LOCAL COMMUNITIES & FAITH GROUPS

Preserve history, share your stories and strengthen your community

YourArchive helps local communities, faith groups and grassroots projects, collect their stories, protect their history and engage people across generations. Whether you're managing a community archive, preserving parish records or bringing people together through shared history, YourArchive provides the tools to digitise your collections, capture personal stories, and make your community’s story accessible to all.

Collect

Gather photos, documents, stories and personal memories, that tell the story of your community or faith group.

Preserve

Protect your archives, celebrate shared milestones and ensure your community’s history is safeguarded for future generations.

Inspire

Share stories, showcase your history and bring people together around the experiences that define your community.

The All-in-One Platform for Local Communities

  • Protect and Manage Your Community Archives

    Protect and Manage Your Community Archives

    Securely store photos, videos, audio, documents, records and personal stories, in one accessible, searchable platform.

  • Capture Stories That Reflect Your Community

    Capture Stories That Reflect Your Community

    Collect personal memories, milestones and reflections, from residents, congregation members or project contributors.

  • Create Interactive, Engaging Experiences

    Create Interactive, Engaging Experiences

    Bring your community’s story to life with immersive virtual tours, face-tagging, commentary and storytelling tools.

  • Support Fundraising and Inspire Community Giving

    Support Fundraising and Inspire Community Giving

    Use personalised campaigns and authentic storytelling to drive fundraising, grow support and celebrate your community’s impact.

  • Support Your Funding Journey and Demonstrate Your Impact

    Support Your Funding Journey and Demonstrate Your Impact

    Our team is on hand to support you throughout your funding application if needed, and YourArchive provides real, measurable results to demonstrate the impact of your project, once active.

  • A Secure, Branded Portal for Your Community

    A Secure, Branded Portal for Your Community

    Offer a trusted, easy-to-access space where your community can explore history, contribute stories and stay connected.

Why Choose YourArchive?

Trusted by local communities, faith groups and grassroots projects.

YourArchive gives you:

✔ Secure, scalable storage for community archives
✔ Metadata tools to organise and search your collections
✔ Public, private, or member-only access options
✔ Built-in CRM system to manage and communicate with, contacts, contributors and supporters
✔ Tools to collect stories, memories and oral histories
✔ Interactive features to engage your community
✔ Analytics and reporting to track engagement and archive growth

Book a demo here, or alternatively send us a message using the form and a member of our team will be in touch.

Key Features of the YourArchive Platform

Content Management

  • Secure, scalable cloud storage for digital collections

  • Supports multiple file types: images, documents, video, audio

  • Bulk upload with automatic folder structure replication

Content Discovery

  • Advanced search by people, places, keywords, and dates

  • Facial recognition across your archive for fast identification

  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Handwritten Text Recognition and audio transcription

Storytelling & Publication Tools

  • Quickly create digital exhibitions, albums or galleries in a few clicks

  • Unique URLs for every published collection or story

  • Public, private or hybrid publication options, with scheduling for gallery launches or time-limited exhibitions

Engagement Tools

  • Built-in CRM system for managing members, supporters and contributors

  • Integrated email tools for direct outreach and engagement tracking

  • Social media integration for direct sharing of archival content and stories

  • Support for user-generated content uploads

Interactive Features

  • Virtual tours linked to archival collections and key locations

  • Face-tagging, commentary, interactive galleries and personalised “That’s Me” experiences

  • Built-in video and audio capture tools to record and share memories and testimonials directly into your archive

Analytics & Reporting

  • Detailed interaction metrics for individual galleries and content

  • User-level engagement tracking and reporting

  • Customisable reports to support funding bids and demonstrate impact

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