FSA Nomination for Hampshire Whites Member
LUSN propose our Jacqui for the Jacqui Forster Memorial Award
This annual award was created to celebrate and recognise women like Jacqui who give their spare time to promote the values and principles of the supporters’ trust movement.
Nomination for the FSA Jacqui Forster Memorial Award
Nominee: Jacqui Greethurst
It is with immense pride and absolute conviction that we nominate Jacqui Greethurst for the FSA Jacqui Forster Award.
Jacqui Greethurst embodies everything this award represents: unwavering loyalty, tireless dedication, principled advocacy, and a deep-rooted commitment to improving the experience, safety, and voice of football supporters.
An early member of Hampshire Whites, a regional supporters’ group of Leeds United, Jacqui has been instrumental in continuing to build a thriving, inclusive community of Leeds fans on the south coast. She is a founder member of the Leeds United Supporters Network (LUSN), helping to establish a structured, representative platform through which fans’ concerns and ideas can be heard at club level.
Her personal commitment is extraordinary. As a season ticket holder, Jacqui undertakes an eight-hour, 470-mile round trip for every home fixture at Elland Road. She also attends away matches across the country — whether that means local travel from her south-coast home or midweek journeys to Newcastle, Blackpool, London or Norwich, wherever Leeds United play she is there. This is not occasional dedication; it is sustained, year-after-year commitment.
But what truly distinguishes Jacqui is that her efforts extend far beyond her own attendance.
For many years she has:
- Organised match tickets and coordinated travel logistics for Hampshire Whites members.
- Personally supported elderly and disabled supporters, ensuring they can attend matches safely and with dignity.
- Arranged accessible transport solutions and navigated ticketing systems to secure appropriate seating and access provisions.
- Chaired and attended LUSN committee meetings, ensuring regional groups have representation and a unified voice.
- Met regularly with club representatives and executives to advocate on behalf of supporters.
Her work with club officials has covered critical and complex themes including:
- Policing and stewarding practices at home and away fixtures.
- Ticketing allocation, pricing transparency and fairness.
- Health and Safety improvements at Elland Road and away grounds.
- Promotion and visibility of defibrillators and other life-saving equipment.
- Accessibility provision for disabled supporters.
- Communication standards between the club and its fanbase.
- Travel coordination challenges affecting long-distance supporters.
Jacqui does not simply attend meetings — she prepares, consults, gathers feedback from her members, and presents considered, constructive proposals. She is respected not only for her passion, but for her professionalism, fairness and solutions-focused approach.
Her contribution now extends even further. Through her involvement within the Premier League group committee of the Football Supporters' Association, she is contributing at a national level to discussions that shape the supporter experience across the game. She brings with her years of grassroots fan experience, ensuring policy conversations remain grounded in the lived realities of travelling fans.
As someone who has worked alongside both Jacqui Greethurst and Jacqui Forster, I see striking parallels. The same determination. The same courage to challenge when necessary. The same tireless focus on “what is right for supporters.” The same instinct to prioritise others before self.
Jacqui Greethurst’s loyalty is unquestionable.
Her dedication is absolute.
Her impact is measurable.
Her influence is widely respected.
She has devoted countless hours — unseen and uncelebrated — to improving the matchday experience, safeguarding supporter welfare, strengthening representation structures, and ensuring that fans’ voices are heard at every level of the game.
The Jacqui Forster Award recognises individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to supporters’ rights and representation. In every sense — in spirit, in action, and in values — Jacqui Greethurst reflects the very essence of that honour.
We feel there could be no more fitting tribute than to recognise another Jacqui whose work, over many years, has quietly and consistently made football better for others.
Hampshire Whites Jacqui says "The nomination was not successful but I was very honoured to be recognised by the LUSN committee and Hampshire Whites and to be nominated for this award. I have worked hard over many years to ensure Leeds fans, whoever they are, feel they are a part of the Leeds community and that their match day experience is as enjoyable as it can be!
Our congratulations go to the winners of the award.
The Jacqui Forster Memorial Award has returned for 2026 and after receiving a strong list of candidates we are pleased to announce this year’s winners.
The award is named after Jacqui Forster, who worked for Supporters Direct, one of the FSA’s predecessor organisations from 2003 until 2018, when she sadly passed away following a long battle with cancer.
And the joint winners of this year’s Jacqui Forster Memorial Award are Kiki Christofi and Hina Shafi, founders of the SupportHERS Collective.
SupporterHERS Collective is a women-led supporter group that launched in London last July – aided by our Fans for Diversity fund – with a special watch party of England Women’s Euro 2025 warm-up game against Jamaica.
