ARA Volunteer award 2020
Do you want peer recognition for excellence? Do you need evidence to show your effective engagement with volunteers? If so, why not nominate your archive service for the ARA Archive Volunteering Award?
Winners will have a national platform to celebrate their volunteers’ contribution to the service and gain publicity for their archive’s role in supporting individuals and community through volunteering programmes. Note that the timescale for applications has changed and the deadline date for 2020 will be 15th May 2020. Awards will be announced during Volunteers week 1-7 th June. The Archives and Records Association seeks to celebrate the role of volunteers in supporting archive services, and to collect good practice case studies to inform the wider sector. This award is a key strand of the work of ARA’s Volunteering in Archives, Action Plan, bringing to life the recommendations the ARA report Managing Volunteering inArchives. The award is also supported by The National Archives (UK), the Welsh Government’s Museums, Arts, Archives and Libraries Division, and the Scottish Council on Archives.This award is open to archives across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Awards will be publicised widely throughout and beyond the sector. A short nomination form is available from here and organisations may nominate projects, or ongoing volunteer programmes, that ran during 2019/2020. Nominations will be assessed against three key outcomes:
A) Impact on volunteers
B) Impact on service
C) Wider impact
Completed nomination forms need to be returned to volunteeringaward@archives.org.uk by 30th April 2020.If you have any queries about the award please contact Sally Bevan, Volunteering Awards Administrator, (020 7332 3820) or via volunteeringaward@archives.org.uk***
ARA Ireland Statement on 40th Anniversary
National Gallery of Ireland
Thursday 5 December 2019
On Thursday 5 December 2019 the Archives and Records Association Ireland held an event to commemorate the foundation in 1979 of their predecessor organisation, the Society of Archivists Ireland. The event also included the formal appointment of Aideen Ireland as President of the Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland.
ARA Ireland were honoured to welcome President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins to address the event, and we express our deepest gratitude to President Higgins for his continued support for our organisation and our profession.
We note with thanks the wonderful speech delivered by President Higgins which illustrates this public support, most notably we appreciate the many references to the work of archivists and the many challenges they face. Both a written and an audio version of the speech are available here. More images from the evening, taken by Jenny Mathews, are available on our gallery page.
Finally ARA Ireland’s response to President Higgins’ speech, given on the night by Niamh Ní Charra (Communications Officer, ARA Ireland) in Irish and English, is available to read in both languages here.
