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West Yorkshire Archive Service
West Yorkshire Archive Service

Accreditation Scheme

In 2009 the West Yorkshire Archive Service (WYAS) received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to undertake a three year long project 'West Yorkshire: Our Stories’ aimed at increasing community participation with both the archive service and local heritage and history. One element of this project is the Accreditation Scheme which has been developed to create a benchmark of best practice which groups will be able to work towards at their own pace. It is being run in collaboration with a training programme, also provided by the service, which will offer support to groups involved in the accreditation process.


Aim

To create an information resource that sets a benchmark for best practice within community heritage groups, raising standards in all core activities of such groups whilst actively promoting sustainability of both practice and collections.


Objectives

  • •Create a set of basic and achievable standards for the core activities of community heritage groups.
  • •Create the opportunity for groups to gain a recognisable mark that indicates the high standards they are working to.
  • •Create usable and accessible information resources that are supported by training provision to ensure groups feel able to
      complete the Accreditation process.

An up to date copy of the Accreditation Scheme can be found here and information about what the scheme is can be found here.

 

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