On the Record

12/03/2026

Our heritage project, Memories Kitchen, successfully accomplished and delivered by Tania Aubeelack 💜🙌🏾☺️

Photos from our community feast in Tooting, Wandsworth - ♥️

The young people, Story Catchers, were incredible on this project.

Thank you to Laura for co-designing the concept of this project: creating a feast and menu booklet inspired by food memories recorded from our communities 🙏🏾

Tania loved delivering training, finding interviewees, writing content for the menu booklet and archiving all the interviews we did at Wandsworth archives, Battersea Library ❤️

Defo one of our highlights so far for 2026 🏆‼️💯🫡

Well done, On the Record and its partners, , and The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

11/03/2026

28/12/2025

📣 Memories Kitchen x Story Catchers 💚🎖✨️

Young people wrapped up 2025 successfully 🎊

We can wait for them to create their menu booklet and community feast in March 2026 🙌🏾

They finishied their oral history recordings having interviewed elders in various communities about their food memories and their childhood recollection of its meaning, human value and power in our society ❤️

The content of their recordings are rich, insightful and super interesting ✨️

Well done, Story Catchers!

02/12/2025

🎙Oral History training sessions delivered to young people aged 18 to 25. They are known as Story Catchers!

☀️ Workshop 2 focused on what is oral history: what makes it a guided practice and discipline + looking at its connections to oral traditions, its benefits and limitations.

✍️ Creativity, group discussions, reflections and key learning were at the core of workshop 2.

❤️ Young people thought about introducing their heritage project to elders and began thinking about their questions to carry out their interviews.

Great work to everyone involved & thank you to our partners and funders , & 🙏🏾

19/11/2025

💚 We prepared and delivered training to young people aged between 18-25 on the significance of creative reminiscence in oral history.

📣 Young people are known as Story Catchers, a youth project run by as part of The London Borough of Culture and with .

☀️ They are all working on an heritage project entitled Memories Kitchen 🎙

🙌🏾 We've combined creativity, youth work, reflections, archival photographs & historical content and materials to inspire the craft of our training sessions ☀️💪🏾💯❤️✨️

We can't wait to see what Story Catchers record in their communities 🎙✨️

13/11/2025

Our Memories Kitchen Collective Spoken Word created by young people!

On the Record's Tania Aubeelack - .aubee - is working with a group of young people known as Story Catchers on a heritage and oral history project entitled Memories Kitchen.

We carried out our first workshop on creative reminiscence and its importance in recollecting stories, building trustful connections, and getting conversations going within the community.

Story Catchers created their own spoken word with everyone's input and reflection. They were creative and suggested amazing lyrics to build it up.

The process involved interpreting photographs from a birthday celebration full of music, food, traditions, and culture using a free-writing exercise.

Thank you to our key partners: Enable and the London Borough of Culture 2025 – Wandsworth .

28/10/2025

📣 Apply to become a Story Catcher in Wandsworth! 💪🏾

It is a paid opportunity and starts in November 2025.

💪🏾 You'll be trained in oral history to collect stories and memories from elders in your community.

🥘 A community feast and menu booklet will be created as a result of your oral histories.

🗝 Your recordings will be preserve at Wansworth Archives.

⚠️ Deadline to apply: Friday 31st October 2025

✍️ Application form available online on:
Welcome to Wandsworth Story Catchers website

Get involved to grow, create, explore and investigate!

Thank you to our partners, , , ♥️✨️