WP4120 - Walsall Archive for All, Community Engagement Delivery Partner

The Council is seeking a high-quality provider to deliver community engagement programme as per specification for The Walsall Archive for All project.

Walsall Council has received confirmation of funding via the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) to deliver: A new, digital archive project to deepen our understanding of Walsall’s cultural evolution. Co-curating untold heritage stories through material captured by local people. Uncovering hidden archives, representing culture across the Borough, and celebrating through exhibitions within shared spaces, online and in-person. Inspired by the borough-wide collection of one local individual, Jack Haddock, audio and visual content will be digitally archived from people across the Borough, telling communities’ stories. Celebrating identity, heritage and shared experience.

Through the digitisation of thousands of images and audio history recordings, in partnership with Walsall Council Archives, Walsall for All, and Walsall College, the project will platform inter-generational and inter-cultural representation within a more diverse, accessible and usable digital archive platform – publicly accessible into the future. Creating an Archive for All, a people’s archive, representative of the Borough’s evolving identity as captured by local people.