Listening to the Past, Speaking to the Future

Next Steps for Action and DeliveryAction 3Investigate financial and/or tax incentives to support private institutionalarchives that are made available for public study.ManagementMembers of the Archive Forum; Dept. for Education& Skills; Business Archive Council; Business Archive Council (Scotland)Funding SourcesArchive Development Programme; Dept. for Education& Skills; Private sponsorship£20,00065Action 4Create mechanisms for rapid response to threats to collections at risk.ManagementMembers of the Archive Forum; National Council on Archives; Dept. forEducation & Skills; Business Archive Council; Business Archive Council(Scotland)Funding SourcesArchive Development Programme; Dept. for Education& Skills; private sponsorship£20,000Action 5Create environments to bring together businesses, private owners and specialistarchives to support preservation and development of such collections .ManagementMembers of the Archive Forum; National Councilon Archives; business, private and specialist archivesFunding SourcesArchive Development Programme£10,000Total Recommendation Five£300,000Recommendation SixEncourage the creation and sustainability of moving image, sound,photographic and digital archives through support for relevant strategies.Action 1Support the implementation of the UK Audiovisual Archives Strategy that hasbeen developed by the Audiovisual Archive Strategy Steering GroupManagementMembers of the Archive Forum; National Council on Archives;Film Archive Forum, Film CouncilFunding SourcesArchive Development Programme; private sponsorship£50,000