On 11 December 2026, Age UK Lancashire is turning 85 and to commemorate both its history and the ongoing services the charity provides to older people across the county, the National Lottery Heritage Fund is supporting an oral history programme led by Dr Brandon Taylorian, who is thrilled to join Age UK Lancashire as the Heritage Project Manager.

This project celebrates the importance of storytelling through preservation, archiving and exhibition. A team of volunteers will traverse Lancashire's diverse towns and villages to interview Age UK Lancashire clients in their own homes and in community day clubs to discover what life was like 85 years ago and how life has changed since then.

The project will also see Dr Taylorian undertake historical research to understand the practices and public sentiment towards caring for old people during the Second World War and the post-war period. In collaboration with Lancashire Archives in Preston, the stories and main insights from the project will be exhibited, a film will be produced and shown to the public, a book will be published and a time capsule will be buried towards the project's conclusion in May 2027.

As part of the outputs from this project, Dr Taylorian will publish the third book in his growing series on family and local history research titled The Handbook of Oral History Methods.