Living Memories
We bring the past to life using archive films from the 1940s-70s with an award winning ongoing series of Reminicence Guides & DVDs.
They are ideal to stimulate the memories of older family members, friends and neighbours and to chat about how life has changed over the decades.
Ideal for individual, family and group use.
Free recorded delivery within the UK
Helping to reduce the loneliness of older people.
Living Memories C.I.C. is a not-for-profit charitable social enterprise which is using archive films to develop services and resources which help to reduce the isolation of older people, including those living with dementia, in the rural and urban communities in which they live across the UK.
There are many imaginative ways to use our resources to stimulate conversations between young and older people.
Our easy to use Reminiscence Guides and DVDs are being used by Memory Cafes, residential homes and other organisations, as well as by many older people who are not familiar with using the Internet.
"Watching the Living Memories archive films makes me feel young again!"
“We ran the DVD, one “episode” at a time. After the first one we used a couple of the prompt questions from the Reminiscence Guide but that was all, the group were all animated and everyone had something to contribute. We watched the next "episode" and again they were all very happy to talk about it.
It was indeed a change from our normal sessions and everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. The Reminiscence Guides and DVDs would be excellent for 1:1 as well."
About Us
Brian Norris
Founder, Executive Director, Living Memories C.I.C.
We enjoy meeting up with older people, showing them our archive films and then listening to the memories that are triggered by the images they have been watching.
It is even more interesting to bring younger people together with us older ones to watch a film and chat about how different things were in our younger years than they are today.
Archive films certainly bring the past to life!
