We create cultural stories through films, brand partnerships and shared experiences. Explore our approach and the responsibilities that come with telling someone’s story.
Echoes of Heritage began as a question, asked at a kitchen table in a Cotswold farmhouse: what becomes of the songs, the stitches, the recipes, the rituals when the last person who carries them puts them down? The work that followed, in studios from Lagos to Lima, became this house. We commission, collect, film and publish. We sit with elders and weavers and chefs and choreographers until their craft is recorded, respected and resourced. Our role is quiet on purpose. The story, always, belongs to the maker.
We do not believe in heritage as nostalgia. We believe in heritage as a living economy. Every commission is a contract between past and present: an artisan paid fairly, a tradition documented honestly, a new audience invited in with care.
Each room is its own discipline, each discipline answers to the same brief: leave the tradition stronger than we found it.
Our long table where artisans, designers and curators sit together for months at a time. Here we co-author commissions: limited editions, bespoke pieces, museum collaborations. Every object leaves with its lineage attached: the maker, the place, the technique, the lineage of hands behind it.
A growing library of field notes, oral histories, photography and research, open by appointment to scholars and journalists.
Long-form documentary commissions for broadcast and festival, made with the patience the subject deserves.
Masterclasses, residencies and apprenticeships that connect emerging makers to elders willing to teach.
Bespoke cultural journeys, hosted by the communities themselves, in groups small enough to be invited in rather than shown around.
For families, foundations and houses who wish to underwrite a tradition, name a chair, or commission a body of work.
From the Cotswolds to Kumasi, and from Lima to the Mossi plains, we work where the practice still breathes.
Carvers, weavers, drummers and griots whose hands and voices anchor every commission we accept.
Recorded slowly, in the maker's own tongue, then translated and preserved for the next generation.
Before a camera is opened or a microphone is placed, every contributor records what may be captured, how they wish to be credited, and where the material may travel. Participation is voluntary, a blank answer is treated as no, and commercial use, AI-assisted production and machine-learning training are each a separate choice.
Restrictions written by elders, custodians and communities take priority over any general permission we hold. Consent can be narrowed or withdrawn for future use at any time.
Who should complete it
Anyone being filmed, photographed, recorded or interviewed with us: contributors and elders, workshop and event participants, artists and makers, and the schools or organisations hosting them.
Taking part in the Lanré Olagoke MBE programme on 8 April 2026? Use the first button above: the event, auction, storytelling and documentary details are already filled in, so you just add your name, set your permissions and sign.
Signing does not commit you to anything being published. See how we hold your data.
Recording, archive, education, publication, commercial use and AI training are separate rows. Yes means yes to that row alone.
Sacred, ceremonial or restricted material is flagged, and community approval is evidenced before anything is used or shown.
Each contributor keeps a copy with a reference number, and can narrow, pause or withdraw permission for future use.
How it works
Tell us who you are
Your details, the project, and a guardian's details if the contributor is under 18.
Choose each permission
Answer every use separately, and note any cultural restriction we must observe.
Sign and keep a copy
Sign on screen. You receive a reference number, and we hold the record securely.
Our mission is to safeguard living cultural heritage by documenting it with the people who practise it, paying them properly for their knowledge, and opening that work to audiences, schools and institutions who will carry it forward. We measure success in traditions still practised a generation from now, not in objects collected.
Everything we make follows three commitments: consent before recording, fair and transparent payment to custodians, and an honest record of where a tradition comes from and who holds it.
Telephone
+44 7777 926155Studio
12 Old Bond Street
Mayfair, London W1S 4PW
United Kingdom
Registered
Echoes of Heritage Ltd
Company no. 16774727
England and Wales
The frame that guides every commission, event and archive we touch.
The custodians, artisans and cultural leaders we work alongside.
Fund the education, documentation and stewardship of living heritage.
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