The choice of arrangement was made after consultation with members of the community, and also with professional colleagues responsible for cataloguing similar collections in other record offices and archives repositories. Following consultation an arrangement consisting of four subcollections was devised in order to provide a logical structure to the collection, which attempts to recreate the original order of records creation and to restore provenance to items within the collection.

These five subcollections are as follows:

[C DJC/1] ORGANISATIONS, 1860-2021

[C DJC/2] CONGREGATIONS RECORDS, 1852-2019

[C DJC/3] PRINTED MATERIAL, 1767-2016

[C DJC/4] RESEARCH FILES, 20th-21st century

[C DJC/5] GRACE AFTER MEAL CARDS, 1950-2016