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People + partners

Participants make the work. Other people help make the conditions possible.

Common Ground is led by Tawanda Mukoko through Mukoko.Studio. Creative practitioners, hosts and community connectors join around the programme when there is a clear role for them.

Tawanda Mukoko, founder and project lead of Common Ground

Founder & project lead

Tawanda Mukoko

Founder · Project Lead · Creative Producer · Digital Experience Lead

Tawanda created Common Ground as a meeting point between people, place, storytelling and technology. He holds the programme direction, participant journey, partnerships, digital experience and production together while keeping authorship with the people taking part.

Programme directionPartner developmentParticipant journeyDigital delivery

Three useful roles

Bring craft. Open access. Help somebody find us.

Practitioners can share creative expertise. Hosts can open a useful place, archive, process or conversation. Community connectors can help the right Fenland residents discover the programme. None of those routes require a public partnership announcement.

Practitioners
Bring creative craft

Share a focused skill or way of working without taking authorship away from participants.

Hosts
Open useful access

Offer a place, archive, process, object, conversation or encounter that could spark a participant-led response.

Connectors
Help somebody find us

Refer a Fenland adult or share the programme through a trusted local route.

Work with us

Have something genuinely useful to offer?

Tell us what you can contribute and why it could be useful to participants. We keep developing conversations private until there is a clear reason to publish them.

Current funded programme

Public funding supports the 2026–27 participant programme.

The current 16-person Digital Storytelling Lab is supported through Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants. Common Ground is the wider place-based storytelling platform around that funded spine.

Lottery Funded. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.