Community · 28 August 2026
Community networks are helping Common Ground reach people beyond arts audiences
Local and regional organisations are sharing the participant call through community, lived-experience and disability networks so the opportunity can reach adults who may not usually see an arts recruitment post.
A recruitment campaign can look busy online while still missing the people a project was designed for. Common Ground needs to reach adults who may not follow arts organisations, may not call themselves creative, or may only hear about an opportunity because somebody they already trust shares it.
That is starting to happen. The National Autistic Society's Cambridge Branch has shared Common Ground in its Facebook group. SUN Network has offered to share the participant call through its social channels. Chatteris Museum has circulated the opportunity to volunteers, while March Library has received the project poster for display and is actively discussing how it may work with the programme.
Reach matters more than impressions
The aim is not to collect logos. It is to build routes into the project from different parts of community life: libraries, museums, lived-experience networks, disability communities and ordinary local word of mouth.
Thank you to everyone who has forwarded, displayed, posted or personally mentioned Common Ground. A single trusted share may be what helps the right participant decide to raise their hand.
Common Ground
Sixteen Fenland adults. Real stories. New doors opening.
The funded programme supports adults living in Fenland District to make original work through writing, audio, photography, film and digital storytelling.
