Sporting Heritage CIC

Image Credit: Ballymoney Museum

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Ballymoney Museum | Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council Ballycastle Museum is housed in the listed 18th century courthouse and market building in the town centre.

By removing material from storage and increasing visibility, the project reduced heritage at risk and strengthened Ballymoney Museum’s role as a trusted repository for local sporting history.

Find out more: tinyurl.com/5242d3br

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The project:
• Moved helmets and artefacts into permanent display
• Created a new exhibition exploring the NW200’s significance
• Introduced interactive, child-friendly elements
• Reached 7,500+ participants during the Joey 25 event

Much of Ballymoney Museum’s motorcycle road racing collection, including the Bert McCook donation linked to the North West 200 (NW200) and the Dunlop family, had remained in storage, limiting public access. With Sporting Heritage grant support, items were brought back into the community space.

Free Welsh Collection Significance Webinar Series Ever wondered how to embark on assessing your collection’s significance? Join us for bitesize sessions in January - March 2026 to find out more.

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Sessions can be joined individually, and recordings will be available via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel.

Learn what a virtual collection visit involves, the technology and set-ups required, and how to plan around capacity, spaces and collection needs. Plus, how to make the visit work for you and your peer reviewer.

📌 FREE Webinar | Welsh Collection Significance
Session 4: Creating a virtual visit to your sporting collection
📅 Wed 11 March | 10.30–11.30 (Online)

Free Welsh Collection Significance Webinar Series Ever wondered how to embark on assessing your collection’s significance? Join us for bitesize sessions in January - March 2026 to find out more.

Secure your free place 👉 tinyurl.com/58s9j54z
Sessions can be joined individually, and recordings will be available via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel.

Learn what a virtual collection visit involves, the technology and set-ups required, and how to plan around capacity, spaces and collection needs. Plus, how to make the visit work for you and your peer reviewer.

📌 FREE Webinar | Welsh Collection Significance
Session 4: Creating a virtual visit to your sporting collection
📅 Wed 11 March | 10.30–11.30 (Online)

The exhibition will tour regionally, embedding these stories into long-term interpretation.

Sporting Heritage supports organisations across the UK to protect, understand and share sporting collections, reducing heritage at risk.

The project:

• Trained seven young women in research and curation
• Recorded interviews with past and present athletes
• Documented women who challenged gender barriers
• Launched an exhibition for International Women’s Day

Women’s sporting achievements in Llanelli had been underrepresented within the historical record. With Sporting Heritage grant support, seven young women (16-24) were trained in filmmaking and curation to research and co-curate an exhibition celebrating local sportswomen.

(Re)fashioning women's leisure: image, material and place, 1850-present 25 June 2026 at De Montfort University, Leicester.

This student-led event brings together researchers, archivists and practitioners.

Call for Papers deadline: 16 March.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/yppuc68a

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Sport & Fashion Symposium: Call for Papers. With #SportAndFashion Month returning in June, activity is already building across the sector. Sport & Fashion Symposium: Call for Papers. With #SportAndFashion Month returning in June, activity is already building across the sector.

Supporting Scotland’s Sporting Heritage – Business Archives Surveying Officer Business Archives Surveying Officer

Dr Justine Reilly:

“Sporting heritage has often been hidden or ignored… This project will provide crucial support to understand and preserve these collections.”

Find out more: www.surveyingofficer.co.uk/SSSH

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The project will:
• Map and survey sporting collections across Scotland
• Identify records at risk
• Strengthen preservation and long-term protection
• Improve access for communities and researchers

Protecting Scotland’s sporting archives before they are lost.

Sporting Heritage is a key delivery partner in Supporting Scotland’s Sporting Heritage, led by The Ballast Trust and funded by @HeritageFundUK. @‌natlibscot.bsky.social

Free Welsh Collection Significance Webinar Series Ever wondered how to embark on assessing your collection’s significance? Join us for bitesize sessions in January - March 2026 to find out more.

Secure your free place 👉 tinyurl.com/58s9j54z
Sessions can be joined individually, and recordings will be available via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel.

Learn what a virtual collection visit involves, the technology and set-ups required, and how to plan around capacity, spaces and collection needs. Plus, how to make the visit work for you and your peer reviewer.

📌 FREE Webinar | Welsh Collection Significance
Session 4: Creating a virtual visit to your sporting collection
📅 Wed 11 March | 10.30–11.30 (Online)

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The form is simple: organisation name, short description, location and contact details. Images optional.

If we don’t know your collection exists, we can’t advocate for it. Add your collection: tinyurl.com/3sy2p8j9

Adding your collection helps to:

• Reduce the risk of it being overlooked
• Connect you to sector support
• Strengthen the national picture
• Increase visibility for your work

Our Collections Database brings together sporting-related collections held by museums, archives, clubs and community groups across the UK.

If your organisation holds sporting records, artefacts or photographs, you can add your collection.

Free Welsh Collection Significance Webinar Series Ever wondered how to embark on assessing your collection’s significance? Join us for bitesize sessions in January - March 2026 to find out more.

Secure your free place 👉 tinyurl.com/58s9j54z
Sessions can be joined individually, and recordings will be available via the Sporting Heritage YouTube channel.

Learn what a virtual collection visit involves, the technology and set-ups required, and how to plan around capacity, spaces and collection needs. Plus, how to make the visit work for you and your peer reviewer.

📌 FREE Webinar | Welsh Collection Significance
Session 4: Creating a virtual visit to your sporting collection
📅 Wed 11 March | 10.30–11.30 (Online)

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Working with partners, they created inter-school, inter-faith and community competitions, generating new display material and a more inclusive narrative of Welsh cricket, shaped and proudly shared by local communities.

✨ Highly Commended | Sporting Heritage Awards: Museum of Welsh Cricket. The Museum has delivered a series of projects celebrating the Global Family of Cricket, highlighting the heritage and legacy of global majority communities through collections, education and participation.