The Business Archives Council (BAC) is delighted to announce the winning applicant of the BAC cataloguing grant for business archives. Launched in April 2010, the grant is in support of the National Strategy for Business Archives. The Council intends to make the grant available annually during strategy implementation, 2010-2015.

Again, an impressive set of applications were received by the June deadline, representing a variety of business collections and localities in the United Kingdom. The judging panel on behalf of the Council has awarded the grant to Norfolk Record Office for cataloguing of the archives of Gaymers, The Gaymer Group Ltd of Attleborough, Norfolk, cider and related beverage manufacturers.

More information about the history of Gaymers and the archives to be catalogued can be found here
http://www.businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/activitiesobjectives/catgrant/2011catwin

Norfolk Record Office is due to complete the project by 31 March 2012. An update on the results will be reported next year in the Business Archives Council newsletter and the catalogues will be made available by the repositories and also submitted to the National Register of Archives (published by The National Archives).