The community has always been at the heart of the Fans Museum, whether that is viewing the collection or events at the museum or our many community outreach events. Our outreach covers care schemes, schools, hospitals, shopping centres and much more. See our timeline below for the history of our community and outreach work
Well we are here, Houghton Comrades. What a fantastic reception we have been given. Kevin is on form and the jokes are starting very early. What a lovely surprise it is that we have a certain #GoldenBoot too. We hope the great folks who attended last night enjoyed the show.…
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This was the 2nd annual match we were invited to support. No doubt many more to come #neublastoma #CancerHasNoColours
Great hearing the stories today from Len Ashurst. 458 games and loves the 20th Anniversary Supplement too.
With today being an Anniversary we lost one of our players, I feel it only fitting to share a piece of the clubs history and to tell you about how I obtained this beautiful piece. One Monday morning, I get a message through from a collector in the Ukraine asking…
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We just had to get involved at the Washington Carnival. There were parades, circus skills, go karts and plenty of brilliant people. Certainly something we would love to take part in again; making memories with as many as possible.
Happy Birthday @Peter_Shilton and what a great night in support of the nurses at Phoenix ward #FansMuseum
So honoured to be invited to support a 30th Anniversary of #blackhistorymonth. We set the mood last year when we held the #diversity cup with @sunderlanduni bringing students from all around the #World to compete in a #football tournament. We also supplied a huge lovely trophy, which will now become…
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We always do our best to aid the community and, when Legendary footballers frequently visit the museum, opportunity presented itself once again. Here is to Sunderland 2021 with Kevin Phillips right behind it.
St Aldates Court, in Grindon, it’s been a pleasure to be part of the day, we are pretty sure it was a blast for everyone who attended. #Generations coming together, stories and memories flowing, huge thank you to @SunderlandEcho for the continuous support you offer our #City. Few more who…
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#Winners Best Age Friendly Business, Thank you so much those who voted for us, a true honour ⚽️❤️
The first Tuesday of the month I dedicate my time to our Senior Supporters. Today was another great day adding a new member. An invite was offered to the meeting, however it was replied with “bit too last minut”e, which I was fine with, but then we arrived at his…
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Today is the day we try and raise more funds and awareness for 3 great causes, and no doubt a fully enjoyable evening for all who are attending tonight. I’m always wanting to support our fine City, and the Ambassadors that continue to make great efforts to build it to…
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Who wants to be on the #Team #4Fans with #BowelCancer? We are looking to start a campaign & support. Start the ball rolling, click the link if you want to join in our team, http://decembeard.org/register My bed for the night, in support of the children who are homeless, we raised…
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I would like to say a massive thank you to the SAFC Fans Museum for putting on a great show at Ron’s funeral yesterday here at the Board Inn. A very touching day and a great send off for a SAFC legend of old. Thanks especially to Michael Ganley for…
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What a great day it was, and what fantastic residents they all are, If they do another event, please attend, you will be very happy you did. Thank you to Sunderland Echo for featuring our day event at St Aldates Court. Trying to raise not only funds, but more awareness,…
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Michael Ganley has now formally taken over at the former Monkwearmouth Station Museum building, which will house his extensive collection of football memorabilia. It will be SAFC Museum’s first permanent home after it put on temporary displays in Hendon, The Bridges and the City Library venues since 2014 Legendary Sunderland…
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Lee Howey dropped in today to see us and talked SunderlandEcho about his new book. We wonder who else will be dropping in to see us in the future.
Today Ernie Jones thought he was celebrating his birthday at the fans museum. We surprised him with standard bearers from Sunderland’s Armed Forces Network. Then, ex-SAFC skipper Kevin Ball passed on gifts and cut his birthday cake. We couldn’t have arranged the surprise without assistance from Veterans in Crisis’s Ger…
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Well it seemed the team of volunteers we had from EE in Doxford Park had a very pleasant day although, we can’t imagine that these angels could be anything other than good. ??❤️ They did a sterling job! We hope the next group are as equally crazy. Thank you and we…
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Tonight we took along over 35 match worn shirts from players. They may have faced more prejudice being black, than just ability. SRTRC England bringing Fans the awareness tonight from benno4 has been great so far.
This man knew how to score. He also scored the 3 against Derby many years ago. It could be an omen Vic Halom so, thank you for popping in today to see the progress of the Fans Museum.
A few images from the Veterans In Crisis. They had a great day and we are certainly looking forward to seeing them all back and any new members today.Why not drop in to see us at the Fans Museum? ?⚽️ https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/forces-veterans-enlisted-help-sunderland-fans-museum-project-352935
Thank you to our team of volunteers from EE Doxford International. People like this are crucial to us.
Huge thank you to Neil and Suzanne from @StadiumStone1 who have took a sponsorship in return to supplying our granite bar counter and tables.
Totally saddened to have had a call from Winston Young’s daughter, to hear the horrendous news about her dad and a former player and someone I built up a great friendship with over the last 15 years. Only after last weeks meeting and arranging with Winston to come in the…
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Always great knowing the Impact we have in and around our City. These are the Sunderland Spinners and are due to compete in the National Handicap Competition for Blind and Visually Impaired People, next month in Wigan. Let’s give these guys some support and they all will know what messages…
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Hope you guys had a great day in the Corney O’Donnell Memorial Cup. Seen here are Garry Burlinson & Chris Leach with our ambassador at SunderlandAFC. Jimmy Montgomery with two of his England worn shirts.
Some of the team from last night, a great team bonding for all of those who have got onboard with the #FansMuseum. A thank you from myself. We hope to see many more new members and sponsors getting involved too. But nights like this bring us all together as #Fans…
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We are doing a 3 day ,May 3rd to May 6th, campaign to raise the awareness of #Alzheimers & #Dementia raising funds so we can build a dedicated booth for all families to attend. We have some huge prizes so grab a ticket and a picture. A huge thank you…
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Well what a great start to Sunday at the Fans Museum. Huge appreciation to Rob Tennant and Paul Sumby from AMAR-KOTE. Both guys have gave up there time today to push on the painting, so full credit to them. Thank you guys, hopefully we see them tomorrow with Nathan Crinsom.
