When we opened our bricks-and-mortar stationery shop in 2023, we found that a theme began to emerge: there is a general, human longing for a simpler time. For a time when people wrote letters, lived more slowly, and had more time and space for consideration. So many people who walk through our doors express a quiet sadness about the fact that ‘no one writes letters anymore’.

With so much talk in recent years of how dependent we have all become on technology, it occurred to us that letters may well pose the perfect antidote. In a busy, tiring world full of screens, writing a letter can take you right back to basics and remind you of what is really important.

We know how hard it can be to find time for things like this, so we thought that a collective, weekly movement would be a powerful way to create a letter-writing ritual. The concept is simple: you sign a free pledge on our website and commit to writing one letter a week, on a Sunday.

The Sunday Letter Project is a weekly invitation to balance. To recalibrate, reconnect, and return home. We believe that letter-writing is the perfect antidote to this generation’s dependence on technology – it allows you to slip back into a time where the world felt less frantic and more spacious.

By signing up for the project, you will be invited to take a pledge: a pledge to take a pocket of time each Sunday and dedicate it to yourself and your loved ones. To write, to ponder, to savour. To regenerate a practice that has connected humans for generations and is starting to be lost. We believe letter writing is a unique way that we can find our way home as humans, and we invite you to join us.

We hope that you will be able to keep your promise to yourself, and fall in love with the ritual of letter writing. Choosing an ink, adding in stickers or photographs, picking out an envelope. The way that handwriting holds emotion and feeling within its distinctive lines. The way it freezes time and provides a portal into a moment that can never otherwise be revisited. The enormous, unique feeling of delight when you spot an envelope on your doormat with scrawled ink and know that someone has set aside that time, thought, and energy just for you.

A letter is the exact opposite of how we usually communicate now. In a world of text and email, people expect communication to be instant, casual, and constant. I think so many of us are tired of this way of being and are ready to step back into a gentle rhythm of meaningful, thoughtful correspondence. If that is you, please accept our invitation, and begin to write your way home.

As of 26th October 2025, we have 803 people signed up to the project. One small promise multiplies quickly. A single Sunday letter becomes 52 in a year. A hundred of us make 5,200. A thousand of us could create half a million handwritten letters within a decade. Together, these small acts of connection can add up to something much bigger – a library of real human voices and emotion, preserved in handwriting for years to come.