The work of the Trust has now started in earnest with several applications now submitted for funding to support project proposals from the Archives Service.

one application is to allow longer term work on the Photocentre collection (see Projects page). As described below, an initial grant was won earlier this year to allow a start on the digitisation of images from the collection but if successful, this new grant will allow the work to contunue for another two years.

Our aim for 2023 will be to win major funding of £100,000 + so that an archivist post can be funded for a couple of years to allow inroads to be made into cataloguing and understanding the content of the many family collections donated to the Service by local families and businesses.