Janet McBain, Curator of the Scottish Screen Archive, won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at the Lloyds TSB BAFTA Scotland Awards for 2006. Ruth Savage, Policy and Development Officer at the National Council on Archives, said: 'We’re pleased that the great work of the archive sector is beginning to receive the wider recognition it deserves'. The Scottish Screen Archive is a unique and widely used collection of over 32,000 films and videocassettes. Scotland’s rich screen heritage includes everything from documentary, industrial and educational films to shorts, promotional and amateur footage. Archive Awareness is an ongoing campaign to reveal the treasures of the nation’s archives. To find out what is going on in your local archive visit www.archiveawareness.com or contact Elise Oliver, Archive Awareness Campaign Officer, tel: 020 8392 5237, email: elise.oliver@nationalarchives.gov.uk.

East Midlands war memorial grants totalling £8,100 have been awarded by English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation to five locations: the War Memorial Arch at Wainfleet, the Martin War Memorial, both in Lincolnshire; The Memorial Gates, Market Harborough; the Swithland War Memorial, Loughborough, and Cotgrave War Memorial. Other grants, totalling over £90,000, have been awarded across England. For more information about war memorial support groups and grants contact War Memorials Trust, 4 Lower Belgrave Street, London SW1W 0LA, tel: 020 7259 0403, email: info@warmemorials.org, web: www.warmemorials.org.

The Churches Conservation Trust continues to grow, according to its recently issued Annual Report for 2005/6, which says the Trust now has 338 churches in its care. During 2005/6, five churches were taken into care. St Giles in Imber, Wiltshire, is probably the best known because the village was taken over by the Army in 1943 and never returned to the villagers. Now the Army is aiming to provide 50 days access a year. The other churches are: St James’, Stirchley, Shropshire; St Mary’s, Redgrave cum Botesdate, Suffolk; St Martin’s, Wraithe, Lincolnshire, and St Mary’s, Shipton Sollars, Gloucestershire. The Report contains articles about churches in its care, as well as conservation, its performance against targets, a wish list and ‘the overlooked splendour of church floors’. For a copy of this impressive annual report, price £5, contact CCT, 1 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9EE, tel: 020 7213 0660, email: central@tcct.org.uk, web: www.visitchurches.org.uk.

The Trust Lords of Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales have been given an £18,000 Lottery Grant to help conserve and improve access to the remains of a local smelt mill and lime kiln. The grant will also fund information panels, a series of public lectures during 2007 and research into a pioneering 1920s hydro-electricity scheme in the village. The Trust Lords date back to the 17th century when eight trustees bought the Kettlewell Estate for village freeholders and have since managed common grazing and mineral rights. For more information contact Bill Foster, Barmaster of the Trust Lords, Cookacre, Langcliffe Garth, Kettlewell, Skipton, Yorkshire BD23 5RF, tel: 01756 761028.

Instructions on how to create a history trail have been produced by Queenspark Publishers based on a history trail around Brighton. The instructions assume that several people will be involved in managing the creation of a trail with additional volunteers collecting information and writing contributions. The whole process is packed into thirteen weeks: 4 weeks for preparations; 6 weeks collecting material and 3 weeks to finalise the trail and organise a launch event. The Brighton history trail can be seen on the web at: www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/trl.html, where the content of the trail is let down by its presentation. It would have been better to create a downloadable file with a layout suitable for printing on A4 size paper. For more information contact Queenspark Books, 49 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 2QA, tel: 01273 571710, www.queensparkbooks.org.uk.

The Fernhurst Society in Surrey celebrated the half-way stage of an ambitious Lottery project with the publication of a 152 page book entitled Voices of Fernhurst. Research and interviews for the book were carried out by a team of twenty-five local volunteers recording reminiscences of village life during the 20th century. During 2007, the Society will spend the remaining funds from its £21,000 Lottery grant on developing a website and organising an exhibition. The reminiscences have been grouped under eleven different headings, together with a introduction. For more information about the project or to obtain a copy of Voices of Fernhurst (price £6 plus £1 p&p), contact Anthony Davies, Fernhurst Society, Little Bridgelands, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3Jf, tel: 01428 656706, email: anthonyb.davies@virgin.net, web: www.fernhurstsociety.org.uk.