Keeping our local churches, circuits and district Methodist records well managed, fulfilling our legal responsibilities and telling the story of our heritage and mission.
In this district we take good records and archive management seriously and want to support all circuits to do this too.
When to contact our District Archivist:
- Your church has a Methodist cupboard/safe/vestry full of documents going back years and they are more or less invisible and ignored
- You have a manse full of files you inherited from the last Minister
- You’ve found a box of minute books in the church loft/ toy cupboard/garage
- You have more than six years’ worth of church council/circuit minutes in a file/multiple files
- You are interested in learning more about the circuit archivist role
- You have all your church/circuit minutes on your personal computer
- You are in the process of closing your church and need advice on what to do with your documents
- You are amalgamating churches or circuits and need advice on what to do with your documents
- You have found documents in the home of a loved one that seem to be Methodist documents and you think someone ought to have them
- You are already doing all this at your local Methodist church/circuit – we would love to hear all about it and work together in the future
Additional Information:
The new Methodist Archivists’ Handbook, created with funding from The National Archives, is an excellent resource and a Methodist first of its kind. The Handbook equips volunteer archivists with guidance to deal with the records in your care with confidence.
- Further information about archives and records can be found on the Methodist Church website here.
- Resources to research Methodist History and Family History can be found here.
- Methodist Heritage information can be found here.
For further advice on the circuit archivist role and what your circuit should be archiving please contact Julie Compton, district archivist, on our contact page.