Fenland adults 18+
About Common Ground
A Fenland storytelling programme built around people, place and access.
The current 2026–27 programme is a free Digital Storytelling Lab for 16 adults with Fenland roots or a meaningful connection to the area, supported through Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants.
Funded spine
The public promise in four facts.
The wider network, Story Atlas and Open Doors can grow around these commitments without changing what participants were promised.
principal workshops
participant-led outputs
planned public showcase
How it works
The workshop is the spine. Fenland is the material.
Participants move through four workshops with individual creative support around them. Optional Open Doors experiences can add a place, archive, process, person or encounter when it genuinely helps a participant's own direction.
Participant control
Making something is not the same as agreeing to publish it.
Creative work can remain private. Filming, attribution, publication and wider distribution are separate choices. Final venues, appointments and access arrangements are only described as confirmed when they genuinely are.
Next step
Join it, explore it or help open a door.
Participants, practitioners, hosts, residents and community connectors each have a clear route in.
