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Hi all, The 30th September 2014 will see the first ever National Sporting Heritage Day! Planning is still in the early stages, but it's a brilliant opportunity to celebrate the sporting past. You can like our Facebook page to keep up-to-date with information about the event, and share your ideas: https://www.facebook.com/nationalsportingheritageday or follow us on Twitter @sportinghistory. The event aims to create a focal point each year for preserving and sharing objects and stories about the sporting past. Any involvement in the event will make a big contribution to achieving this aim! Anyone can take part - sports clubs, local community groups, museums, archives, schools, residents homes, universities.... basically anyone with an interest in helping to preserve and share the objects and stories that tell the story of sport. Sport has a unique place in the heritage of the country. Not only does it have a place in its own right, but it also helps to illustrate the story of so many other historical subjects: women's rights, the industrial revolution, social mobility, individual determination, scientific exploration and invention, community history........ the sporting past can also help to unlock learning and culture for children and adults otherwise turned off from these subjects. By popular demand, the first National Sporting Heritage Day has a theme of World War 1 to celebrate the links between sport and the Great War. But if you feel you'd like to celebrate another area of the sporting past though, please go ahead. I look forward to hearing about your plans! Many thanks Justine Reilly Sporting Heritage CIC and Sporting Heritage Learning Group.