Volunteers
Volunteers play a vital role in many of the Archives 4 All projects. This has given individuals the chance to learn new skills and to enhance their employability. It has also offered local people the social benefit of becoming involved in contributing to a greater understanding of their own and their community's history.
The project Steam and Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Access Project will create new opportunities for volunteers to work at the Museum of English Rural Life. The volunteers will catalogue engineering drawings under the supervision of the Project Archivist and learn basic conservation skills.
Letter in the Attic is offering training opportunities for up to 20 volunteers to become involved in the collection, cataloguing, online publication and storage elements of the project. Similarly the projects Cotton Threads and 1967 and all that are employing volunteers, who will gain new skills in digitisation, preservation and handling of documents.
Local volunteers are also being used for cataloguing and research at several other Archives 4 All projects including Buried Battles and Veteran Voices, queerupnorth, Frodsham Local History, Explore North Devon, Records and Memories of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and What's Beneath Your Feet?.
