Community Archives
Terms of Reference

The Group is established to monitor and inform developments in the field of Community Archives, act as an expert body on best practice in this area. The Group will bring together bodies and organisations concerned with Community Archives and provide a forum for the regular exchange of views and information between them.

The aims of the group will be:

1. To work to mainstream and embed community archive work within the priorities of archive services.
2. To inform and review strategic developments in relation to the field of community archives.
3. To undertake advocacy to relevant institutions, organisations and stakeholders on matters of current concern in the field of community archives;
4. To review and co-ordinate developments and activities in the field of community archives;
5. To encourage funding to promote sustainability in community archives, in conjunction with other relevant agencies;
6. To encourage the definition of standards in relation to community archives, and to promote their application;
7. To provide advice on community archives to relevant institutions, organisations and stakeholders;
8. To encourage the development and application of evaluation models for community archive activity;
9. To oversee the activities prescribed in the work programme for the Group.

Nurses at the Royal Asylum of Montrose practising with a fire hose c. 1910. Courtesy of the University of Dundee.

The 1984 'birthday cake' exhibition on the South Bank of the River Thames, celebrating 95 years of London Government by the London Country Council, and the Greater London Council. Courtesy of London Metropolitan Archives.

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