Supporting Scotland's Sporting Heritage

Using money raised by National Lottery players

The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports projects that connect people and communities with the UK’s heritage. Supporting Scotland’s Sporting Heritage is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Thanks to National Lottery players, Supporting Scotland’s Sporting Heritage will run from 2026-2028, with the aim of making collections more accessible, securing collections at-risk, and deepening the publics understanding of Scotland’s rich sporting history. 

Supporting Scotland’s Sporting Heritage will:

  • Implement a national programme of surveying Scotland’s sporting archive collections that will engage custodians and users of collections.
  • Deliver a suite of public engagement activities overseen by a Sporting Heritage Engagement Officer.

About the Ballast Trust

Established in 1988, the Ballast Trust is today an operating name of the Lind Foundation SCIO. The Trust provides a rescue, sorting and cataloguing service for business archives with an emphasis on technical records such as shipbuilding, railway and engineering plans, drawings and photographs.

Since 2014 it has supported and been home to the Business Archives Surveying Officer. This role was created in 1977 to provide specialist archive advice and guidance on the management and storage of business archives. In this way, the Surveying Officer helps businesses and third-sector organisations to safeguard and realise the value of their unique documentary heritage.

About The National Lottery Heritage Fund


Our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future. That’s why as the largest funder for the UK’s heritage we are dedicated to supporting projects that connect people and communities to heritage, as set out in our strategic plan, Heritage 2033.

Heritage can be anything from the past that people value and want to pass on to future generations. We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to the past.

Over the next 10 years, we aim to invest £3.6billion raised for good causes by National Lottery players to make a decisive difference for people, places and communities.

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Scotland’s sporting past has the potential to inspire new stories and forms of engagement for intergenerational and international audiences.

Prof Richard Haynes, University of Stirling

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