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 as well as publishing open access articles, which are listed here:
2026: Paul Beard and Georgina Brewis, ‘Different Traditions: Understanding the Archives and Record Keeping Practices of students’ Unions in Britain’, Cultural and Social History, 1–19. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2577348
2025: Collecting students’ union archives: Guidance and case studies about students’ unions published by The National Archives here
2024 Mapping Charity Archives Paul Beard completed a six-month placement in The National Archives’ Sector Leadership department, mapping the archives of charities in England.
From 2023 Guidance and case studies available on the Charity Archives Development Plan – Archives sector
2021: Georgina Brewis, Angela Ellis Paine, Irene Hardill, Rose Lindsey and Rob Macmillan (2021) ‘Co-curation: Archival interventions and voluntary sector records’, AREA (2021), Open access: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12768
2022: Georgina Brewis, ‘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We also produced some draft guidance on archiving for voluntary organisations Archiving for Voluntary Organisations – Draft Guidance (March 2017).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.