Policies & Strategies

Our mission

British postal services helped to shape the modern world. The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) works to make this human story of communication, industry, and innovation accessible to everyone.

Our key strategic aims

The BPMA is moving forward based on these four key aims:

To increase access to the BPMA collections by all possible groups and individuals, by recognising that all we do is directed towards fulfilling this aim
To sustain our work to increase access by developing strong and lasting partnerships, and generating funding from all available sources
To preserve, conserve, and manage our collections to support increasing access now, and to sustain this into the future
To ensure the organisational capability to increase and sustain access, by developing our staff to improve the organisation

Business Plan, 2006-2010

Our current business plan explains what we are doing until 2010 to meet the four key aims. There are twelve strands to the business plan. Milestones in these areas will be publicised in the News section (you can subscribe for Email Updates).

The Future Development page focuses on strand 4: a new centre.

Access
1.      Access & Learning programmes
2.      Website development
3.      Festival of Stamps 2010

Sustainability
4.      Developing a new centre for the BPMA to 2010
5.      Developing access to the BPMA museum collection to 2010
6.      Fundraising
7.      Working with Royal Mail Group Limited/renegotiation
8.      Records Management
9.      Business Development

Organisational Capability
10. Cataloguing
11. Developing staff resources

Preservation
12. Collections Management