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  • Dream Time Collective, Winners of the Community Archives awards 2023. Image credit: Wakefield Council.
    Dream Time Collective, Winners of the Community Archives awards 2023. Image credit: Wakefield Council.

Passionate about history in your community?

The Community Archives and Heritage Group supports and promotes community archives in the UK and Ireland. We run conferences, give awards and provide advice and guidance.  If you’re looking for inspiration, watch three videos that bring community archives to life.

  • Awards
    Group of the Month and previous annual award winners
  • Conference
    The 2026 conference will take place on July 8th.
  • Resources
    Online advice and guidance for community archives
  • Annual conference sold out
    Annual conference sold out

    The 2026 Community Archive conference is sold out. But you can still be on the waiting-list.

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  • Get inspired
    Get inspired

    Watch three videos that bring community archives to life.  See the people behind community archive projects, and what they get out of working in community archives.

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Featured
  • December 2024 Group of the Month: Leeds Children's Theatre Archive Group
    December 2024 Group of the Month: Leeds Children's Theatre Archive Group
    An archive that captured the long history of a drama society; somewhere to share all those programmes, posters, press clippings and photos.
  • February 2026 Group of the Month: Pride in Plymouth
    February 2026 Group of the Month: Pride in Plymouth
    February 2026 was LGBTQ+ History month so we were very excited to feature the work of Pride in Plymouth.
  • October 2024 Group of the Month: Windrush in the Far South West
    October 2024 Group of the Month: Windrush in the Far South West
    Members of Culture Club, initiated a small project, with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to look at immigration into the far South West between the dates of 1948 – 1965.
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