Alistair Hardaker
Image: Cambridge United
Youth charity Romsey Mill and digital artist collaborated with the museum on weekly creative workshops with young people in the local community.
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has collaborated with youth charity Romsey Mill to created a special edition shirt at Cambridge United Football Club.
The newly revealed fourth shirt, which celebrates Black History Month, is inspired by ‘An Eighteenth Century Family’, a painting by British-Nigerian artist Joy Labinjo which was both created by the artist and acquired by the museum in 2022.

It features in the museum’s Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition exhibition.
The museum collaborated with youth charity Romsey Mill – the club’s Charity Partner of the Year – and digital artist Antonio Roberts, to host weekly creative workshops with young people in the local community.
A special launch film starring Sullay Kaikai, which tells his story as a black British footballer of Sierra Leone heritage, announced the project, alongside photographs of him and other Cambridge United players inside the Fitzwilliam Museum.
“This project is about more than designing a kit,” said Michael Corley, Fitzwilliam Museum interim deputy director of learning and public programmes. “It’s about these three key organisations coming together to celebrate the extraordinary ambitions of people both past and present.
“Young people across the city continue to be driven to make a positive difference where they live and further afield. By connecting their current aspirations with stories of those who made change in the past, and by showing real career opportunities along the way, we aim to demonstrate that the city is behind them.”
The Cambridge United Fourth Shirt is being sold by the club, and will be worn on-pitch in a match against Bromley on Saturday 18 October. Following the game, the match-worn shirts will be signed and auctioned off in aid of Romsey Mill.