The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) holds the designated collections & archives of the folk arts providing a historical record of songs, dances & customs practiced over the past 400 years & invaluable source material for artists & researchers of today. However, most collections are donated, & our current resources greatly limit the speed with which we can make them publicly available, creating a backlog of historically important collections that the public cannot view.

With extra income we will be able to employ additional cataloguers to make these valuable collections available to the general public. We have identified 3-4 collections in our possession which if catalogued would fill gaps in the VWML materials publicly available. These collections span over 150 years of folk song, dance and customs and until they are catalogued they remain inaccessible to everyone.