Our Story

 

It all started when…

Deborah and Caroline, two old friends from opposite ends of London, talked about missing the freewheeling days of world travel that had played a big part of their youth.

In sharing their own stories - a unique cocktail of Jewish, Hindu and Catholic backgrounds (with Italian and Indian thrown into the mix) - they realised they didn’t know very much about each others culture, food or traditions.

As they shared more about their own cultural backgrounds, they realised there were other cultures in London to explore too - right there on their doorsteps.

Together they started to plan visits to neighbourhoods they hadn’t visited before, ticking off different places of worship, and tongue-tingling new food experiences.

When they began enthusiastically recounting their tales to friends and family, the idea of SharedCity was born.

It was initially a project to design group experiences to get Londoners to ‘to travel the world without leaving London’: to have fun and to learn more about their neighbours’ religions, culture and food. What was the point of living in such a wonderful diverse city if we didn’t make the most of it?

 

Scroll forward ten years…

SharedCity is now a community interest company and has grown to include three additional female directors: Chrstine, Irina and Rachel.

We are all forging our own path, working together and separately on our own individual projects. Find out more about each of us by clicking our team page here.

Between us we continue to celebrate community and heritage by telling and sharing our stories in whatever way works.

We offer:

All our work is project-based and we try to choose the most fun exciting and intriguing directions whether we are working with funders, community groups, education establishments, public or private sector organisations.

For more about our recent projects click here.

We want to better understand the history of our communities, decolonise narratives and make heritage accessible and fascinating for all.

More than anything, we love to connect so feel free to drop us a line to talk about ideas, collaborations and dreams.

Thanks for stopping by to hear our story.