DCDC17 | Archives West Midlands: Collaboration for advocacy and sustainability - AWM
Channel: ResearchLibrariesUK
Date: 20/12/2017

Archives West Midlands: Collaboration for advocacy and sustainability

Joanna Terry, Head of Staffordshire Archives & Heritage and AWM Trustee, Staffordshire County Council
Mary McKenzie, Shropshire Archives Manager and AWM Trustee, Shropshire Council

Archives West Midlands (AWM) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) launched in June 2016. The West Midlands is the only region in which archives services have come together as a charity to enable the sector to be more visible and sustainable for the future. Establishing the new organisation was only possible with initial funding from the National Archives to explore the best model for the archive services to work more closely together. A year after the launch this paper will share learning from the process of establishing the CIO and key achievements in the first year.

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