The Story of Our Lives is a community project which will bring together older people who want to share their stories, lessons and memories, with a group of voluntary writers who are keen to listen, learn and record what they hear.

Once a week for a month, local people who may not otherwise have met, will come together over a cuppa , have an enjoyable chat about a key theme and then together, work towards creating an anthology of tales that preserves and celebrates the memories shared that day.

There has been so much support already for this project in terms of time and energy given. Here are a few examples (there are many more): Chorlton Good Neighbours have kindly partnered in the organisation of this; Chorlton Arts are also helping to promote and support the work and Topping Publishing have offered to help edit, illustrate and get it ready to send off to the printers. Most vital of all, story tellers and writers are giving their time for free to create the content. It's a thoroughly inspiring project to help co-ordinate. *

HOWEVER, one thing that doesn't seem to happen for free is printing! We want to print enough copies of this book so that all the participants can get one to keep as a memento of their contribution and that costs.... money!

By donating even £2 to this cause, you will help create something of lasting importance to our community. If you donate £5 or over, you can receive your own copy of the finished book as a thank you. (You will need to include your email in the comments section as you donate for me to be able to arrange this).

*If you want to get involved in the writing or story telling parts of this project, or support in any other way, contact me on jolenesheehan@live.com