us share our vision and promote the importance and relevance of sporting heritage collections.
“I’m delighted to be the first Welsh Sporting Heritage ambassador. Every elite athlete was a beginner somewhere and was inspired by not just a champion in their sport, but by someone in their local community. It is important to me that we don’t forget how our local communities and volunteers support sport and I want us all to remember and protect this heritage."
Find out more Roald Bradstock is a two-time British Olympic athlete, and a record setting three-time Olympic artist. He is known in the media as “The Olympic Picasso” because of his ideas, programmes, artwork and antics that show the connection between sport and the arts, and promote the Olympic ideals and values.
Find out more "I'm excited to become sporting heritage's first Asian LGBTQ ambassador and support their annual National Sporting Heritage Day. Our sports heritage is vital to inspire the next generation of athletes particularly from ethnic minority backgrounds and the LGBTQ community."
Find out more “I am so delighted to join the Sporting Heritage Ambassador family and support this year’s National Sporting Heritage Day. Growing up, I didn’t see many black women playing football, or people from the LGBT+ community being celebrated in sport and that is something I have spent my sporting life changing and ensuring the next generation has a heritage they can learn from and be inspired by.”
Find out more Dana is a senior teacher in Sheffield across Physical Education and PSHE. In 2000 she became the first Muslim and Arab woman to compete for England Internationally with 67 caps in Rounders, she also was the first to then Coach an England side of her own.
Find out more Scott McCowan is a World Champion and Olympian in Boccia. Born and raised in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland, Scott first started playing in 2006 and is currently ranked no 6 in the world.
Find out more 7x Paralympic Champion, 12x World Champion & T34 World record holder. GBR Wheelchair racer & TV Presenter
Find out more “I am thrilled to be a Sporting Heritage Ambassador: valuing the past is really important to me – I love ...
Find out more “Sporting Heritage is important because of the inspiration we all get in remembering the past performances of our heroes. I’m ...
Find out more I’m very proud to become an Ambassador for Sporting Heritage. As well as being a squash player I am a huge sport’s fan and think it is very important to help protect and develop our sporting heritage.
Find out more Eorl Crabtree is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League ...
Find out more “Without the dedication and commitment of all that have gone before us, the opportunities as we know them today, would simply ...
Find out more “I am pleased to be a Sporting Heritage Ambassador! History of sport evolves champions of the future, I am looking ...
Find out more "I'm hugely proud to be an Ambassador for Sporting Heritage and I hope my artwork can help capture and remember the glorious sporting past, the events, the history and character of UK sport."
Find out more “History is a great thing. It gives us understanding of what has gone on before us and allows us to ...
Find out more Having delighted the Sporting Heritage Conference delegates in the past with his fabulous contributions and sporting heritage themed poem, 'Into Extra Time' written for National Sporting Heritage Day in 2018, we are delighted to welcome Ian to the team.
Find out more “I am thrilled to be a Sporting Heritage Ambassador and am excited at the opportunity to help promote the Heritage ...
Find out more "It’s an enormous privilege to be involved in promoting and sharing the many and varied ways that sporting heritage can enrich young people’s learning right across the curriculum"
Find out more “One of my earliest goals was to join the Army and win an Olympic gold medal; I am really pleased ...
Find out more “Sporting Heritage plays a vital role in preserving those life-changing, inspiring moments in sport for people to be able to ...
Find out more “There is something really special about the history that has shaped the sport of today. Not only does it allow ...
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