Season’s greetings and best wishes for 2015 from CHARM (Charity Archivists and Records Manager’s Group) and all charity archives! The RNLI Archive brings us Christmas cards from the 1980s; a snowy RNLI memorial that remembers past sacrifice to inspire future generations; a brand new Shannon Class lifeboat performing 'donuts' after its dedication service that CHARM members saw at our summer meeting at RNLI's HQ; and a statue above the entrance to the RNLI Archive building. The archive gained UNESCO UK Memory of the World status in 2014.

 

You can view the images on the CHARM Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CHARMOnline/posts/1008387749178632

 

Other festive posts from the world of charity archives includes:

 

Leonard Cheshire Disability Archive with their ‘Cheshire Smile’, December 1954: https://www.facebook.com/CHARMOnline/photos/a.777554732261936.1073741825.582944255056319/1005817146102359/?type=1

 

The Children’s Society Archive’s blog about the history of the Christingle service: https://www.facebook.com/CHARMOnline/posts/1006513146032759

 

And  a famous Polar Bear called Brumas from ZSL London Zoo. He features in a list from the ZSL Archive of famous animals at the zoo:

https://www.facebook.com/CHARMOnline/photos/a.777554732261936.1073741825.582944255056319/1001760389841368/?type=1

 

Ian Wakeling

Records, Archive and Data Protection Manager

The Children’s Society

 

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The Children’s Society Records and Archive Centre

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Tower Bridge Business Complex (The Biscuit Factory)

100 Clement’s Road

London SE16 4DG

 

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