Parklife Ipswich was started by Wendy Hodgson as a “non-commercial, citizen-led project”.
She has teamed up with Sarah Tieck, who creates and shares community films on social media under This is Ipswich.
Ms Hodgson said: “There are certain benches that we’ve looked up, and you find out how that person died, but we were really interested in that person’s life and how they’ve lived.
“We just thought it’d be really great if people can sit on a bench and connect with that life, and understand what the park’s significance was to them.”
Ms Tieck added: “We’ve given people the option if you feel comfortable of being on camera or we can record your voice or we can read out the story for you.
“Then we are capturing images and videos of their loved ones throughout favourite parts of their life and then creating a three-minute video which then goes on social media.”
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