The Birmingham Pen Trade Heritage Association is a registered charity[1], located in the independent museum known as The Pen Room in Birmingham, England. The charity is based within the museum, and the museum is run entirely by volunteers. The charity began in 1996 as an informal gathering of people with an interest in pen history within Birmingham, and became a registered charity in 1997.[2]
Most of the volunteers at the Pen Room are also members of the Birmingham Pen Trade Heritage Association, but not all of them. The charity’s members also include those who have visited or regularly visit the museum, those with an interest in history, pen collectors and those who you used to work in the trade.[3]
It costs ten pounds to join the charity as a paid member, something that is part of the museum’s form of upkeep as its running is based entirely on donations. The secretary of the Association is Brian Jones.