The 2024 Alice Lock Memorial Volunteer Award (Under 25 Category)
Winner: Jegan Jatta, Nottinghamshire Archives
Jegan volunteered whilst studying at university in a project aiming to create activities for 18-25 year olds in the form of escape room activities using historical documents, followed by murder mystery events which he took part in delivering. Staff acknowledged his dedication to participate whilst balancing work and study commitments.
General information about Nottinghamshire Libraries and Archives can be found at:
www.inspireculture.org.uk/heritage
The 2024 Alice Lock Memorial Volunteer Award (Over 25 Category)
Winner: Peter Slater, Leeds Libraries
Peter volunteered to assist in research on a British Library/ Leeds Libraries project to record local football fanzines. However, his enthusiasm didn’t stop there and he has now completed a survey of national significance, covering all UK fanzines which has already been useful to researchers.
To find out more about the project please visit:
An award ceremony for the winners will take place on-line in October. Thank you to all those who nominated volunteers.
The deadline for the 2025 award is the end of January 2026 for those actively volunteering during 2025.
visit our nominations page: Local Studies Volunteer Award – CILIP Local Studies Group
If you wish us to consider previous nominees please contact us.
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