Culture Healing Communities CIC is a visionary, grassroots social enterprise based in the North East of England, committed to uplifting underrepresented and racially marginalised communities—particularly Black and Global Majority populations—through the powerful intersection of cultural heritage, digital innovation, and mental wellbeing.
Grounded in lived experience and community-led values, our work combines creative practice, trauma-informed care, and digital transformation to challenge exclusion, empower identity, and build resilient, connected communities. We specialise in delivering immersive, accessible, and inclusive digital programmes that amplify community voices and promote healing through creative expression.
Our Digital Future
We are leading experimental work that brings together:
AI and Machine Learning to ethically enhance storytelling and co-creation with underrepresented groups.
Digital sculpting and immersive VR environments as therapeutic and educational tools, enabling communities to express identity, process trauma, and digitally preserve heritage.
WebXR and AR platforms to make our experiences accessible in both physical and digital public spaces.
Smart city dialogues, where we advocate for heritage, inclusion, and digital justice in future urban development.
Community-centred explorations of digital rights, accessibility, and environmental sustainability.
What We Do
Co-create inclusive digital art projects using VR, AR, and AI tools.
Train communities in digital storytelling, 3D modelling, and cultural preservation.
Promote digital equity through access-focused design, multilingual content, and ethical innovation.
Develop partnerships across academia, public institutions, and grassroots networks.
We believe digital spaces must be safe, equitable, and empowering—especially for those historically excluded. Our projects are not only creative, but transformative, modelling what inclusive digital futures can look like.
We are specialised in Community Heritage, Digital Inclusion and Divide, providing support to vulnerable groups through especially designed projects, and helping bringing people together by creating community projects based in culture, digital technology, art, history and heritage.
Our projects aim to support diversity, community, health and culture, including heritage at risk, environment, conservation, gardening and culture, carefully researching and presenting the best solutions for each case.
We actively use digital tools and heritage to tackle social exclusion, mental health issues, isolation, loneliness, discrimination, racism, poverty, diversity or disability and help people feel proud about their progress and development, their heritage, art, culture and identity, through stories, oral memories, objects, connections and traditions.
We help communities recovering disused and abandoned churches and cemeteries, schools with heritage projects and organisations that want to explore how heritage can benefit their communities.
We work with war memorials, research of documents and photographs, oral memory projects, storytelling, recording the stories of ordinary people.
We work with individuals, schools, organisations, groups, councils and parishes, and especially with BAME groups and their rich heritage.
We work with identification of technology adapted to each case.
Digital, AI and people:
We are committed to call on the Government and other organisations regarding the use of AI and we are actively involved promoting the needs for evaluation, severe guidelines and regulations to better understand the risks and the impact of AI in the lives of citizens, including those that are deceased.
We consistently work on the ethics of AI use, asking lawmakers to plan and publish severe guidelines regarding safety, security, transparency, accountability, governance and fair use, especially in areas that can promote mental instability and loss of human life and identity.
One of our aims is to narrow the digital divide in the North East, by monitoring digital inclusion/exclusion, and doing extensive non-biased surveys to gain real knowledge about people’s needs.
We seek definitive, sustainable solutions for a better economy, growth and development, and defining vulnerable groups that may require more digital support to engage freely with the demands of today’s life and services.
We act in the public interest, actively working to secure fundamental rights,challenging social injustice and promote fair, inclusive and sustainable use of AI and digital technology.
We are always interested in partnerships and participating in projects from stakeholders.
Get in touch, send us an email to culturehealingcommunities@outlook.com, we are here to help you with your idea or concept!