Capture & KeepMemories, beautifully kept
UK life-story service  ·  and a free resource

Every story is worth keeping, before it is lost.

Nobody remembers a whole life in one afternoon. Amanda knows what to ask, leaves room for the things that come back a week later, and writes it all into a life story that still sounds like them.

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From £250  ·  nothing happens until you are sure

“Nearly every person I speak to begins by telling me that there is nothing to tell. Not one of them has been right yet.”

Amanda

An older woman mid-conversation with a middle-aged woman, sitting together outdoors
A conversation, not an interview
What this actually is

A life-story service, and the same work given away.

Capture & Keep is a UK life-story service and a practical resource, run by Amanda Yaffe-Parker. She is based in Colchester in Essex and works with people and families across the UK.

Amanda can do the whole thing with you: relaxed, recorded conversations about somebody's life, written up properly into a story the family keeps. She also works from what a family already has, the recordings, photographs, letters and half-finished journals sitting in drawers.

What Amanda does

Which of these is you?

Most people come to this for one of three reasons.

For an occasion already circled

A gift, for an occasion

A landmark birthday, an anniversary, a retirement after forty years, or a grandchild who has just arrived.

See gift options Because something has changed

While there is still time

A parent growing more frail, a diagnosis that has shortened the timeline, or memory beginning to fade.

See what is possible Piecing it together from what is left

After they have gone

For the story that was not written down in time, built from letters, photographs and the people who remember them.

See how this can still work