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Charity and voluntary sector archives

A collaborative, interdisciplinary project that promotes the preservation and use of the archives and records of charities, voluntary and community organisations.

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Charity Archives Development Plan

Georgina Brewis / 28 October, 2022

Find out about the Charity Archives Development Plan, a three to five year action plan for charity archives in the UK.

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Filling in the blanks: Why charities must take records management seriously

Georgina Brewis / 29 June, 2017

Getting my records has filled in blanks as I had lived a life of non-existence, I had nothing of my past, nothing was there, it was empty. This eloquent testimony from a care leaver in 2013 was shared by the…

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Improving records management in charities – a new toolkit

Georgina Brewis / 8 June, 2017

What records do charities need to keep? How long should they be retained? What legislation and regulations on record keeping do charities need to comply with? I’m very pleased to announce that our new toolkit to help charities and voluntary organisations…

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Registration Open for ‘Recording the Voluntary Sector’, 5th June 2015, The British Academy

Charlotte Clements / 6 May, 2015

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for ‘Recording the Voluntary Sector’ which will officially launch the British Academy research project ‘Digitising the Mixed Economy of Welfare in Britain.’ This is a five year infrastructure project led by…

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This website is run by the British Academy Research Project ‘Archiving the Mixed Economy of Welfare’ a collaborative, interdisciplinary project that promotes the preservation and use of the archives and records of charities, NGOs, voluntary and community organisations.  These  are increasingly vulnerable in a period of austerity. We see the such archives and records as strategic assets for governance, corporate identity, accountability and research.

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