In this podcast I chat with Dave Smith from Heritage Quay, Huddersfield University’s archive service and considers community development in an ‘alternative’ context: sporting heritage and rugby league supportersDave was involved in co-producing the national rugby league archive and talks about how he engaged communities of rugby league supporters to develop the archive. He talks about what co-production in this context means; the tensions along the way; how he as a “professional idiot” and the ‘amateur expert’ fans worked together; and how for an archive on a campus university ‘safe spaces’ needed to be created for people unfamiliar with such environments for co-production to happen.Follow:twitter.com/DaveSmithHudtwitter.com/Heritage_QuayPlease support The Community Development Podcast on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast