Archives budget cut proposal 2025 reduces search room days by 25%
Bristol City Council’s budget proposals for 2025/6 include reducing the Bristol Archives public search room opening from four days a week to three. To read the Friends’ press release issued in response to that proposal click on the following link: Cuts to Bristol Archives
To read online coverage of our media release, click on the following links:
https://www.bristolworld.com/community/cuts-to-bristol-archives-service-will-damage-the-city-says-charity-4987643
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/cutting-bristol-archive-would-a-9943884
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cutting-bristol-archive-false-economy-120100240.html
https://www.loopsouthwest.co.uk/home/2025/cuts-to-bristol-archives-will-damage-the-city-says-charity
The initial draft budget proposals, later withdrawn from the proposals taken to Full Council and deferred for a year, included closure with immediate effect of the three Historic Houses: Blaise Castle House Museum, The Georgian House, and the Red Lodge. It was proposed that the closure would be short term, and be followed by discussions as to how and in what form they could be reopened as community assets. It seems likely that the decision to defer the proposals for a year was influenced by an online petition with over 3,000 signatories.
Earlier:
Museums & Archives budget cuts 2023
In early 2022 the Council proposed significant budget-related cuts for the Museums & Archives Service. To read the Friends' response click on the following link: Budget cut media release - 9 Feb 22
To read online coverage of our media release, click on the following links:
BBC Bristol News
Bristol 24/7
Bristol Post
Loop South West