Association of Local Environmental Records Centres

The Association represents the interests of Local Records Centres in the UK, promoting standards and services in biodiversity and geodiversity data collation & service provision.

Association objectives

• To promote and encourage the completion of a UK-wide network of Local biodiversity and geodiversity Records Centres
  
• To promote and develop good standards of practice in the collation, management, dissemination and analysis of biological and geological records
  
• To promote Local Records Centres regionally, nationally and at a UK level to potential users and suppliers of data and
  
• To provide full representation of the UK with country specific solutions and equal emphasis on the individual countries requirements
• To develop and promote accreditation schemes for biodiversity and geodiversity records centres and their staff
  
• To encourage and facilitate networking between Centres to enable exchange of ideas, collaborative working, developing joint tools and sharing good practise

Formation of the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres
The Association arose within ranks of the membership of the National Federation for Biological Recording. Local Records Centres have been key members of the NFBR for some time and through a series of meetings and conferences organised by NFBR the desire to have in place a formal Association representing the interests of these Local Records Centres and their staff gradually came to fruition. The formation of the Association came about during 2006 via the efforts of a number of Local Records Centre representatives and allied trades who formed the Steering Group. The formal constitution was written in March 2007, following an extensive survey of Local Records Centres conducted during 2006 and the Association formally launched in 2008. The Association is therefore no longer just an aspiration, it is a fact.

Constitution of the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres
The Association is a Community Interest Company (Incorporation number 06951023 2nd July 2009)

Click to view ALERC's Memorandum and Articles of Association