Resilience Grants funded in 2026
Here are the proposals that were awarded Resilience Grants in 2026, to enable change and develop organisational resilience in the archive sector.
Bristol Archives
Bristol Archives has received a £20,000 resilience grant which will enable them to set up a digital preservation project. They will be assessing their current provision and surveying all of their digital holdings. This will help them to better understand what they already have, in addition to planning for more robust and future-proof management of digitised and born-digital archives.
We are thrilled to have received this Resilience grant. We increasingly receive archives which only exist in digital formats which currently poses big challenges for us. The timing is perfect as Bristol Archives will be inspected by The National Archives for Archives Accreditation later this year, and we are already committed to supporting the lottery-funded Sounds of the South West audio heritage digitisation project which started in January.
Charlotte Berry, City Archivist
Bristol Archives
Roma Support Group
Since 1998, the Roma Support Group (RSG) has documented the history of Roma migration, settlement, community development, and Roma contributions to London’s social and cultural life. During this time, they have produced and collected material through their work with Roma communities. This has formed a unique archive that reflects lived experience, as well as the social, political, and policy changes that have shaped Roma lives. RSG will use their resilience grant to support their ‘Paths and Papers: The Roma Resilience Archive’ Project. They will preserve their collection and allow it to be accessed and used by wider Roma communities, researchers, students, schools, educators, public authorities, policy makers, and members of the public.
By preserving and making our archive accessible to the public, we hope to enhance understanding of Roma migration, their contribution and community-led charge to challenge stereotypes and support learning, research, policy development and inclusive practice. In partnership with The London Archives, we will ensure that the history of Roma migration is preserved as part of the wider history of London and made available as a public resource, creating a lasting legacy for future generations.
Sylvia Ingmire, CEO of Roma Support Group
Roma Support Group