Much like Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC’s first year of operation, lock down continued to have an impact on the business’s progress, and so Directors used this time wisely, continuing to plan for the future, which centred around projects, consultation, building partnerships, establishing funding opportunities and keeping an active presence through our social media platforms, in order to continue to gain brand awareness and to enable our followers to understand the CIC's purpose. Future projects include; open days working in collaboration with Heritage, Culture& Community (HCC) Stonea; a fully constitutionalised sub-group, 100% volunteer led, established to promote and publicise the history and importance of Stone Camp; Britain's lowest lying Iron Age Hill Fort and once the feasting place of Queen Boudicca's Iceni tribe. Future projects also include archaeological digs at the site, and the Directors have established partners in order to take that project forward. Open Days at the site include re-enactment, sample digs, history of fire, making Roman pots, storytelling and stakeholders are invited, including local Museums, schools, home schooling and archaeological groups. Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC is an associate member of the Museums in Cambridgeshire partnership run by Cambridgeshire County Council, the Rural Museum’s Network and Jigsaw, a Cambridgeshire based archacological group, managed by Oxford Archacology East, one of the country's Ieading Archacological consultancies. The company will organise two guided tours at Stonea Camp for visitors, during the nationwide Heritage Open Days project. There have also been a number of talks and presentations on Stonea Camp to groups and organisations. Working in partnership with March Town FC Estover CIC, we have created a series of winter lectures based on local history and heritage, to be delivered from the newly developed Estover Sports Pavilion, from October 2022. The Pavilion has plenty of parking, areas for refreshment and plenty of room for seating and delivering presentations. Consultation highlights that our followers would like to see more of our sub-group’s Fenland Seasonal Recipe’s content. As eating local produce, seasonally is ecologically friendly and helps households with the cost of living crisis. DMJ Imagery Ltd and Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC filmed a local Remembrance Day service for a local Church. Heritage. Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC recognise there is plenty of youth voice available for young people within our local market towns, but the young people and children in rural areas, are left voiceless, unable to attend events in towns due to a number of factors. The CIC is in the initial stages of creating a youth voice for our local rural youth and children. Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC are developing a film project including script writing, filming, editing and acting. There will also be a great deal of historical research included, visits to museums and local archives. Safer recruitment is important, we help teach newly constitutionalised groups the importance of safeguarding, assist with DBS checks, policy making and training. The CIC aims to be an umbrella organisation for DBS processing in the near future. Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC work with newly formed groups, in order to assist with writing their constitutions; safely recruiting and retaining volunteers, writing policies, procedures and volunteer handbooks; the company also sign-posts the best places for funding in order to move groups forward. Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC worked in partnership with the Echo Company UK CIC and The Secret Garden in Wisbech to deliver an evening of music with a local group called Topaz, to bring some happiness to the community locally as we came out of the first lock down. This was a very successful event and Topaz joined us on Remembrance Sunday playing the Last Post.

Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC have consulted with followers of sub-group Fenland Seasonal Recipes. The stakeholders want to continue seeing nutritional recipes, made from locally grown, seasonal produce. They would like some lessons and ideas on saving energy. A grant application has been submitted supporting the stakeholder’s request. Local primary schools, youth clubs, scouts and Church groups in rural villages surrounding, local market towns have been approached, and it’s clear leaders agree with Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC’s core belief, that understanding the history and heritage of the place you live in, or have moved to, gives a sense of belonging, which leads to wellbeing and happy communities. Young people are struggling today for a number of reasons, we want to help young people living in rural villages to have their voices heard through a youth voice. The project would help young people connect with the place they live in through a media based heritage project, based on local history; and then the CIC will help the young people express how they feel about the place they live in today. A grant application has been submitted around this project, following consultation. Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Projects CIC, having been approached by several newly formed constitutionalised groups, especially during lockdown, assisted with policies and procedures and safeguarding training, as some of the Directors are fully trained in this area. Representatives from Cambridgeshire Constabulary have been approached and are supportive of the CIC delivering safeguarding training and becoming an umbrella organisation for DBS processing. A recommendation has been made from the Constabulary to apply to The County’s Police & Crime Commissioner’s annual grant fund to carry this work on, as there are few organisations that provide thorough safeguarding training. Each time Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Project CIC’s, constitutionalised sub-group, Heritage, Culture & Community (HCC) Stonea delivers a talk, presentation or tour of Stonea Camp, consultation is carried out. There definitely is a call for the organisation to deliver more open days, and carry out further archaeological digs of the site, in order to see what more can be established from the site itself, and surrounding area. Presently the Directors are organising an expression of interest, to move this project forward.

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