Moorfields Eye Hospital’s purpose is “to work together to discover, develop and deliver the very best eye care”. It’s in that spirit of working together that we’re embarking on our latest project with them, to involve both staff and patients in the development of their future strategy. Moorfields are keen…

Update 21st April 2021: There’s huge energy around this right now, with thousands of people joining Supporters’ Trusts, campaigns springing up all over the place, and politicians falling over themselves to promise action. We thought it might be useful to see if it can help bring the ideas together using…

If you’ve been following our posts, you might know that over the last 6 months, we’ve been working with Historic England on the question : How can we work together with more, and more diverse, people so that more action is taken to support the historic environment? The first step…

Over the last 6 weeks, we’ve been working with Historic England to ask for your experiences from up and down the country of supporting the historic places and heritage that matter to you. …

Every day up and down the country we take actions big and small to champion the history around us. The local shops we go out of our way to support or the homes we lovingly restore, the celebrations we hold or the campaigns we wage, whatever the nature of the…

What will 2020 bring for local communities? As 2019 draws to a close and the country digests the implications of the general election result, a vital debate is brewing over the future of community power and the role of local authorities. It starts from a shared goal that New Citizenship…

As we continue our inquiry into the Future of Cultural Heritage, we’re speaking to a few key people from the sector along the way, bringing their thoughts, insights, builds and challenges to bear on the exploration our group is undertaking as we go. Recently, Katie and I had the pleasure…

Over the last 5 months we’ve been working together with 6 cultural heritage organisations, ranging from Museums and Archives to Cathedrals and Abbeys, to ask: How can we involve people as participants in shaping our cultural heritage? Together we’re exploring the why, how and what of working with people, not as consumers of, but participants in cultural heritage; with 3 ideas as…

Our work at New Citizenship Project starts from the premise that people are happier, healthier and able to offer more when we are thought of and treated as participants rather than Consumers. …