Jersey Archive Annual Report 2020

Conserving our Island story

2020 ANNUAL REPORT ON THE WORK OF JERSEY HERITAGE AND THE ARCHIVIST UNDER THE PUBLIC RECORDS (JERSEY) LAW, 2002

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION  3  ARCHIVE ACCREDITATION  18 RECORDS ADVISORY PANEL  4 APPENDIX A

PUBLIC RECORDS TRANSFERRED IN 2020 19 21 IDENTIFICATION OF ARCHIVES 5

APPENDIX B

CASE STUDY COLLECTING CORONAVIRUS 6 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 22 - 23 TRANSFER OF ARCHIVES 7  APPENDIX C

ARCHIVE FUNDING 24

CASE STUDY - PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL STORAGE DEVELOPMENTS 8

PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND SECURITY  9 ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS  10

CASE STUDY PRESERVATION DIGITISATION OF THE

BAILIFF S OCCUPATION AND LIBERATION FILES 11 ACCESS TO ARCHIVES CATALOGUING AND INDEXING 12 CASE STUDY ONLINE ACCESS 13 ACCESS TO ARCHIVES IN PERSON AND ONLINE  14 CASE STUDY TALKS AND TOURS GO ONLINE 15

RECORDS OPENED, JANUARY 2021  16 MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT  17

INTRODUCTION

2020 was a year which showed the importance of recording and preserving contemporary thoughts, memories, reactions and Government decisions. The entire Island community has felt the impact of the global pandemic in significant and different ways and the steps we have taken to adapt our lives will be part of the research agendas of the future.

Jersey Archive has worked to record Government, community and individual reactions to the events of 2020 at the same time as adapting the service we provide to ensure that individuals can still connect with their heritage. Over the course of 2020 we provided 46 online talks and saw the use of our online catalogue more than double with over 200,000 research sessions during the course of the year.

Staff continued to catalogue collections from home with over 46,000 new records added to the online catalogue in 2020. We also completed the digitisation of the Bailiff s Occupation and Liberation files, one of our most significant collections which is listed as part of the UNESCO UK Memory of the World programme, giving access to this material online for the first time.

The new extension to Jersey Archive was completed in 2020 and we started to accept collections into the new strongroom block in October once the environmental conditions were suitable for storage. With over 6,000 boxes of records ready to be moved to the Jersey Archive from public institutions, the transfer, cleaning and repackaging of this material will be a major priority for the team in 2021.

The new strongroom block will give 30 years more storage space for physical records at Jersey Archive. In 2020 we also continued to add digital records to our

digital preservation system ensuring that these records are checked for format obsolescence and preserved for future generations of researchers. A complete audit of all heterogeneous material in our strongrooms including floppy disks, cassettes, VHS and film is planned for 2021. We will then work to digitise these collections

to ensure that the information they contain remains readable.

In 2020 we welcomed additional support from Government for the Jersey Archive with funding provided for additional posts. Recruitment to these posts was delayed due to the pandemic but staff are now in place to work with the team on conservation, preservation, digitisation, records management, digital and cataloguing backlogs. With additional staff now in place we plan to increase our opening hours in 2021 to allow further in person access to archive records.

The team at Jersey Archive have worked incredibly hard to adapt and develop the service that we provide in 2020, finding new ways of reaching our audiences and ensuring that we continue our work to record Jersey s unique story.

Linda Romeril

Archives and Collections Director, Jersey Heritage - 19 April 2021

RECORDS ADVISORY PANEL

During 2020 the Records Advisory Panel kept under review the performance of the Archivist and Jersey Heritage and of their duties under the Public Records Law. As we all know, 2020 was a year of huge disruption because of the global pandemic. It is to the great credit of both the Archivist and Jersey Heritage that they have been able to maintain and adapt services during these unprecedented times, and indeed to make significant progress across many areas.

The duties of the Archivist and Jersey Heritage under the Law are many and varied, as might be expected of a public archives service, and they include the following:

appraisal of public records

physical and digital storage

cataloguing of records

conservation, preservation and security

provision of public access, along with support facilities and information maintaining a public archives building

giving advice and assistance on records management

promoting and undertaking research

employing and training suitably qualified staff

These services have all been maintained and developed during 2020, and further details are given in the Archivist s report. There have been two particularly welcome developments during the year:

The completion of the Archive Extension, thereby providing storage space for physical records for at least the next 30 years, as well as a server room for the storage of digital archives, along with other support facilities.

The provision of extra funding from the Government of Jersey for the creation

of four additional posts. This will enable the Archive to strengthen its work on several key functions, including cataloguing, conservation and digital preservation. The need for additional funding in these areas was identified by the Archivist in her 2018 Report, and the Panel is pleased to see that this issue has now been addressed.

The Archivist and her team at the Jersey Archive are to be congratulated on another successful year of operation, a period of continuing development and innovation.

Jeremy Harris

Chairperson,

Records Advisory Panel

Jersey Heritage - 19 April 2021

PUBLIC RECORDS LAW COMPLIANCE IDENTIFICATION OF ARCHIVES

The Public Records (Jersey) Law defines a record as information that is created or  received in the conduct of a corporate, institutional or individual activity and has such  content, context and structure as to provide evidence of the activity. The Law is format  neutral and therefore covers both physical and digital records. The Law goes on to define  public records as any record that has been created or received by a public institution in  the performance of its functions.  

These broad descriptions of both records and  provide subject matter expertise and information  public records mean that every year millions of  on any legal and administrative requirements for  records produced by public institutions, from  retention.

emails to minutes of meetings and application  

forms to acts of Court, are covered by the Public  The archive contacts all public institutions to  Records Law.  recommend 5 yearly reviews of retention schedules  

to ensure that they still cover all the records  

One of the key roles of the team at Jersey Archive  produced by the institution. There are currently  

is to identify which records have long-term archival  191 signed off schedules in place across public  value and to ensure that public institutions are  institutions and 23 of these were reviewed in 2020.  aware that these records need to be transferred to  In 2020 we also created an overarching retention  Jersey Archive.  schedule, applicable to all departments to highlight  

records produced as a result of the Coronavirus  The tool that is used to identify archival material is  pandemic.  

the departmental retention schedule, which lists  

the records produced by the institution, the length  

of time they should be kept and then whether they  

are confidentially disposed of or transferred to  

Jersey Archive for permanent retention.

Retention schedules are produced following  consultation between the Jersey Archive and the  public institution responsible for the creation of  the records. This collaborative approach, set out in  the law, allows Jersey Archive staff to provide an  independent, archiving and research perspective  on the retention of records and the institution to  

CASE STUDY IDENTIFICATION - COLLECTING CORONAVIRUS

In 2020 there has been a definite sense that we have been living though a unique historic period with the coronavirus pandemic having a significant and lasting impact on the whole community, both globally and locally. Over the past year our daily lives have changed and it has been important for Jersey Heritage to record as many aspects of that change as possible to ensure that we can tell the story of our experience of the pandemic to future generations.

 Will indoor gatherings of older people ever be allowed again before we have all forgotten how to dance?

In March 2020, as we entered lockdown, the Archive and Collections teams started to look at the best ways to record the events of 2020, both from a Government and private perspective. Jersey Archive receives all Government of Jersey press releases and archiving these communication tools is one of the ways that

we can track the official Government response to

the pandemic. The archive also crawls the gov.je website on a weekly basis. In July 2020 we produced a retention schedule for all public institutions which specifically looked at records that contained details that will help us to show each institution s role and response to the pandemic. Records such as meeting minutes, strategies, reports, policies, procedures and projects and schemes set up in response to Covid-19 have been designated as having archival value and should be transferred to Jersey Archive in due course.

We can see the importance of gathering this information by looking at press releases sent by Government in early 2020. The first indication of the pandemic was the cancellation of a school visit from Bayi School, Beijing to Hautlieu School on 24 January. On 30 January 2020 a press release was issued to inform the public that a dedicated Coronavirus page had been set up on the Government of Jersey website stating at the time that, There are no confirmed Coronavirus cases in the UK, and no suspected or confirmed cases in Jersey. The press releases show that by 31 January there were 2 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the UK and on Tuesday 10 March the first case of Coronavirus was confirmed in Jersey.

As well as collecting the official records of the pandemic Jersey Heritage wanted to encourage

people to share their own experiences of and reactions to their situation. We recognised that everyone s experience of Coronavirus would be different depending on their personal circumstances and as far as possible we wanted to encourage people to share those experiences through images, text and film.

 We ve been at home for three weeks now and whilst it s taken a bit of time to get into a routine it has been a very special time for us as a family. The children love being able to spend so much time with us, and each other, as well as having the freedom to play.

PUBLIC RECORDS LAW COMPLIANCE - TRANSFER OF ARCHIVES

Once public records have been defined as having archival value in the  institution s retention schedule it is a requirement of the Public Records  Law that those records are transferred to Jersey Archive after 20 years.  The law allows for records to be transferred sooner if this is agreed by  the institution and archive. In the majority of cases an earlier transfer  

is preferable to physical records being retained in unsuitable storage  conditions or digital records being allowed to become obsolete.

In 2020 large transfers of public records were disrupted by Coronavirus restrictions  and the lockdown period. The new block at the archive was completed in mid-2020  but to ensure compliance with the relevant archival standards we waited until the  block had dried out sufficiently before placing archive records in the strongrooms.  Conditions met appropriate standards for temperature and humidity in November  2020 and therefore we began to arrange the transfer of the backlog of around 6,000  boxes of public records that has built up since 2018.  

Significant items that were transferred during 2020 include a plan of Fort Regent  Rotunda from Property Holdings, the Trinity School punishment book, 1917-1957 and  photographs, phonecards and publicity material, 1923-1998 from Jersey Telecom.  

A full list of collections of public records can be viewed at Appendix A.  

CASE STUDY TRANSFER - PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL STORAGE DEVELOPMENTS

In 2020 work was completed on the £3.5 million extension to the Jersey Archive. The extension provides additional storage for physical documents that should last for at least 30 years and also includes a new server room for the storage of digital archives. The extension has allowed us to provide additional loading bay space for quarantining and cleaning documents that arrive at the archive with mould, insect infestation or surface dirt.

The extension has been built to meet national standards for the correct temperature and humidity for storage of archives but achieves these standards using passive means of control. This ensures that we sustainably meet the appropriate standards for the long-term preservation of the documents.

In 2020 the amount of digital material transferred to Jersey Archive under the Public Records Law doubled and we anticipate that this shows a long-term trend in which the amount of physical material transferred to the archive will reduce as the amount of digital material increases.

Digital preservation brings its own challenges of authenticity, file format obsolescence and long-term storage. Digital records that are transferred to the archive are stored on the Arkivum digital preservation system which creates three complete copies of the digital material in different geographic locations, monitors files format obsolescence and creates fixity information on ingest allowing us to audit the authenticity of the digital material.

PUBLIC RECORDS LAW COMPLIANCE - CARE OF ARCHIVES - CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION AND SECURITY

The preservation of the unique records that we care for at Jersey Archive is one of the key functions of the service. During the lockdown period in 2020 we continued to ensure that the environmental conditions in the archive strongroom blocks were monitored on a 24/7 basis and that the conditions in each strongroom were checked remotely on a daily basis. To ensure the continued security of the collections we had one member of staff at Jersey Archive on a daily basis during the working week. This also allowed us to react quickly to any changes in environmental conditions that required on site action.

As staff started to return to the workplace we continued to ensure that all collections being transferred to the  archive were inspected on arrival and then cleaned, checked for mould and insect infestation and repackaged in  acid free folders and boxes. The quarantine room and extended loading bay facilities that were constructed as part  of the new extension at Jersey Archive have allowed us to take in up to 200 boxes at a time for processing.  

In 2020 we received the results of our Preservation Assessment Survey which was carried out in late 2019. The  survey gives a 5 yearly assessment of the preservation needs of the collections stored at Jersey Archive and informs  our priorities going forward over the next 5 years. The report concluded that;

 The archive collection held by the Jersey Archive continues to be well  cared for  

The survey highlighted the need for additional staff to work in the areas of cataloguing, conservation and digital  preservation to ensure that the high standard of collections care continued. Additional staff are now in place in  these areas and we would expect to see positive, further improvements in collections care in the next survey.  

In 2020 we continued our conservation programme of external book binding working with Sycamore Bookbinding.  The programme was impacted by travel restrictions, however, over the course of the year, 20 volumes were rebound  and are now stable in storage. The volumes conserved include a commonplace book from the Parish of St Brelade  which contains copies of enrolments of legislation and crimes and punishments from the 16th and 17th centuries  and draft copies of the States of Jersey minutes from the early 20th century.  

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Ensuring a stable, clean environment for storage of records at Jersey Archive is essential for the long-term preservation of the material. The archive team aims to meet British and European Standards for the storage of archival records and this forms part of our accreditation review. The Jersey Archive strongrooms are designed to control the environment within the strongroom passively, air-conditioning is not used and relative humidity and temperature in the storage areas are continually monitored using a building management system.

The British Standard for the conservation and care

of library and archive collections, BS4971, sets the criteria for the storage of mixed archive collections as 35-60% relative humidity and 13-22"C temperature with an annual average of not more than 18"C.

During 2020 three of the strongrooms in the original block achieved 100% compliance with the standard for humidity with the fourth strongroom on the ground floor achieving 99.5% compliance. The ground floor strongroom exceeded the upper relative humidity limit of 60% on two days in 2020 with levels of 60.25 and 60.2% being recorded. Dehumidifiers were switched on manually as the relative humidity in each strongroom approached 58%.

Temperatures within the strongrooms are controlled in the winter months with background heating being

switched on by the Building Management System. At no point did the temperatures drop below the required 13"C in any of the storage areas. The annual average temperature criteria of not higher than 18"C was also met within all the strongrooms with the highest annual average recorded at 16.46"C.

The ground, first and second floor strongrooms all met the upper temperature limit of under 22"C 100% of the time during 2020. The third floor strongroom, at the top of the block and therefore exposed to the most solar gain, achieved compliance with the upper temperature limit 97% of the time with conditions within the strongroom exceeding 22"C on 11 days towards the end of August.

In January 2020 the Buildings Management System was upgraded to including monitoring of both the original and new strongroom blocks. The drying out of the new block took place over the course of 2020 with conditions meeting BS4971 by December of that year.

CASE STUDY PRESERVATION - DIGITISATION OF THE BAILIFF S OCCUPATION AND LIBERATION FILES

The Bailiff s Occupation and Liberation files form part of Jersey s  Occupation Collections which are inscribed on the UNESCO UK  Memory of the World programme. The files are a unique record of  the Island Authorities relationship with the German Administration.  They detail the challenges that the Bailiff faced in acting as a buffer  between the German Administration and the Island s population.  Without the information contained within these files our knowledge  and understanding of the Occupation period would be significantly  diminished.  

The collections reflect the day to day impact of the German Forces on the  local population and authorities and in a wider context show how the Channel  Islands status as part of the British Isles was of particular import to the German  High Command. The files can be used to study the stories of local people, the  relationship between a British administration and the German authorities and can  be used to compare the occupation of British soil with the occupation of countries  in continental Europe.  

In 2020 we received a grant from the Association of Jersey Charities and support  from the Bailiff s Chambers to digitise the Bailiff s Occupation and Liberation files  as part of Jersey Heritage s celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation  

of Jersey. The digitisation project has allowed us to repackage the fragile original  documents and provide access to digital copies both at the Jersey Archive and  also for the worldwide community of academics and researchers who have  

an interest in this period in Jersey s history. As part of the project 3,000 files  comprising nearly 40,000 individual pages were digitised and are now available  online.  

CATALOGUING AND INDEXING

The detailed cataloguing and indexing of individual documents is vital in providing access to the records that are transferred to Jersey Archive. When collections are transferred to the archive public institutions are required to provide basic box lists of the contents of the collection. It is only when

the collection has been catalogued and indexed in detail on our archival catalogue that full access can be granted to the documents. For example a box list might read, States of Jersey legislation, 1840 1900, the catalogue entries would list each piece of legislation and index the description by the subject of that legislation such as Petition of the members of the Jersey Medical Society on the subject of the vaccination law, 1881.

In 2020, during lockdown, we faced the challenge of cataloguing staff working at home whilst the collections they were working on were located at Jersey Archive. For security and environmental reasons we could not allow staff to take documents home and so, for a significant period of lockdown, cataloguing staff worked on collections that had already been digitised and could be catalogued using the digital copy. This included digitised copies of legislation and images from the Jersey Evening Post collection.

During lockdown staff also indexed individual records such as burial registers from the Parish of St Helier and baptism records from the Church of England

and Methodist Churches.

Once staff were able to return to the archive our cataloguing team focused on collections from the Occupation period which were prioritised in the

75th year since Liberation. These included some of Alexander Coutanche s private papers with letters from Viscount Montgomery of Alamein thanking him for his hospitality on his trips to Jersey. In 2020 we also catalogued the archive of Major Hugh Le Brocq, who was one of those who landed as part of Force 135 on Liberation Day and led the small party of men who replaced the swastika at Fort Regent with the Union Flag.

In 2020 7,977 newly catalogued records were added to the online catalogue with a further 38,200 additional indexed records also added during the year.

CASE STUDY CATALOGUING AND INDEXING - ONLINE ACCESS

Online access to the unique records we hold at Jersey Archive has been a key part of our outreach strategy since we relaunched our online catalogue with downloadable images of collections in 2015. Increased online access to key collections of documents such as wills and testaments, occupation registration cards and baptism and marriage records has been appreciated by our local audience and also by national and international audiences.

In 2020 online access to records became crucial, the Jersey Archive closed to the public during lockdown and limitations on travel meant that family historians with Jersey connections from around the world were unable to visit Jersey to carry out their research. The online catalogue gives subscribers instant access to online images of over 1 million documents. The work that staff and volunteers have put into developing the catalogue and digitising the collections became crucial in 2020 and allowed researchers to continue to engage with the archive collections throughout the lockdown period.

Use of the online catalogue doubled in 2020 when compared with 2019. Our number of subscribers increased by 25% over the course of the year. We targeted particular sections of the international community through Facebook adverts. This was particularly effective when we targeted the Australian genealogical audience after an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Australia featured an actor with a Jersey connection who visited the Island in 2019. The combination of the programme and Facebook campaign led to a 180% increase in users from Australia when compared to the same period in 2019.

 I am so pleased that my subscription for the year is now up and running and I can continue to do some research at home: it will probably be some time before travel to Jersey is possible.

In 2020 our online catalogue was an essential part of our ability to continue to engage people around the world with Jersey s heritage. However, with at least 750,000 individual records being cared for by Jersey Archive, many of these being files and volumes with hundreds of pages, it was still vital for us to provide a distance enquiry and copying services for those records that were not digitised. During 2020 we answered 3,776 individual enquiries providing family and house history research advice, copies of documents and advice for researchers whose topics ranged from tourism in the Island to shipping registers.

As well as answering enquiries from the public, staff also answered 190 enquiries from Public Institutions into the records that we hold on their behalf. These enquiries included FOI requests, requests for loans of documents, records management and conservation advice. Staff also interact on a regular basis with the local media and during 2020 we responded to 85 requests for interviews, information and use of archive documents in local reports.

As soon as restrictions allowed we operated with a skeleton staff in place at the archive, ensuring that copies of documents could still be made and provided digitally.

 I have been dealing with archives all over the world and you guys are the fastest and most helpful I have come across.

  thanks to you all at Jersey Archive for keeping things ticking over in these difficult times - brilliant!

In June 2020 the Jersey Archive reopened to the public after lockdown, with appropriate restrictions and guidance for readers and staff in place. With the closure of the archive for a quarter of the year, the reduction in family history tourists and caution within the local community, the number of people visiting the archive in person dropped from 2,713 people in 2019 to 1,245 people in 2020.

CASE STUDY ACCESS -

WHAT S YOUR STREET S OCCUPATION STORY? - TALKS AND TOURS GO ONLINE

In 2020 we celebrated 75 years since the Liberation of the Island on 9 May 1945. To mark this significant date in our communities history we decided to focus our What s Your Street s Story? programme on stories of the Occupation and Liberation. The programme looked to tell the story of the diverse experiences of Occupation by focusing on different areas of the Island, from stories of defiance and resistance at Langley Avenue to the fortification programme at Noirmont, the isolation hospital at Westmount and the German HQ at Mont Millias.

We started 2020 with two well attended talks looking at the closed records released in 2020, which included the Political Prisoner s register from HM Prison and some of the Occupation Treasures that we hold at the archive. The release of the Political Prisoner s register containing the names of 506 individual s whose crimes were defined as political and therefore can be interpreted as acts against the German Authorities, attracted National interest with articles appearing in The Sunday Express and The Guardian.

In March the Island went into lockdown and the archive team looked at the best way to move the What s Your Street s Occupation Story? programme online. By 3 April we had sourced webinar software and were ready to present our first online talk. We felt that it was vitally important to continue to connect people to their heritage during this period and also wanted to provide a sense of community and continuity for our regular visitors.

The feedback for our first talk was overwhelmingly positive and so we continued to deliver an enhanced programme of talks throughout 2020. Our original WYSOS programme was for 12 talks over the course of the year, 1 per month, however, we eventually delivered 46 online talks with 3,552 people listening either live or via the Jersey Heritage website. Our online programme had the added benefit of not only being available to a local audience but also to listeners from the UK and as far afield as the USA and Australia.

 I really have enjoyed every talk that I have listened to and I congratulate you and your staff for a fantastic effort to keep us entertained during this difficult period.

I have to say this was my first ever Webinar and it was easy to link up and I really enjoyed your talk - can t wait for more. As I said before, I live in Bedfordshire so coming for talks in person isn t really an option so webinars for me are a great way of finding out more about Jersey.

 Many thanks for your talk, much appreciated and well done! Nice to have something live to look forward to each week in these strange times.

RECORDS OPENED, JANUARY 2021

Every year public records held at Jersey Archive that are closed to the public on transfer are reviewed after periods of 30, 50, 75 and 100 years. In 2020 433 files were due to be reviewed and in January 2021 88% of these records were opened to public access. Amongst the records opened to the public after 100 years was a hospital admission register from 1920 which helps to show the treatment of epidemics in the Island 100 years ago.

The Medical Officer of Health s report for 1920 shows that there were 741 deaths in Jersey during the year, 50 more than in 1919. The report indicates that the number has been elevated by epidemics during 1920 and one of the tables included in the report shows that there was a significant outbreak of measles in the Island with 1,123 cases reported and 25 deaths.

The information shows that there was a significant outbreak at the start of the year with 484 cases being reported in January 1920, numbers of cases dropped off over the Summer but then went up again from August to the end of the year.

Tuberculosis was also a major contributor to deaths from epidemics or infectious disease with 48 individuals dying from the disease during 1920. Other diseases included typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever and influenza.

The report also gives the number of epidemics or infectious diseases treated at the General Hospital which were as follows; 2 typhoid, 53 diphtheria, 8 tuberculosis and

23 cases of measles. Scarlet fever was treated at Overdale and a number of cases of measles at the Dr Barnardo s Children s Home.

There are direct comparisons with the treatment of epidemics

in 1920 and our own experiences of 2020. The report shows that in January and February 1920 18 schools in St Helier were closed as a result of the measles epidemic and 17 parish schools closed between January and March and then August and September for the same reason.

Disinfection was also an important tool in the fight against the spread of disease with 21 schools and 185 houses being disinfected during the course of the year.

The admission register of the General Hospital gives further evidence of these epidemics showing the admissions for

measles, diphtheria, typhoid and tuberculosis. On 13 January 1920 three children of Sydney Hotton of St John were admitted to the hospital. Henry, aged 9, Alice, aged 8 and Ada aged 5 had all contracted measles. Whilst Alice and Ada were discharged from the hospital on 28 February, Henry remained until 27 May, a stay of over 4 months.

On 14 January Harold Kinnard, aged 1, was admitted to the hospital suffering from measles. On 26th January his siblings William, aged 4, Clifford, aged 3 and Raymond, aged just 2 weeks were all admitted for the same reason and not discharged until

22 April.

As well as being a place for treatment the hospital also still acted as a poor house with admissions for indigence or poverty. It was also a place for children who could not be looked after at home to be cared for, potentially whilst a parent was in hospital receiving treatment.

MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT

The Records Advisory Panel was established  under the Public Records, Jersey Law, 2002.  The Panel is required to meet at least twice  each year and part of its role is to review the  performance under the law of Jersey Heritage,  the Archivist and public institutions. The Panel  met twice in 2020 and reviewed the impact of  Covid-19 on the Jersey Archive, the completion  of the Jersey Archive extension, preservation  and conservation and closed records due to  

be opened in 2021. The Panel also received a  presentation from the Government of Jersey  Interim Records Manager in June 2020.

ARCHIVE ACCREDITATION

Jersey Archive has full Archive Accreditation at  the highest level after applying to The National  Archive scheme in 2014. In November 2020  the service reapplied for accreditation with  

the results being expected in March 2021.  

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

ARCHIVE FUNDING

Jersey Heritage receives an annual grant from the States of Jersey to run a wide range of services including the provision of an archive. The organisation also self-generates around 50% of its income through a range of activities including admissions, membership and heritage lets and venues. The self-generation element of Jersey Heritage s income is largely produced through gate receipts from our visitor attractions. This income was severely impacted by the pandemic in 2020 and the organisation made significant cuts to public programmes and received a one off grant from the States of Jersey to balance the budget in 2020.

Jersey Archive is an integral part of Jersey Heritage and the public of Jersey benefit from the overall synergies between the provision of archive, historic environment and museum services. Synergies include central support services across the organisation such as buildings maintenance, collections management, finance and human resources. As a result of these shared central costs it is difficult to give a definitive stand-alone figure which reflects the exact cost of running the Jersey Archive service. However the table below gives an indication of spend in different areas of the archive services operations.

This table does not include IT, telephones and computer support costs, insurance and rates and training costs which are all held centrally.

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