Common Ground is building a wider support network — carefully

Common Ground was funded to help 16 adults living in Fenland District create original stories through writing, audio, photography, film and digital storytelling. That core has not changed. Around it, a wider network of people and organisations is offering practical help, creative prompts and occasional experiences.

We are deliberately changing how that network appears publicly. A positive reply, exploratory call or provisional diary hold is not the same thing as a confirmed public partnership. From now on, the website only names support that is sufficiently confirmed and appropriate to acknowledge.

What is safe to say publicly now

Cambridge Rowing Experience has provided a complimentary beginner rowing experience for a participant. Daddy Cars has offered project-managed transport support where a local journey would otherwise become a genuine barrier. Glamping With Llamas has approved acknowledgement of a complimentary one-night stay for a visiting Common Ground creative practitioner, subject to availability.

Fenland artist Nick Tearle and storyteller Marion Leeper have also given permission for their creative contributions to be used as participant prompts. A signed illustrated copy of Mythos from Stephen Fry has now become a live Common Ground fundraising auction to help participants access the opportunities opening around the programme.

What you will not see here

The public site will not publish partner negotiation detail, private contact information, individual availability, candidate conversations, access notes or internal scheduling simply to make the project look busy.

There are other promising conversations underway. They will stay in the private project workspace until there is a clear reason, and permission where needed, to make them public.

Why this matters

Common Ground asks participants to think carefully about consent, attribution and what should remain private. The project should apply the same standard to the people and organisations around it.

Public progress should be useful and trustworthy, not a live transcript of every conversation behind the scenes.