Lottery boost to rugby club plans

Fans of Gloucester Rugby Club can contribute to the project

Gloucester Rugby Club is to receive a lottery heritage grant of £50,000 to spend on a project celebrating the club's 130-year-plus history.

The project will make publicly available a wide range of documents, photographs, sound and video.

Much of the material will be provided by Gloucester Rugby and Gloucestershire Archives, but fans will also be able to contribute to the project.

The project will be officially launched on Saturday 29 November.

Project Manager, Malcolm King of the Friends of the Gloucestershire Archives, said: "This major financial contribution from the Heritage Lottery Fund will enable us over the course of the next three years to build an online archive.

"This will capture, preserve, celebrate and share Gloucester's rich rugby heritage, revealing its impact and importance for the community."

The money from the Heritage Lottery Fund will be spent on hardware and software for the digital archive, sound and video equipment and training of volunteers.

It will also be used to promote learning and outreach activities for audiences of all ages, to produce curriculum-based learning activities for primary and secondary schools, and for interactive displays at the club's Kingsholm ground.