The Norfolk Record Office (NRO) ran ten educational workshops for school groups between October 2025 and March 2026, with 271 pupils taking part, according to a service update presented to the Norfolk Records Committee on 24 April 2026.

The archive also partnered with the Restoration Trust on a pilot project called Enquiring Minds, which uses archive materials to teach media literacy skills. The programme is funded by a grant secured by the Restoration Trust, and the NRO hopes to expand it further.

A separate community history project, Hall Marks — the Long Shadows of Norfolk Country Houses, officially launched in February 2026 with coverage in the Eastern Daily Press and an appearance on BBC Radio Norfolk. The project drew 70 expressions of voluntary interest, with 35 volunteers now onboarded.

Wellbeing workshops connected to Hall Marks are currently running in Gorleston, with further sessions planned for King's Lynn and Norwich. Saturday workshops in Attleborough, Dereham, and Cromer were described as well attended with positive feedback.

The NRO also took on work placements through the MINT agency at City College Norfolk, a programme designed to reduce barriers to employment for young people.

Volunteers continued to make a significant contribution to the archive's cataloguing work. Around 10,200 index records from 19th-century will registers have been added to the NRO's catalogue, alongside 7,600 records from Great Yarmouth prison registers dating from 1798 to 1875.

The volunteer repackaging group — which began as the Seal Sock Sewing Group — marked its tenth anniversary during the period.

Committee members praised the NRO for the community it had built, describing the service as an asset to Norfolk residents. However, the positive activity report came against a backdrop of financial pressure and uncertainty over the archive's future under local government reorganisation.