Aimed at a wider audience from beginners to experienced practitioners. Cited in Digital Preservation for Community Archives, which is best to read first.
A step-by-step overview of the digitisation process.
A project planner and handbook to help you develop your digitisation project idea into a comprehensive plan.
Concise guidance for beginners
A guide that provides an overview of low-cost heritage digitisation and shares inspiring examples.
Lots of great information for community groups about how to engage the public in your project.
How to consider environmental sustainability in your heritage project
Clear and accessible guidance about evaluation, plus case studies
Key points to consider in planning and conducting your evaluation for future projects.
Tips on using Facebook effectively from the award-winning digital archive ‘Beyond the Point’.
A guide from the NCVO about financial management
All government grants, including The National Archives, levelling up etc. are required to be published on this page.
Advice, toolkits and topics to help with fundraising activities.
An outline to the various ways of generating income streams..
Slideshow presentation given at the 2018 Community Archives conference in Birmingham.
Useful information to help improve your organisation's approach to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Guidance provided to help projects. Includes support with meeting Heritage Fund outcomes, grant applications and establishing objectives.
A concise set of basic guidelines for creating a community archive.
Grants between £500 and £10,000 and Small Grants up to £500 within Hampshire only.
Comprehensive suite of information for a group wanting to register as a charity
List of funding programmes from the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Information about funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund
A web resource covering aspects of collection care, collections management, digital preservation and oral history interviewing.
A guide to fair dealing exceptions to copyright that specifically benefit heritage organisations
Everyday Heritage Grants for creative projects in England.