Sporting Heritage

17/08/2026

📣 WE’RE RECRUITING: FOUR OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF SPORTING HERITAGE

We’ve got big ambitions for Sporting Heritage – and we’re looking for four brilliant specialists to work with us as we build the foundations for our next stage of development.

These opportunities are part of our current resilience project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, giving us the opportunity to think seriously about our future: how we generate sustainable income, how we are structured, how we understand and demonstrate our impact, and how we make sure more people know about the work we do.

💛 And none of this would be possible without National Lottery players. Thank you!

We’re currently recruiting for:

💷 Options Appraisal & Income Generation Specialist
18 months | £15,000 inclusive of VAT
📅 Apply by 5pm, 16 September 2026

Help us develop a sustainable income-generation model spanning funding, sponsorship, consultancy and membership.

🔗 https://www.sportingheritage.org.uk/content/events/current-vacancies/were-looking-for-an-income-generation-specialist

🏛️ Organisational Change Specialist
6 months | £5,000 inclusive of VAT
📅 Apply by 5pm, 16 September 2026

Help us explore whether our current CIC structure remains the right model for our future and ensure we have the organisational foundations we need to grow.

🔗 https://www.sportingheritage.org.uk/content/events/current-vacancies/were-looking-for-an-organisational-change-specialist

📊 Evaluation Specialist
24 months | £5,000 inclusive of VAT
📅 Apply by 5pm, 16 September 2026

Help us understand our impact, capture what we’re learning and use that learning to inform the future development of Sporting Heritage.

🔗 https://www.sportingheritage.org.uk/content/events/current-vacancies/were-looking-for-an-evaluation-specialist

📣 PR & Campaigns Specialist
18 months | £10,000 inclusive of VAT
📅 Apply by 5pm, 30 September 2026

Help us become a go-to organisation for sporting heritage stories – building our profile, developing campaigns and turning increased awareness into new opportunities.

🔗https://www.sportingheritage.org.uk/content/events/current-vacancies/were-looking-for-a-pr-campaigns-specialist

All four roles are home-based with occasional travel.

We’re a small organisation working across the UK, but we have big ambitions for the future of sporting heritage. We want to protect sporting collections and stories, support the people and organisations who care for them, and demonstrate the difference sporting heritage can make to people and communities.

These four roles will help us make sure Sporting Heritage itself is strong, sustainable and ready for what comes next.

Could you be one of the people who helps us do it?

Take a look at the briefs – and please share this post far and wide. You might know exactly the person we’re looking for. 💛

17/08/2026

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06/08/2026

📢 New exhibition open!

We're delighted to announce our latest exhibition, A History of Dwarf Sport: Birmingham and Beyond, created in partnership with the Dwarf Sports Association UK (DSAuk).

Birmingham has a long association with disability sport, hosting major events and creating opportunities for athletes to compete and connect. This exhibition explores the history of the DSAuk, highlighting the stories of athletes, volunteers and venues that have helped shape disability sport in Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond.

📍 Library of Birmingham (Birmingham City Council)
📅 Open until 28 October 2026
🎟️ Free entry

For more information, and to access a video version of the exhibition with image audio description, click the link in the comments below.

We look forward to sharing more about the display over the coming weeks!

31/07/2026

the Third Commonwealth Paraplegic Games took place in Edinburgh in 1970, and at the heart of the organisation was Jean Stone MBE.

Her dedication to the Games earned her an MBE, and just four years later she was managing the Scottish team for the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Dunedin, New Zealand; raising funds, coordinating logistics and ensuring the team could compete.

Jean had been on the verge of retirement, but with a little encouragement she stayed on for an incredible 49 years, becoming one of the pioneering figures of the Paralympic Movement.

Thanks to the support of Archives Revealed, we've been cataloguing Jean's remarkable archive, uncovering photographs, documents and personal records that reveal the people, stories and determination behind the growth of disability sport.

We're delighted to share some of these discoveries in our latest blog series, 'Inside the Jean Stone Collection'. From incredible scrapbooks and prestigious awards to photographs of Jean herself.

🔗 Click the link in the comments to begin exploring now. Or if you don't have time now, make sure to save the post, to find it again later.
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The Jean Stone Collection is on long-term loan to the National Paralympic Heritage Trust from WheelPower.

With thanks to The National Archives and Heart of Bucks for their invaluable support.

30/06/2026

As The Hockey Museum calls a wrap on month in their latest post on the changing face of hockey wear, we'd like to thank everyone who has shared their sportswear heritage collections, archives, and stories throughout June! 👏👏👏

📷 Midland Counties Women’s Hockey Team vs Western Counties, Wolverhampton 1934. From the Christina Dony collection at The Hockey Museum

That’s a wrap on month! 👗🩳🏑

We hoped you enjoyed learning about hockey clothing, the objects in our collection and the objects we hope to add in the future!

Check out hockeymuseum.org for longer articles about some of the objects and topics discussed on our social media this month.

19/06/2026

😎 This 's treat features the Ski Club of Great Britain Collection. But it's not all winter woollies, a good pair of shades is essential as snow reflects a huge amount of sunlight. 👇️ c 1920 Sporting Heritage International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC)

19/06/2026

Celebrating a century of international sporting competition preserved in the archives of Commonwealth Games Scotland.

16/06/2026

Reposted from Somerset Cricket Museum

Once again the is supporting the Sporting Heritage month.

This year we have set up two slide sets showing the evolution in design of cricket boots, pads and gloves from those items held in the Museum

https://somersetcricketmuseum.co.uk/somerset-cricket-museum-cricket-equipment-exhibition/

14/06/2026

Reposted from .be for month

During the first years of the emergence of cycling as a competition sport, typical cycling clothing did not yet exist. But the riders copied just about everything from equestrian sports: (sub)disciplines, competition regulations, race distances, and therefore also the clothing.
Why? Because cycling was a completely new sport and its practitioners were looking for a way to quickly give this new discipline a social foothold. They could achieve this by copying another closely related sports discipline that stood higher on the social ladder.
In the image, we see a French velocipedist wearing riding attire: a cap, blouson, riding breeches, and black leather boots.
The next image shows the participants list of an early cycling race in the UK on April 3, 1869 from Chester to Rock Ferry with the name of the riders, the color of their caps and the names of their iron horse/velocipede (Source: The Cheshire Observer, April 10, 1869, 3.).

12/06/2026

Reposted from

'(Re)fashioning women's leisure: image, material and place, 1850-present'.

🎾Thursday 25 June 2026 - from 9:15 AM - 4:30 PM.

Registration NOW OPEN for this conference led by PhD student, Emmy Sale.

Further details at this link -
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refashioning-womens-leisure-image-material-and-place-1850-present-tickets-1981423447871?aff=oddtdtcreator