A £900 GRANT to Calstock Parish Community Archive will help purchase much needed furniture for its new premises in the Tamar Valley Centre.
The money, from the Cornwall Community Foundation, will buy three new filing cabinets, two desks, two chairs and two sets of drawers.
The new building at Drakewalls will also house the headquarters of the Tamar Valley AONB and Calstock parish council offices.
Archive Trust chairperson, Lynda Harman, said the move would mean the archive being open to visitors on four days a week instead of its current three:
'We are very grateful to the Cornwall Community Foundation for this money, which will mean we have enough furniture for the new room,' she said.
'We have a significant number of visitors each year, many from other parts of the country or overseas, particularly America and Australia – anywhere that the Cornish miners from this area went to find work.
'We are hoping that the move to Drakewalls will attract local interest, and enable us to find more volunteers to support our work.'
Calstock parish archive trust holds a large amount of maps, photographs, original documents and family history records relating to the seven villages that make up the parish.
The material has been collected over a number of years, starting with the work of the Tamar Valley Project in the 1980s.
The Trust is completely dependent on the work of volunteers to undertake cataloguing and to open the archive for visitors.
Cornwall Community Foundation awards small grants to a significant number of charities and grassroots organisations in the county, and money donated to the foundation is guaranteed to be spent in Cornwall. In 2007 in excess of £650,000 was given to 250 organisations.