The Fans Museums Dementia and Cognitive Outreach

Aim

We want to create memory boxes containing football related items that we can deliver to care homes/hospitals/hospices on a regular basis

My name is Michael Ganley, I started collecting when I was 10 years old, I am now 54, and I have created the first Fans Museum in the world, why I did this was to support all aspects of Health and Education through my football collection allowing all visitors to wear, hold precious football pieces from match worn shirts, to boots to medals and many other pieces. 

The dream is now to utilise a large collection of programs, books and newspapers as well as other pieces enabling us to deliver them into care schemes, hospitals, hospices for our family and friends who suffer harder day to day health conditions. These items will support Dementia, Alzheimer's, all Cognitive Dissonance.

We are hoping to get companies, businesses and individuals to be part of this project. We'd like to dedicate a memory box to a businesses' logo, persons name or picture on a large storage box. This allows us to bring them into Care Schemes, Hospitals and Hospices. These would allow branding to be exposed, names recognised and family images to be appreciated. This is all about #TheFans who need that support from those who can. We know not everyone can afford £250 + VAT for a yearly sponsorship so any donation is truly appreciated. 

This project closed unsuccessfully on 22nd October 2025