Culture Healing Communities CIC is a social enterprise in the North East 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.
Commitment to others:
Our projects, including workshops and support, are free of charge and we are grateful to our many patrons that have helped us in providing free support to our communities, as our CIC is dedicated to support people for free.
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!