Your Stories

Your Stories - A gift for the future

The Preserving Local History and Educational Trust wishes to preserve the stories that have helped to shape our communities and our nation, and to make these accessible to all.

The goal of our project is to digitise, and make available, all historic newspapers (from 1840 to 2000) that are at risk of loss or decay. This will ensure that the stories and histories from diverse communities right across urban and rural NZ are preserved for current and future generations.

Our community papers are a gift from the past and with the technology and skills we have on hand today, there is an opportunity to make a very meaningful, hard-working, one-off, intergenerational gift that will transform the lives of millions of people now, and for the next century and beyond.

We invite you to join us in enabling this project to be achieved.

Together, we can make a gift for the future.

Let's see this project come to life.

Your donation will assist the project by:

- Increasing access to NZ's history

- Ensuring the memory of local communities is preserved, and their place in our national

identity is given context.

- Enriching and raising awareness of our national identify

- Increasing the arts, culture and heritage sector sustainability and resilience.

As like minded people with a shared interest in providing for the future, we will share regular progress updates and news about the project with you.