National Strategy for Business Archives (England & Wales)
The Business Records Group is proud to support the National Strategy for Business Archives (England & Wales).
The National Strategy looks to promote, manage and exploit the archival legacy of British business. It seeks to achieve this by:
- Raising awareness among businesses of the value of their records and archives, and providing guidance and support from the professional archive community.
- Increasing the number of corporate sector business archives and of business collections in public sector repositories.
- Raising the profile of business records with the public, and throughout the national archival network, while promoting wider usage and exploitation.
- Raising standards in the care of business archives through best practice exemplars, professional training and an improved funding and support infrastructure.
The strategy is supported by a wide range of national archive institutions and organisations including the Business Archives Council, Museum, Libraries and Archives Council, and the National Council on Archives. The National Archives leads the strategy, with Alex Ritchie, the Business Archives Advice Manager, being based at TNA.
Launched on 9th July 2009, the strategy is available from the downloads box at the bottom of this page. The BRG is involved in the implementation of many of the strategy's action points. If you are interested in helping us work towards these, please do get in touch with us: brg@archives.org.uk.
To support the strategy, the Managing Business Archives website gives a wealth of information on best practice for business archives.
Last modified 08/07/2009
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