THE MAGIC ATTIC ARCHIVES

Registered charity 1094124 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides newspaper archives for research etc, other local archives, companies, industrial info, photographs (35000) and approx 1000 maps. We sell our own local history books (produced in house) to raise funds to operate, provide schools with local history information in classes. We provide a free entry reading room for visitors and other local groups.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE HERITAGE OF THE COALFIELD AND POTTERY AREAS IN SOUTH DERBYSHIRE, NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE AND EAST STAFFORDSHIRE AREA BY:1) TO MAINTAIN, CONSERVE AND SUPPLEMENT TO THE EXISTING HISTORICAL ARCHIVE OF DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, MAPS, NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS AND OTHER RECORDS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.2) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC TO RESEARCH ALL ASPECTS OF HISTORY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.3) TO ADVANCE THE HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY ORGANISING EXHIBITIONS, LECTURE, TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES.

Area of benefit: THE COALFIELD AND POTTERY AREAS IN SOUTH DERBYSHIRE, NORTH WEST LEISTERSHIRE AND EAST STAFFORDSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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Trustees · trustee networks

• RON CAUSERchair
• Beryl Irene Tunstall
• CLYDE DISSINGTON
• COLIN EDWARD HARVEY
• Eric Tunstall
• JACQUELINE JONES
• JANE WILLDER BSC
• Keith Foster
• MARK SCOTT ROWE
• MARTIN JOHN WROUGHTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Ann Ford
• VALERIE WOOD

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Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Staffordshire

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