Institutional & community partnership

Build this
with us

Still Here is a fully developed project seeking partners across culture, education, health, technology, and archive. We know what we need. We know what we offer. Here is both.

Partnership models

Three ways to be part of this

Still Here needs three kinds of partner. Each has a different relationship with the project, a different ask, and a different return. We are in active conversation across all three tracks.

01
Cultural & funding partners
Fund it.
Hold it. Endorse it.
Funders, cultural institutions, and national bodies who provide the financial and institutional foundation for the project. Grant funding for the pilot, archive partnership for the recordings, and the credibility that comes from public institutional endorsement.
Creative Scotland · National Library of Scotland · National Records of Scotland · Angus Council
02
Community & delivery partners
Deliver it.
Reach families.
Schools, care homes, hospices, libraries, and community organisations who bring Still Here to the people it is designed to serve. You have the relationships and the trust. We have the question packs, the training, and the vault.
Angus schools · Kirriemuir Library · Angus Alive · Angus HSCP · Scottish hospices
03
Technology partners
Build it.
Keep it running.
A technology partner who builds and operates the vault platform — secure long-term storage, time-lock access control, beneficiary management, and institutional archive transfer. Revenue share model. 10-year minimum commitment.
Preservica · Ark Group · NLS digital infrastructure · Scottish tech companies with social purpose credentials

What Still Here brings

What exists,
right now.

Still Here is not a concept in search of a product. It is a fully developed project, ready to pilot. Here is what exists before a single partner conversation has concluded.

  • Complete content productThree question pack editions, companion guide, consent framework, and pricing structure — all designed, written, and ready.
  • Vault platform specificationFull product spec for the time-locked digital archive — user journey, technical requirements, security standards, and commercial partnership terms.
  • Institutional pitch materialsBriefing notes for cultural funders, education partners, palliative care commissioners, and technology partners — each in the appropriate register.
  • Still Here Day conceptBurns Night 2026 as the founding annual event. Kirriemuir as the founding community. A national moment that can scale from 20 families to 20,000.
  • Community rootsBased in Kirriemuir, Angus. Real relationships, real community, real urgency. Not a startup looking for a location — a project that grew from a specific place and a specific need.

What partners receive

What you get
in return.

  • Co-development creditFounding partners are named permanently in the archive and on the platform. In 100 years, your organisation's name is on the document that captured Scotland's voices.
  • Research accessThe Still Here archive will become one of the most significant qualitative datasets in Scotland. Partners have early access to research collaboration opportunities.
  • Strategic alignmentStill Here maps directly onto existing strategic commitments — NLS's stated priority to address silences in collections, Creative Scotland's community engagement mandate, Scottish Government's palliative care framework.
  • First-mover positionThis archive doesn't exist yet. The organisations that help build it from the beginning hold a different relationship to it than those who join later. Founding is different from participating.

Current conversations

Who we're talking to
and why

Still Here is in early conversation with the following organisations. Each has been approached because of a specific, documented alignment between their existing commitments and what Still Here is building.

Cultural funder
Creative Scotland
Scotland's national arts and culture funding body. Still Here sits within Creative Scotland's community and engagement remit and aligns with their investment in place-based cultural projects in Angus and beyond.
Ask: Seed funding for the Kirriemuir pilot — question pack production, community engagement, and Still Here Day 2026.
Archive partner
National Library of Scotland
NLS has publicly committed to addressing "the silences in the collections" and to collecting material from underrepresented communities. Still Here fills that gap precisely. NLS leads Scotland's Sounds — the national oral history network.
Ask: Founding archive partnership — permanent holding of pilot recordings as the beginning of a new community testimony collection.
Research partner
University of Dundee — CAIS
The Centre for Archive and Information Studies at Dundee has run five international conferences on Memory and Identity, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Their research network is the most precisely aligned academic unit in Scotland for what Still Here is doing.
Ask: Research partnership — doctoral or postdoctoral collaboration on the methodology and a formal evaluation of the pilot.
Health partner
Angus Health & Social Care Partnership
The palliative care strand of Still Here aligns with the Scottish Government's Strategic Framework for Action on Palliative and End of Life Care. Angus HSCP is the local delivery body for community palliative care services.
Ask: Clinical endorsement and referral pathway for the Legacy Edition — connecting Still Here with families in palliative care settings.

Briefing documents

Read before
you call.

Each briefing document is written for a specific audience. Download the one that fits your organisation. All documents are available in full on request.

Cultural funders
Still Here One-Pager
The project overview for Creative Scotland and cultural funding conversations. Community pilot, Angus roots, the case for now.
Archive institutions
Phase 2 Capability Note
The AI-augmented archive layer — Facebook integration, the Silence Map, and the research dataset that will emerge over decades.
Education partners
School One-Pager
The education strand. One class, one term, one school. What it asks of teachers and what it produces for the community.
Health & palliative care
Palliative Care Briefing
The clinical context, the evidence base, and the Legacy Edition question pack. Written for HSCPs, hospices, and palliative care commissioners.
Technology partners
Vault Product Specification
Full technical spec for the vault platform. User journey, infrastructure requirements, security standards, and commercial partnership terms.
All partners
Still Here Day Concept
Burns Night 2026. The founding annual event. What it is, how it works, and what a national Still Here Day looks like at scale.

Get in touch

The conversation
starts here.

We're not looking for formal proposals or lengthy procurement processes. We're looking for a 30-minute conversation with the right person at the right organisation. If that's you — write to us.

Based in Kirriemuir, Angus. Happy to travel to Edinburgh, Dundee, or Glasgow for the right conversation.