By exploring past experiences, On the Record helps reimagine what’s possible in the present and future. Our projects unite people from different generations and walks of life; working together, we learn from each other, connecting ‘what has happened’ with ‘what could be’.
We’re a not-for-profit organisation guided by co-operative principles, co-founded by Rosa Schling and Laura Mitchison in 2012. Together with hundreds of people, we’ve co-produced numerous innovative projects capturing the capital’s untold stories.
If you like what we do and you’d like to help secure our future, please consider supporting our work.
Become a Friend of On the Record
By giving us a one-off donation, or by donating £5+ a month as a Friend of On the Record, your generosity could help us become financially self-sufficient and sustainable. We would be able to continue:
- offering support to community groups who wish to record their stories;
- organising new events around our films (Fighting Sus, Hospital in the Mind, The Texture of Air) and other productions.
- providing free opportunities for people from underrepresented backgrounds to engage with creative heritage and gain skills;
- giving free advice to community groups;
- maintaining and preserving a decade’s worth of our work, by assuring the continuity of our online archives and appropriate storage of our audio recordings, books, exhibitions and artworks;
- sharing our insights and the lived experiences of our oral history narrators with health, care and public policy professionals to help shape current and future healthcare and public services.
