Common Ground

The Common Ground Journals are a collaboration between the Common Ground team and young people involved in the project. We want the journals to act as a tool to inspire you to develop your own ideas and activities around youth-led heritage projects and creative youth engagement more generally.

Through project case studies and youth voice, the journals look at ways to break down barriers to accessing heritage, encourage meaningful engagement and see heritage in new ways. They share young people’s thoughts on Common Ground and heritage sites around the East of England, as well as highlight their ideas around the future of young people in heritage.

Each issue’s content is curated around a theme selected by the Common Ground Leaders Programming Group. The Leaders are a community of 18 to 25 year-olds interested in arts and heritage who have been involved with guiding and designing Common Ground. The Programming Group are three Leaders who helped to plan and produce the Common Ground Symposium on the 25th November 2022.

We hope this guide informs, inspires and energises you to create your own projects with young people!