Social History Curators Group

SHCG is a registered charitable incorporated organisation with an elected committee of 12 trustees and a written constitution. Any member of SHCG is eligible to stand as a trustee and elections take place at our AGM, held as part of the annual conference. All trustees work on a voluntary basis and usually undertake a particular role.

Registered Charity No. 1157994

Scottish Charity Register No. SC045254

The Social History Curators Group was formed to improve the status and provision of social history in museums and the standards of collections, research, display and interpretation.

In 2014, the group became a charitable incorporated organisation with the following charitable object:

To advance the education of the public in heritage, science and the arts advancing standards of social history curatorship by encouraging better care, management, research and development of collections and delivery of improved use, access and interpretation of museum and related collections through public-facing outputs such as events, exhibitions, participative projects for the benefit of the public.