Friday lunchtime CPD webinar: Archive Service Accreditation: making it happen
Speaker: Melinda Haunton RMARA, Programme Manager (Accreditation) at The National Archives
Online - Friday 29 May 2026 - 1.00pm to 1.30pm
Description: Archive Service Accreditation has been the UK management standard for archives since 2013, developed by a partnership of professional and national archives bodies, and managed by a sector-owned governing Committee. Accreditation has recently been updated, so this is a great time to review whether an application is realistic for your archive service, to refresh yourself on how Accreditation works, or to start actively planning towards Accreditation.
Accreditation can seem like a challenge from the outside, but it is designed to work for archive services of many different types and sizes. Scalability is built into how applications are assessed. Smaller archives have successfully applied from the outset, including plenty with lone or fractional professional posts. But it would be great to have more applications from smaller services, and this will be a focus of the session.
This session will include a short familiarisation talk about the programme, and an open forum for your questions. It’s a chance to check in about anything you want to discuss, from how to deal with particular circumstances to the recent updates to the standard. We will focus on getting the most out of working towards an application and on keeping preparation realistic to your scale. Sharing questions and solutions will help all attendees in engaging with Accreditation.
About our presenter: Melinda Haunton RMARA manages the Accreditation programme, based at The National Archives (UK). She works in the Archives Sector Leadership department, focusing on supporting the wider archives sector. Melinda is a qualified archivist, an ARA Professional Registration assessor, and teaches emerging professionals on the archives programme at the University of Dundee.
Booking and delegate fee: Free
The closing date for Eventbrite bookings is Wednesday 27th May 2026. Joining instructions will be sent 24 hours before the start date.
Please book your place here before Wednesday 27th May 2026 by 2.00pm