Volunteer role to write copy for blogs and website

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The Richard Roberts Archive based in Stockport for the past ten years occupies a 7,500 square-foot warehouse in Adswood. We receive, process, catalogue and preserve a diverse collection of advertising materials and seek to make them available to visiting members of the public, students and academics. Advertising materials can be, and have been, used as resources for general study, industrial history and family history. We provide a paying service for commercial users. Our catalogued items exceed a quarter of a million, including a collection of 37,000 paper-based ads and a range of advertising ephemera such as beer mats and counter cards.

There are currently twenty-two volunteers and are delighted to report that this volunteer base is remarkably diverse. We are proud to engage with local neuro-divergent charities. As a result, our volunteers offer a wide range of skills and potential. Most volunteers are involved with cataloguing, product filing and scanning, but we have volunteers who are invaluable in, for example, maintaining and improving the fabric of the building, cleaning and setting up our photographic studio.

Any saleable surplus materials are offered for sale on our ebay shop, which provides one of our income streams.

Role

We are seeking a dedicated volunteer with some experience in helping to write copy for our blog and other social media. On a weekly basis we post a blog and would like to do more. This will involve selecting a subject for the blog (we will help here), doing some general background searching, taking some photographs of the subject and writing a few hundred words. We suggest you look at https://www.richardrobertsarchive.org.uk/stockport-advertising-archive-blog to get a sense of what we already do.

You will join an existing team of about twenty volunteers each with their own specific responsibilities, with a common goal of enabling the archive to prosper, innovate and share its wonderful resources with an ever-wider public.

Where:

SK3

Closing date for applications:

30 September 2026

Who to contact:

Craig Horner

The Richard Roberts Archive

Organisation description:

Our Archive is a collection of print advertising covering industries such as motoring, aviation, cycling, lifestyle, fashion and textiles. We hold over 100,000 items in our collection, dating from the 18th century to present day. Our aim is to preserve, and to make available for academic research, print advertising of any products, in any language, and from any period.

Organisation type:

Registered Charity

Company location:

Unit 14, Adswood Industrial Estate, Adswood Rd, Adswood, Stockport SK3 8LF , SK3 8LF

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