Volunteers needed at the Devon Heritage Centre

Between 2 and 4 pm on Monday 16th November, at the Devon Heritage Centre, the Devon Archives and Local Studies Service will be hosting an event designed to showcase and celebrate the incredibly valuable work which our many dedicated volunteers have carried out over the past year.
There will be presentations by volunteers about the work they have done, together with displays relating to projects which have been undertaken over the last year. The event will form part of the annual Explore Your Archive campaign, co-ordinated by the National Archives and the Archives and Records Association, which this year runs from 14th to 22nd November.

The event is open to both existing and prospective volunteers, and, if you’re someone who is interested in giving your time and skills to the service, we would be delighted to see you at the event. There will be opportunities for would-be volunteers to try their hand at different aspects of the service’s work, and ask questions of staff and existing volunteers.
New volunteers are required for a number of areas of the service’s work, including processing and cataloguing new collections of documents, digitisation and conservation, as well as helping with the Devon Remembers Heritage Project, which is the archive service’s contribution to Devon County Council’s commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, Devon Remembers.
The Devon Remembers Heritage Project will run until early 2019, and will encompass a range of activities which volunteers will be able to get involved in, including the possibility of indexing newspapers for the period, which are held by the Heritage Centre.
Light refreshments will be served during the afternoon.
If you are a potential volunteer interested in attending, please contact Brian Carpenter, Community Learning Officer, at brian.carpenter@devon.gov.uk.