The ARP seeks to signpost people to existing resources and associations where possible, but we have also created some bespoke guidance targeted at the charity sector.
NEW Collecting students’ union archives: new guidance and case studies about students’ unions published on The National Archives in 2025, read more here
NEW Mapping Charity Archives project – Archives sector In 2023-24, Paul Beard completed a six-month placement in The National Archives’ Sector Leadership department, mapping the archives of charities in England.
NEW Guidance and case studies available on the Charity Archives Development Plan – Archives sector
Georgina Brewis, Angela Ellis Paine, Irene Hardill, Rose Lindsey and Rob Macmillan (2021) ‘Co-curation: Archival interventions and voluntary sector records’, AREA (2021), Available open access for all to read: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12768
Georgina Brewis has written a chapter on ‘Using archives and objects in voluntary action research’ in Researching Voluntary Action – Innovations and Challenges, Edited by Jon Dean and Eddy Hogg (2022, bristoluniversitypress.co.uk)
In June 2017 we published Records Management in Charities: A Toolkit for Improvement in partnership with Charity Finance Group and funded by a UCL Public Policy Grant. It is currently available in the updated format (2019) online or in the original (2017) version as a pdf document to download. We have also created a set of training slides to accompany the toolkit.
We also produced some draft guidance on archiving for voluntary organisations Archiving for Voluntary Organisations – Draft Guidance (March 2017).
You can read a selection of blogs and posts relating to this project here.