TKRD · GECP Foundation

What people know should not be lost.

Capturing and preserving experience-based knowledge held by professionals, artisans, community experts, retirees and other knowledge holders.

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TKRD

Learn.
Connect.
Grow.

Potential, put into practice.Preserving the knowledge held in experience.

What would you like
to discover?

Find your place

Who TKRD connects.

Different starting points. A shared interest in learning, contribution and practical progress.

Artisans and master practitioners

Explore ways to describe practice-based knowledge, judgement and techniques that may be difficult to capture in a conventional manual.

Experienced professionals and retirees

Reflect on lessons, decisions and working methods that could help future learners, with control over what is shared and preserved.

Communities and documentation partners

Shape consent-led knowledge capture around the knowledge holders, the intended audience and appropriate access arrangements.

From interest to action

What your pathway could look like.

Use these steps to prepare a conversation. Specific opportunities and delivery arrangements are confirmed by the programme team.

Identify the knowledge and purpose

Describe the area of practice, the people involved and why documentation may be useful.

Agree consent and boundaries

Discuss participation, recording, sensitive material, review and intended access before knowledge capture begins.

Document and return for review

Combine context with examples and explanations. Agree how contributors can review the account and how approved material will be organised.

Before you take the next step

Your questions, answered.

Start here, then use the programme enquiry form for questions about your own circumstances.

Does an enquiry transfer ownership of knowledge?

No. An initial enquiry is a conversation about possible documentation. Recording, reuse and access arrangements need explicit discussion and agreement.

Must knowledge holders write a formal document?

The programme concept includes interviews, observation and oral-history approaches. The appropriate method depends on the knowledge holder and purpose.

Purpose into practice

Explore what we’re building.

Discover the service areas and initiatives shaping TKRD. Contact us for current participation and delivery information.

Community knowledge capture

Consent-led interviews, observation and oral-history documentation.

Master practitioner documentation

Recording professional practice, techniques and career lessons.

Heritage and practice archive

Organising preserved knowledge for learning and transfer.

TKRD · Programme journal

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Perspectives, practical questions and ideas from our programme focus areas.

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Knowledge preservation · 12 Nov 2026

Put consent at the centre of knowledge documentation

Explain why documentation is proposed, who may use it and what form it may take. Knowledge holders should have space to ask questions and identify material they do not want included. An …

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Tacit knowledge · 12 Nov 2026

Ask about the judgement behind a practical skill

A skilled practitioner may make choices that are difficult to see from the outside. Ask what they notice, which signals matter and how they decide that something needs attention. These questions can …

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Ideas, experience & new perspectives

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Programme insight

Put consent at the centre of knowledge documentation

Explain why documentation is proposed, who may use it and what form it may take. Knowledge holders should have space to ask questions and identify material they do not want included. An initial conversation is not the same as permission to publish.

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