Kent and Medway Biological Records Centre

History

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The KMBRC is a young Records Centre, set up as a company limited by guarantee in May 2003. An initial set-up phase followed, with the purchasing of equipment and the recruitment of staff. Records began to be entered onto the Recorder 2002 database in October 2003.

Since this time the Records Centre team has grown from 3 initial staff members to a team 8 strong at its peak, with some of those staff members working on temporary projects, often off site.

The KMBRC launched itself officially in June 2005, where it announced it was now fully operational and able to receive information requests from clients, having a healthy and growing database of records. In the summer of 2005 another milestone was met when the Records Centre became a charity.

In the summer of 2006 the KMBRC entered a 3rd phase of its life, with the initial funding from the EU and Heritage Lottery Fund the BRC downsized to four core staff members.
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