Feminist Archive North is run on a shoestring, but there are some costs we cannot avoid. In particular, we need money to buy preservations materials, such as acid-free archive paper, rust-free paperclips and special archive boxes. Even a small donation is an enormous help ­– £5 buys one of the archive boxes in which our newsletters and collections are stored.

There are three ways you can help us financially. As a registered charity, we are eligible for gift aided donations.

• a one-off donation
• a regular direct debit
• remembering us in your will

If you’d like to donate, please get in touch.

You don’t need any special skills to volunteer at FAN, just a desire to keep feminist history alive and accessible.

There are lots of different ways you can help. One of our biggest tasks is the preservation of new collections. Think of all the documents you’ve seen that are stapled together. Well, those staples rust in the end and degrade the paper, so they all have to be removed and replaced by rust-free paperclips. The process of preserving and cataloguing a new collection is like taking a journey through someone’s political life.

There is also work to maintain the archive as an accessible collection. For example, digitising tape cassettes and CDs needs doing before the means to play them disappears.

Or perhaps your interest lie elsewhere? Women with web and social media skills are most welcome.

If you’re interested in joining us, please contact us. We are currently only in the FAN office on Thursdays, but with more volunteers the office could be open more often.

Women’s and feminist history gets rewritten by those who were not there, or who did not support the movement, and we are written out of history time and time again. Let’s make sure it does not happen to our revolution this time.

Feminist Archive North depends on public support to survive and expand. Can you help us?

We always need money, and welcome any financial donations.
Just as important, we also need volunteers to help in preserving and caring for our collections.