FRIENDS
We invite you to join the Friends of Scole Archive Community
We'll send you progress updates via your Friends of Scole Archive Newsletter.
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If you are able to progress from being in the Friends community to also joining the Patrons of Scole Archive community, we would very much appreciate you visiting the Support page to view the options available to Support Scole Archive with any amount from £3 to £10,000+.
Can You Help Us Preserve The Scole Archive?
Read on to learn more about our Scole journey and assess whether you may be able to help us to preserve, digitise, and freely share the data from all 464 sessions by becoming a Patron of Scole Archive.
Dealing With A Tenfold Expansion Since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, our role as archivists shifted dramatically.
We received a ten-fold increase in the materials requiring preservation, including 406 of the original 464 two-hour session audio recordings (we are currently trying to track down the remaining tapes).
Archiving this massive influx of priceless historical data for posterity—including the monumental task of digitising, cleaning, and transcribing these sessions—suddenly required a completely new level of infrastructure and resources.
Uncovering the Missing 90% of Data
Many people following the Scole Experiment are surprised to learn that almost everything publicly known about it is based on just 37 of the 464 sessions—specifically those attended and reported on by scientific members of the Society for Psychical Research and their colleagues.
The expanded archive is already yielding exciting new data about those 37 sessions, but more importantly, it is unlocking the remaining 90% of the sessions that have remained largely unseen by the wider world.
New UAP/UFO and Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) Data
A crucial element of this unseen data involves UAP/UFO and non-human intelligence (NHI) communicators.
These entities began making regular contact—or at least formally identified themselves—in October 1997, roughly four years into the Scole sessions.
We look forward to sharing these and other new discoveries with Friends and Patrons of Scole Archive––and the wider Scole community––as we uncover them.
Supporting the Archive Preservation Task Today
Following the huge expansion of the Scole Archive in the mid 2020s, our mission to preserve and share this priceless historical data now requires significant support.
To manage this undertaking, we have had to invest heavily in modern computer hardware, AI software subscriptions, digital data hosting, videography equipment, and physical archival storage.
Furthermore, the day-to-day work of archiving, cross-referencing, and public sharing—via Scole TV and our online platforms—requires funding to sustain the thousands of hours required to process the data.
The Task Ahead––Uploading The Archive
Our goal is to make the entire archive publicly accessible in three formats:
- Introductory: Short-form content to encourage engagement from those new to Scole.
- Guided: Explanatory deep-dives based on our decades of knowledge and experience.
- Raw: Unedited archival data for independent researchers to interpret for themselves.
Securing Scole Archive for Future Generations
Scole was one of the most important experiments in history.
The archiving work must continue after us. The Scole Archive will also need ongoing, regular, funding for future maintenance and growth when we hand it over to the next generation of archivists.
Please help us to ensure we can pass on the archive with sufficient funds to support it long term.
How to Support the Archive Financially
If you are able to become a Patron and help fund the Scole archival effort, you can support us through:
Wear & Share Scole 'Conversation Starter' Archive Items
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Support via Ko-fi Buy us a coffee––or a few coffees––for £3 each...
Support via PayPal Donation
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Non-Financial Support and Volunteering
We are exploring ways to collaborate with Friends of Scole Archive who possess specific technical skills.
At some point we will need assistance with the audio cleaning of the original analogue magnetic cassette session tapes so all speakers can be heard distinctly. Similarly, we will need assistance with the optimisation of the digital files. While we are researching professional audio restoration services—which we hope to utilise if our current fundraising is successful—we also welcome making connections with Friends who have high-level audio engineering experience.
In the future, as the archive infrastructure becomes more established, we will also be seeking volunteer transcribers. Currently, Jane (who has by far the best linguistic ear of the two of us) is committing many hours per week to this task. Depending on the audio quality, transcribing a single 90-minute tape (2 x 45-minute sides) can require an investment of 30 to 50 hours of meticulous listening and typing.
While we have tested various AI audio-transcription solutions, they simply aren't up to the task. Unless a tape recording is absolutely pristine, current AI struggles to distinguish speaker voices from the complex background phenomena and tape artefacts, such as hiss and hum. Because of this, dedicated human transcription remains the only way to ensure total accuracy.
If, as a Friend of Scole Archive, you have the time, patience, and skills to contribute to this historical transcription effort, please stay tuned. We will let the Scole community know via the newsletter as soon as we are ready to coordinate a volunteer transcription team.