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Government Spending Cutbacks – What Can Be Done?

The current cutbacks following the review in Government spending seem to be hitting pretty much everyone within Bereavement Services at the moment. I had a meeting with a Bereavement Services manager a few of weeks ago who said that he was expecting budget cuts of between 30% and 40%.  These cuts will come after already [...]

ICCM Conference

From 27th September to 29th September 2010 you will be able to find TownsWeb Archiving Ltd exhibiting at the Institute of Cemetery and Cremation Management Conference at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth. We hope you will be able to take the time to visit us and enter our FREE prize draw to win a bottle [...]

Archive Funding Opportunity

The Museums Association have released further information about one of their funding initiatives aimed at encouraging Museums to increase the usage of any collections that are considered underused. Further information can be found on the MA website.. 

Society of Archivists Conference

This years Society of Archivist Conference will be held at the Ramada Manchester Piccadilly Hotel from 1st September to 3rd September 2010. The Information Marketplace takes place on Thursday 2nd September and offers the opportunity for visitors to meet with potential suppliers.  We look forward to meeting with you there.

Prevent Your Archives Being Lost Forever

So what exactly has happened to the Summer? The long Sunny days in May and June seem like a far distant memory! Heavy rain this week brought localised flooding – mainly to Southern England.  Up to 4cm (1.5in) of rain – more than half the normal monthly total came pouring down.  Forecasters are warning of further heavy rainfall to come! [...]

New Services Page

Want to digitise your archives and/or put them online but don’t know where to start? TownsWeb Archiving Ltd have created new Step by Step Guides to help you understand exactly what is meant by digitisation and archiving. Furthermore we’ve added more CASE STUDIES and TESTIMONIALS to our website which will hopefully prove invaluable to you when [...]

Shepshed Council: Digitise & Transcribe Cemetery Registers and Maps – Onsite

Shepshed is located in a pretty area just to the West of Loughborough in North Leicestershire. The council approached TownsWeb Archiving to ask if we could scan their registers and maps at their offices in Shepshed.  Due to the fact that there were no duplicate copies of these records, they didn’t want to risk sending [...]

FBCA Conference

Early in July we exhibited at the Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon. It was great to catch up with some familiar faces and to say hello to some new ones too… We were told that the discussion papers were very interesting and that it was a very worthwhile event for all delegates. [...]

Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust: Digitise Photographic Collection and Put Online

ARE YOU LOOKING TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR ARCHIVES? ARE YOU LOOKING TO MAKE YOUR ARCHIVE ACCESSIBLE ONLINE? Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust (WLCT) was formed in 2003. The organisation is a charitable trust working on behalf of Wigan Council to manage and support Leisure and Cultural facilities, initiatives and events for over 300,000 residents across [...]

Qidenus Robotic Book Scanner to appear at IFLA World Congress 2010

TownsWeb Archiving are the exclusive UK resellers of the Quidenus Robotic Book Scanner and we are proud to announce that there will be an opportunity to see it in motion at the IFLA World Congress 2010 in Gothenburg Sweden. In the first term of this year 2010, the Robotic Book Scanner has been used on [...]