# THE GREAT SAVE

> Saving the nation's football memorabilia


## Posts

- [May 2024](https://thegreatsave.net/may-2024/): * The Great Save joins the FSA * Charlton Minute Book found * 150 year-old Notts Co seats re-purposed * Evidence of oldest Reading document * Developing relationships An important element of The Great Save is developing relationships and networks. We’re very pleased to announce that The Great Save has become an Associate Member of the Football Supporters Association (http://thefsa.org.uk) and we hope to encourage them to include a football heritage preservation award as part of their Annual Awards. We recently made another trip to Sheffield to deposit three more cases of books to the Sheffield Football Library and Archive. […]
- [Jan 2024](https://thegreatsave.net/january-2024/): Soccer Ashes trophy. Everton Club Corner. Digitisation. Plenty of activity and contact going on in our space over the past few weeks. Here are the highlights. The Soccer Ashes Trophy One of the highlights of last year was to meet up with Greg Werner – who is leading The Great Save Australia. He was in the UK for Australia’s internationals against England and New Zealand and, in particular, to see the recovered Soccer Ashes trophy presented. Here’s the amazing story… The ‘Soccer Ashes’, instigated 100 years ago during the 1923 series between Australia and New Zealand, was fought for again […]
- [Sep 2023](https://thegreatsave.net/september-2023/): It’s been a little while since our last blog but we’re glad to say there is plenty of saving going on out there! This time you can read about: Fantastic finds in Australia * Bristol Rovers * Croydon Common trophy * Sheffield Home of Football * Digitising the Alcock Annuals * Lively start for Swindon Town Museum * Sporting Heritage Football Network * Club Corner – Southport * The Great Save ‘international conference’! You need to start somewhere and, rather like the first ever cricket Test, this is an England-Australia match-up. Greg Werner, of The Great Save Australia, is coming […]
- [May 2023](https://thegreatsave.net/may-2023/): It’s been a while since our last blog. Maybe the disappointing fortunes of our respective teams this season have distracted us while we think about where The Great Save goes next! Sunderland Fans Museum In February Roger paid a match day visit to the Sunderland Fans Museum which is a short walk from the Stadium of Light. It being 50 years since Sunderland’s legendary FA Cup Final win there was ‘quite a bit’ about that on display. But there was plenty else besides and all credit to the organisers and curators for the displays and little library. To see what’s […]
- [Sep 2022](https://thegreatsave.net/september-2022/): Welcome to another TGS blog. There’s much to report and, as you’ll see, it’s been a busy summer for the Great Savers. 100 years of Vicarage Road, Watford Geoff has been working hard on the definitive centenary history of Vicarage Road, Watford’s ground since August 1922. His book, entitled ‘100 Years at Vicarage Road’, is published by the club at £20.22. It’s a way of curating in one volume a host of fascinating stories, amazing facts and glorious images of the place. It was launched at the end of August with a signing by Watford legends. There is an accompanying […]
- [Feb 2022](https://thegreatsave.net/february-2022/): Our two big stories this time are the upcoming Sheffield Football Library launch and a wonderfully comprehensive Club Corner piece from John Hutchinson of Leicester City. Lower down, we touch on an exhibition opening in Reading, the latest from Sporting Heritage and a plug for a new book from one of the Great Savers. ‘Sheffield Football Library’ update Already Sheffield Central Library and TGS have had a discussion with the FA about digitising their valuable run of FA Annuals (Alcocks, dating from 1870) as a template exercise. Physical donations continue to come in and the collection of When Saturday Comes […]
- [Nov / Dec 2021](https://thegreatsave.net/nov-dec-2021/): Two big news items We’re pleased to report two big pieces of news on the wider ‘saving’ agenda, each worth a separate item on the blog: the Sporting Heritage Toolkit and the Sheffield Library initiative. The Sporting Heritage Toolkit Geoff and Roger attended the webinar launch of the Sporting Heritage Toolkit on 9 November. This has been a while in development and well worth the wait, even if there are a couple more sections to come. It’s a massively comprehensive ‘How To’ resource / manual for anyone looking to set up a “heritage group” as we know many TGS readers […]
- [Sep 2021](https://thegreatsave.net/september-2021/): 19th century football pioneer diaries secured at The Crucible TGS regular John P. Wilson writes: The Crucible Theatre is better known for its association with snooker, but it was recently the location for the handover to public ownership of one of football’s most treasured manuscripts.  During the mid-1800s, Nathaniel Creswick kept a diary and on 24 October 1857, wrote: “I have established a foot ball club to which most of young Sheffield come and kick.” Jointly with William Prest, Creswick formed the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC, and established a model which has since been replicated many thousands of […]
- [Apr / May 2021](https://thegreatsave.net/apr-may-2021/): On the Edgeley Regular TGS reader Marcus Heap sends news from Stockport about a possible museum and history group: “Discussions with Stockport County are currently difficult to hold due to the crisis, but the new owners are definitely fully committed to celebrating the Club history. It was really encouraging to see the recent announcement about the relocated and refurbished Museum that is being built. I am hoping we can have a proper conversation with the Club about their appetite to help us create a create an archive and what support they can offer. There are some ambitious plans to redevelop […]
- [Feb / Mar 2021](https://thegreatsave.net/feb-mar-2021/): SH Football Network meeting 4 May The next, and second, meeting of Sporting Heritage’s Football Heritage Network is on Tuesday 4 May at 10am – 1130am by Zoom. To join the network please email fran@sportingheritage.org.uk with the subject heading “Football Heritage Network”. The agenda and Zoom joining details will be sent out approximately one week in advance. At the previous meeting The Great Save undertook a few tasks – two which we have completed! These are very basic guides aimed at football supporters rather than heritage professionals and seek to make the first steps in preserving football heritage easier. The first is […]
- [Dec / Jan 2021](https://thegreatsave.net/dec-jan-2021/): Sporting Heritage’s Football Heritage Network (FHN) Launch Geoff Wicken and Roger Titford from The Great Save attended by Zoom the inaugural meeting of Sporting Heritage’s Football Heritage Network on 18 January 2021. There were about 30 guests in attendance and unsurprisingly most came from museum and archivist backgrounds – the receivers of ‘stuff’ rather than the givers of ‘stuff’. So it was good that TGS was able to add the grass-roots perspective: what do fans who want to donate and preserve material do in the current climate? There are four areas where we’d love to see progress before the next […]
- [Oct / Nov 2020](https://thegreatsave.net/oct-nov-2020/): We might all be locked down, shielding and zooming to various degrees but we’re glad to say there’s still stuff going on in our general arena. Celebrating our football heritage workshop (Exeter) The Great Save was honoured to be part of the virtual line-up on 4 November alongside Football and War Network, the Football Supporters Association (FSA), the National Lottery Heritage Fund and our hosts the University of Exeter / ECFC Museum Trust. All five talks are being made available online here. We were first on the schedule. The Great Save’s message was that we need to go beyond creating […]
- [Aug / Sep 2020](https://thegreatsave.net/aug-sep-2020/): It’s a digital autumn: online workshops, networking and conferences For obvious Covid-19 reasons this summer has proved something of an impasse and led to a massive shift to meeting digitally, at least for the time being. Among the news here is re-arranging of Exeter’s planned spring workshops. As part of the ECFC Museum’s National Lottery Heritage funded outreach programme, the museum will be hosting an online workshop in collaboration with the Football Supporters Association, The Football & War Network, and The Great Save.  The aim of this workshop is to draw together people who are interested in community heritage in […]
- [Jun / Jul 2020](https://thegreatsave.net/june-july-2020/): Tales of the unexpectedly saved The June (No. 399) edition of When Saturday Comes featured the kind of rescue tale we love to hear. Hartlepool fan Ed Parkinson had an aged football film canister in his possession for over 40 years and when he finally got to see what was on it (a struggle in itself)  – it wasn’t he expected at all but a unique glimpse of his club in action that otherwise would have disappeared. By kind permission of Ed and the editor of WSC here’s a link to a pdf of the article. Webinars and Workshops When we kicked off The […]
- [Apr / May 2020](https://thegreatsave.net/april-may-2020/): Well, a lot has changed since our first blog post went out in early March. Not much of it for the better and sadly some of it making The Great Save more relevant than ever. Closing down It’s not just football that’s been closing down but the Heritage Lottery Fund closed its doors in late March to new applications for funding for at least six months. Other funders have followed suit which means that various projects we’ve been involved with at Reading and Maidstone have been put on ice. University of Exeter’s workshops, mentioned in the last blog, have not […]
- [Mar 2020](https://thegreatsave.net/hello-this-is-a-test/): The Saving Memorabilia survey The survey was very useful and we’ve shared the anonymised data with some pioneer organisations in the football heritage arenas. They were delighted with the feedback and felt that it strengthened the case for more support for our cause. There is a brief article in the current issue of WSC, on sale in early March 2020. You may well have been invited to this blog because you completed the online survey facilitated by When Saturday Comes magazine in December and supplied your email address in order to get feedback from the survey. This is that feedback […]

## Pages

- [Soccer Ashes trophy re-discovered](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/case-histories-great-saves/soccer-ashes-trophy-re-discovered/): One of the highlights of last year was to meet up with Greg Werner – who is leading The Great Save Australia. He was in the UK for Australia’s internationals against England and New Zealand and, in particular, to see the recovered Soccer Ashes trophy presented. Here’s the amazing story… The ‘Soccer Ashes’, instigated 100 years ago during the 1923 series between Australia and New Zealand, was fought for again – for the first time in 69 years – on 17 October 2023 at Brentford’s G-Tech stadium. Series between the two countries have been intermittent since the trophy was first […]
- [Surrey Herald Cup](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/case-histories-great-saves/surrey-herald-cup/): Croydon Common, a once significant Southern League club that folded in 1917, won the Surrey Herald Cup in 1905. The trophy had been competed for since 1889-90 but never again. Perhaps because the competition was discontinued? Or perhaps because the cup was ‘spirited away’? In Alan Futter’s wonderfully comprehensive history of Croydon Common, he tells of how the trophy finally came home. A club official appears to have taken it to Canada in 1912, and in the 1980s a descendant posted it back to Crystal Palace in the mistaken belief that the two clubs were connected. The Palace historian, the […]
- [Reading's original rules](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/case-histories-great-saves/reading-original-rules/): We’d call a ‘secondary’ find a reported historical artefact, something that went missing from its own time but re-appears almost at random, decades later. A supporter was musing through the FA News for July 1961, as you do, and was stopped in his tracks by a ‘photostat’ copy of the original 1871 rules of Reading FC. Bizarrely no text explanation was offered as to why this was re-printed here but even a copy was a valuable addition to the record, as the whereabouts of the original have long been unknown. Equally randomly from a scrapbook, Roger came across a secretary-manager’s […]
- [CLUB DIRECTORY](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/club-directory/): Many clubs have heritage groups or historians who curate items and memorabilia on behalf of supporters. If you’d like to get in touch with a specialist from any of these clubs, scroll down and click on the relevant link: Aberdeen: AFC Heritage Arsenal: Arsenal History Society – AISA Bradford City: Bantams Heritage Bristol Rovers: Bristol Rovers Memorabilia Cambridge United: 100 Years of Coconuts Charlton Athletic: CAFC Museum Derby County: email Andy Ellis at andy.ellis@derbycountycollection.co.uk or visit The DCFC Collection Dundee: email Ian Baird at icbaird@virginmedia.com or Jim Mitchell at jim.mitchell61@yahoo.co.uk or visit Dundee Football Club Historical Trust Dunfermline Athletic: Dunfermline […]
- [LATEST NEWS](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/latest-news/): Here’s our latest news up to April 2026 Previous news:
- [Watford - news photographs digitised](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/case-histories-great-saves/watfords-news-photographs-digitised/): Lost Watford images saved – and published Great Saver Geoff and fellow Watford history-lovers made an exciting discovery in the town museum archive…box upon box of 1950s and 1960s glass photographic negatives from the Watford Observer newspaper. With the log books missing, identifying which were football-related was quite laborious. But once this was done, and with a negative scanner acquired, they were converted into high-resolution images. A selection of about 90 have been colourised and – with the approval of the Watford Observer – recently published alongside the originals in a 144-page A5 book, Golden Shots and Visions of Blue. It’s gone down very well […]
- [Charlton Athletic - oral histories and a missing minute book](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/case-histories-great-saves/charlton-athletic-oral-histories-and-a-missing-minute-book/): Paul Baker from the Charlton Athletic Museum tells the story of a couple of Great Saves: Few clubs outside the “big six” have a physical museum but Charlton are one of them.  A registered charity, and an entirely fan-run and fan-funded initiative (although the club kindly give us large display and storage rooms at the Valley at no charge) we rely on donations from fans to grow and fund the collection. While it is time-consuming and costly to maintain a museum, one big advantage is that many fans now see it as the right place for valuable and historic items to […]
- [Notts County - recycled  seating](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/case-histories-great-saves/notts-countys-recycled-stand-seating/): Lee Cumberpatch rolls up his sleeves: ‘At Notts County we had probably the oldest stand in the League until its demolition in 1978. It was in use for many years at Trent Bridge cricket ground (mid-to-late 1800s) and then floated across the River Trent and erected at Meadow Lane ready for the ground opening in 1910.’ ‘It was deemed unsafe so came down in July 1978. Many of the original wooden bench seats then sat in dry storage for over 42 years in an old cinema a few miles from the ground until discovered, covered in thick soot and dust.’ […]
- [Everton](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/everton/): In this issue we hear from Brendan Connolly of the Everton FC Heritage Society. How was the Everton FC Heritage Society formed? The Society was another Everton-related brainchild of Dr David France OBE, in addition to the Former Players Foundation and the Hall of Fame. David invited a small number of people he knew who were interested in different aspects of the club’s heritage. What are the aims of the Society? How long have you been in existence and what were the early days like? Formed in 2008, early meetings were held in The Adelphi Hotel, but following David’s move […]
- [Southport](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/southport/): Daniel Hayes at Southport Central Southport Central (southportfootballclub.co.uk) Q: What’s the formal status of your heritage group and which groups are involved? A: I don’t know whether my situation is unusual or not, but there is no “group”. Southport Central is just me. What I’m able to achieve, and the timescales in which I can achieve it, is constrained by the fact that this entire project is being undertaken solo. There is no operating supporters’ trust or supporters’ group at the club, and no funding. Furthermore, the club itself has very little interest in what came before the current incumbents set […]
- [Swindon Town](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/swindon-town/): Heritage Society at Swindon Town Keith Coatsworth and Paul Hedges write: “We have setup the website, created a charity, have a board of trustees that include the CEO of STFC, Trust STFC board members and members of the official supporters’ club as well as the club’s historian – so hopefully quite well set up. In the long term we are looking to create a museum room but also adopt a similar approach to Exeter City with a stadium-wide approach. John Trollope MBE was officially announced as the first honorary president of the Museum (https://stfcmuseum.org/). His achievement of playing 870 league games […]
- [Leicester City](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/leicester-city/): This one is not so much a corner as a whole pitch! John Hutchinson is employed by Leicester City as official historian (if only more clubs would or could invest in this position) and thus the scope of his heritage activities has been able to range wider and deeper than anyone else so far that TGS has come across. For us the most notable features of his work are: Rather than edit the comprehensive review that John has provided we’ll give you this link to the full works. February 2022
- [Derby County](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/derby-county/): The Derby County Collection with Andy Ellis Andy Ellis writes about the Derby County Collection which is probably years ahead of most of us in terms of progress and scale as a heritage group. What’s the formal status of your heritage group, which groups are involved and how did you get started? The Derby County Collection was started a little over eight years ago as a charitable trust and so is registered with HMRC. The East Midlands Museums service were invaluable in talking through various options open to us, based on what our short, medium and long term goals were. […]
- [Bristol Rovers](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/bristol-rovers/): The Bristol Rovers History Group – Marc Radford, Secretary What’s the formal status of your group? We are the Bristol Rovers History Group. There are a select few of us such as official club historian Mike Jay, who is the driving force behind our being, as well as co-author Ian Haddrell. Hilary Lewis is the daughter of one of our greatest players, no-one less than one Harry Bamford. I am the barmy individual who tries to call order (aka the secretary) and Jamie is the one who puts everything on the website – go and check it out at your […]
- [Stevenage](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/stevenage/): Stevenage FC with Lloyd Briscoe What is the formal status of your activities regarding the heritage of football? I am the Stevenage FC club historian and I contribute a regular feature in the match-day programme concerning anecdotal historical “stuff”. I tend to focus on ancestral clubs such as Stevenage Town and Stevenage Athletic, where a general knowledge and understanding of these clubs appears to be rather thin on the ground. How did you get started? About 15 years ago, an elderly club official passed away. As I (thought I) knew him well, I was contacted by the local press to contribute to […]
- [Falkirk](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/falkirk/): The Falkirk Archive – Lucy MacIver (Project Archivist) What’s the formal status of your heritage group and which groups are involved? Falkirk Archive is the official Public Local Authority Archive and is part of Falkirk Community Trust. Thus we are part of the Heritage and Museum department of the Trust which also manages sport and heritage facilities and venues within the wider Falkirk Area; and we also work with Falkirk Council. The archive itself sits in the beautiful ‘stately home turned museum’ venue of Callendar House, in Falkirk. It houses the records of Falkirk Council, local churches, schools, organisations, families […]
- [Cambridge United](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/cambridge-united/): 100 Years of Coconuts by Pat Morgan – Cambridge United What’s the formal status of your heritage group and which groups are involved? ‘100 Years of Coconuts’ is the heritage arm of the Cambridge United Supporters’ Trust, Cambridge Fans United (CFU). It is formally constituted for financial purposes and operates separately from the trust, but is responsible to and reports to the trust board. The CFU trust board provides two nominees for the Coconuts management committee, which draws its other members from the CUFC supporter base. Coconuts benefits from the encouragement and support of the football club and the supporters’ club, which […]
- [Luton Town](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/luton-town/): Hatters’ Heritage –  by Roger Wash What’s the formal status of your heritage group?  We are a registered charity – a Charitable Incorporated Organisation Which groups are involved? (Supporters Trust / Individuals / Club / local museum / HLF etc)  We, the Trustees, are a group of individuals who came together following an appeal made on the club’s social media sites for supporters to come on board to form a ‘historical society’ to preserve the history and heritage of the Hatters.  I have been a collector, gatherer and custodian of memorabilia for many years (club historian for 35) and wanted […]
- [OTHER LINKS](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/joining-our-network/other-links-2/): We’ve connected with other bodies and sites too – here are links to these ‘Friends of The Great Save’: Football Supporters’ Association (FSA): the national, democratic, representative body for football supporters in England and Wales. Sporting Heritage: the support organisation for all those who own, look after or work with, sporting stories, collections, and memorabilia.  The National Football Museum: home to the world’s largest public collection of football objects and archives.  Sheffield Home Of Football / Sheffield Football Library: safeguarding and display of historical items and artifacts, both physical and digital, relating to the origin of the game in Sheffield […]
- [ARCHIVE & MUSEUM DATABASE](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/archive-museum-database/): Here we set out the places (that we know of) where collections can be accessed – either in person or online. If you know of others, please get in touch! Physical museums: National Football Museum: The National Football Museum  Athletic Club Bilbao: Athletic Club Museum Charlton Athletic: CAFC Museum Exeter City: ECFC Museum Genoa: Museum of the History of Genoa Sunderland: The Fans Museum Sunderland Watford: Museum of Watford Online collections: Bristol Rovers: Bristol Rovers Memorabilia Cambridge United: 100 Years of Coconuts Derby County: The DCFC Collection Dundee: Dundee Football Club Historical Trust Dunfermline Athletic: Dunfermline Athletic Heritage Trust Everton: The Everton Collection Exeter City: The Grecian […]
- [CLUB CORNERS](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/club-corners/): Many clubs have supporter groups dedicated to the preservation of heritage and memorabilia. No two are the same – they vary in what they do, in their interests and in their specialisations. For this section we asked several groups to tell us how they are organised, and how they go about their work. If you’d like us to add a description of your club heritage group’s work, please get in touch at: thegreatsave@icloud.com.
- [FUNDING ADVICE](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/funding-advice/): Sources of funding blah blah If you’re aiming to set up a football heritage project, sources of funding may be available. Several of the groups and organisations referenced on the site have benefitted from support by the Heritage Lottery Fund or other bodies. To find out more, as a starting point we recommend the advice on fundraising offered in the Sporting Heritage toolkit here: Fundraising – Sporting Heritage
- [TOOLKITS](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/toolkits/): Here you can download some resources that we’ve created. Our ‘Taxonomy of Football Memorabilia’ lists the kinds of items we believe are more or less valuable as regards preservation and / or making a collection. It’s a downloadable PDF here.  Our ‘Beginners’ Guide to the Different Types of Football Heritage Entity’ that you might set up aims to help with some real world examples. Downloadable PDF here. We’ve also put together The Great Save ‘Digitisation Route to Preserving Collections’. You can download that here.
- [CASE HISTORIES (GREAT SAVES)](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/case-histories-great-saves/): Here are some of our favourite examples of football memorabilia being saved – for other supporters to enjoy, for archiving or even re-purposing… Notts County’s recycled seating Charlton Athletic’s missing minute book Reading’s original rules Watford’s news photographs digitised Surrey Herald Cup Soccer Ashes trophy re-discovered
- [CONTACT US](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/joining-our-network/contact-us/): Please get in touch with any queries, ideas or suggestions or, better still, share your story of what’s been saved, or what group you’ve set up, so we can add it to the site.
- [LEARN MORE ABOUT US](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/joining-our-network/learn-more-about-us/): The Great Save is a fan-based blog that seeks to highlight the problem of saving valuable football memorabilia and to guide supporters, collectors and organisations towards the emerging solutions. At present we have three writers who are all working at a high level with the preservation of their own club’s heritage and using it to engage current and future generations of supporters and the wider community. We’re here to share our knowledge, experiences – and problems! What do we mean by memorabilia? Match programmes are the obvious but far from the most valuable. We’d include club trophies, record books, tickets, […]
- [SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWS FEED](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/joining-our-network/blog/): From time to time we publish news updates. You can catch up with all of these here: If you’d like to receive these direct to your email inbox, type your email in the space below and click on the ‘subscribe’ button.
- [HELPING FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS SAVE VALUABLE ITEMS FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE FANS TO ENJOY](https://thegreatsave.net/): Are you keen to preserve football memorabilia? Are you aware of items at risk of being lost? We’re here to help! Our goal is to help save valuable football memorabilia. We aim to guide supporters, collectors and organisations towards finding solutions. We’re a fan-based site, and are here to share advice, knowledge, contacts, experiences – and problems! FINDING A HOME: If you want to find a home for items, click here: CREATING A HOME: If you’re seeking to organise a collection, click here: CLUB CONTACTS: If your interest relates to a specific club, click here: There’s all sorts of stuff […]
- [LEARNING WHAT'S VALUABLE](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/learning-whats-valuable/): As a guide to items that we think are at risk and worth saving, whether for preservation or making a collection, we’ve created what we’ve called The Great Save Taxonomy of Football Memorabilia. It’s a downloadable PDF here.  We’ve designed a colourful version of it too – see below. It’s also downloadable as a PDF here:
- [JOIN OUR NETWORK](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/joining-our-network/)
- [CREATING A GOOD HOME](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/creating-a-good-home/): If you need help with organising a collection, you aren’t alone. These pointers might provide ideas or inspiration. Here you can find:
- [HOW TO FIND A GOOD HOME](https://thegreatsave.net/got-football-memorabilia-you-want-to-preserve/how-to-find-a-good-home/): In this section: As a guide to items that we think are at risk and worth saving, whether for preservation or making a collection, we’ve created what we’ve called The Great Save Taxonomy of Football Memorabilia. It’s a downloadable PDF here.  We’ve also designed a colourful version of it…


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