Thursday 27 March 2025

LAHS Public Heritage Fund Grant for the Leicestershire Football Archive

This grant will go towards a refresh of the archive's website and social media.

The Leicestershire Football Archive is a not for-profit website which aims to celebrate the history of football in Leicestershire. It was founded in 2023 by Dr Nigel Freestone to disseminate findings of over 3,000 hours of research on the development of football across the county.

The grant provided will help recruit De Montfort University students to make improvements to the website, create a marketing strategy, and assist with social media, with the aim of allowing the website to become self-funding and sustainable well in the future.

Nigel would like to engage with local history groups to produce histories of football in all major towns and villages across Leicestershire, making them freely accessible through the archive. If anyone would like to follow this up with him, please contact him via the Football archive website.