HEritage and Art Trails of Cardiff Project (HEART of Cardiff Project)

Lead Research Organisation: Cardiff University
Department Name: Sch of History, Archaeology & Religion

Abstract

Before the advent of the Roman invasions Caerau Iron-age hillfort was once the major power centre for the entire Cardiff region. In a sense, all roads would have lead to this important site which would have been a focal place where outlying communities would come together to express their identity and power through the construction of monumental earthworks.

Today, however, Caerau and Ely are areas of significant social and economic deprivation and marginalisation, particularly for young people. High unemployment, poor educational opportunities and a range of social problems inhibit life chances and create a culture of aspirational poverty. There is also a significant and, to a large extent, exaggerated stigma associated with this area of Cardiff and its problems. For many young people today then, all roads seem to lead away from Caerau and Ely.

The HEART of Cardiff Project aims to directly address issues of marginalisation and aspirational poverty working in collaboration with community partner ACE (Action in Caerau and Ely) to significantly expand their existing All our Stories project and establish a circular heritage trail, researched and created by local residents and young people and punctuated by their heritage themed artwork and supported by a digital resource trail, which will connect local communities with St Fagans National History Museum and once again place Caerau and Ely and their amazing histories at the heart of West Cardiff.

Building on the recently funded HLF All our Stories Pathway to the Past Project at Caerau hillfort and dovetailing with the CAER Heritage Project phase 2 Digging Caerau excavations and reconstruction of an Iron Age village at St Fagans National History Museum, the HEART of Cardiff Project will engage local people of all ages in the design of the heritage trail and the creation of an accompanying digital resource, hosted by the People's Collection website, which will provide historical information and folk memories about important local sites way-marking the trail. Young people facing exclusion will then employ this design and the accompanying histories/stories and will physically create the heritage trail linking communities in Caerau, Ely and Fairwater with St Fagans.

As they design and build this heritage trail, participants will work with a professional artist and early career academics to express their findings through heritage themed artwork, eco-graffiti and a digital resource. Developing the model of the Pathway to the Past All our Stories project with ACE, local people will also work closely with academic researchers, university students and heritage management experts to learn about and research the amazing multi-period heritage of the area. They will discover how they can preserve and enhance that heritage - strengthening bonds of community and acquiring new skills and confidence in the process. In conjunction with the Digging Caerau, HEART of Cardiff will thereby create a lasting legacy which will invest local young people in their heritage, providing them with a powerful sense of the importance of their 'home turf' and encouraging people from outside of Caerau and Ely to visit, rather than shun, this unique and vibrant area of Cardiff.

Planned Impact

The HEART of Cardiff project will create a lasting legacy which will invest local people in their heritage, providing them with a powerful sense of the importance of their 'home turf' and encouraging people from outside of Caerau and Ely to visit, rather than shun, this unique and vibrant area of Cardiff. A range of informal and formal educational activities providing skills and challenging aspirational poverty will be delivered and developed through the process of co-produced research on the Digging Caerau project which will dovetail with HEART of Cardiff. This research will inform both academic and heritage interpretations of the site expressed through educational progression, heritage themed creative art and a legacy of heritage infrastructure. This will be supported by a community driven 'viral' campaign to promote the heritage and communities of Caerau and Ely co-ordinated by artist Paul Evans and the Early Career contributors.

Through a heritage themed art trail and accompanying digital resource HEART of Cardiff will thereby create a sustainable heritage resource which will be of benefit to the community; attracting external visitors and stimulating positive interest in Caerau, while also encouraging local residents to physically explore their heritage and utilise the significant resources provided by the National History Museum. In conjunction with the Digging Caerau project, it will thereby establish a firm link between the Iron-Age archaeology at the heart of the community and the reconstructed Iron-Age village, informed by research on that archaeology and co-produced by the community, at the St Fagans National History Museum just over a mile away. Moreover, community members will be active participants, contributors and beneficiaries at all stages in this project.

The HEART of Cardiff Project aims to directly address issues of marginalisation and aspirational poverty working in collaboration with community partner ACE (Action in Caerau and Ely) to significantly expand their existing All our Stories project and establish a circular heritage trail, researched and created by local people and punctuated by their heritage themed artwork, which will connect local communities with St Fagans National History Museum and once again place Caerau and Ely and their amazing histories at the heart of West Cardiff.

Building on the recently funded HLF All our Stories Pathway to the Past Project at Caerau hillfort and dovetailing with the CAER Heritage Project phase 2 Digging Caerau excavations and reconstruction of an Iron Age village at St Fagans National History Museum, the HEART of Cardiff Project will engage local people of all ages in the design of the heritage trail and the creation of an accompanying digital resource, hosted by the People's Collection website, which will provide historical information and folk memories about important local sites way-marking the trail. Young people facing exclusion will then employ this design and the accompanying histories/stories and will physically create the heritage trail linking communities in Caerau, Ely and Fairwater with St Fagans.

As they design and build the heritage trail the participants, both young and old, will work together with a professional artist, academics and heritage experts to express their findings through heritage themed artwork and eco-graffiti at identified way-marks which will be linked to the digital resource through QR codes. Developing the model of the Pathway to the Past All our Stories project with ACE, young people will also work closely with academic researchers, university students and heritage management experts to learn about and research the amazing multi-period heritage of the area. They will discover how they can preserve and enhance that heritage - strengthening bonds of community and acquiring new skills and confidence in the process.
 
Title .Short film by former CAER Studio local artist Charlotte about young people getting involved in creative heritage art & designing heritage play 
Description Short film by former CAER Studio local artist Charlotte about young people getting involved in creative heritage art & designing heritage play with her & community artist Nic at our Hidden Hillfort excavation open day 2019. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact Around 30 young people got involved in creative heritage art & designing heritage play at our excavation open day 2018 - learning about archaeology and heritage through creativity. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XWnQ4TmIbU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2haNWgC9R6tJy1waWDYoPwpMa9wk...
 
Title Accessible Iron Age Puppet Film Tour co-created with local charity Cardiff People First 
Description Film designed, scripted and co-produced with people with learning disabilities from charity Cardiff People First and film maker Viv Thomas, puppets co-produced with the CAER Studio team. The film provides an accessible Iron Age Puppet tour of Caerau Hillfort for visitors who cannot currently access the monument. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact The projected cemented partnerships with Cardiff People First who will be embedded in the activity plan for CAER's HLF Hidden Hillfort Project. The film also contributed ideas and co-production strategies that were incorporated into the successful HLF grant application. The film provides an engaging resource for visitors and others who are interested in the archaeology of Caerau going forward. 
URL https://vimeo.com/312672528?ref=em-share
 
Title Alanah's Dig 
Description In summer 2016 the CAER team undertook a small-scale excavation of a deserted medieval village in Ely as part of the CAER Model Village project. Local cameraman Vivian Thomas recorded much of the excavation on video. This included the experience of Alanah Evans, a 6th form pupil from the local secondary school (Michaelston Community College). Alanah undertook a placement on the dig over a 2 week period and Vivian later collaborated with her to produce an inspiring short film in which she talks about her experiences while digging and how it has shaped what she'd like to do next with her life. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact Alanah Evans went on to apply to take a degree in Ancient History and archaeology at Cardiff University, she lives on the Ely estate and none of her family have ever progressed into a higher education context. David Wyatt wrote supporting reference for her UCAS application, she has since been conditionally offered a degree place. This film was screened at the launch of the new Cardiff West Community School in Ely at the request of the Headmaster Dr Martin Hulland. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AmLw3kEuCQ
 
Title Artists' blog about heritage themed Imaginative Play workshop 
Description Imaginative play workshop at CAER Heritage excavation open day June 2019 which engaged over 60 adults and young people. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact Imaginative play workshop at CAER Heritage excavation open day June 2019 which engaged over 30 young people getting them to think creatively about heritage and to value it. Activities included imaginative play with giant 'heritage' Jenga, timeline stepping stones, 'story stones' and stickmen to encourage the creation and exploration of stories of times gone by at the hillfort - and a mud cafe to cook up Iron Age broths and potions! Former CAER Studio artist Nicola ran the activities alongside local Community artist Charlotte. 
URL https://caerheritageproject.com/2019/07/23/imaginative-play-at-the-hidden-hillfort-launch-event/?fbc...
 
Title Banner Bright Procession ad Exhibition 
Description Organised by academic and community partners in two Connected Communities projects (Representing Communities and the CAER Heritage Project AH/K007726/1 & AH/K007629/1). The CAER element consisted of the co-creation of two community banners by year 7 pupils from Glyn Derw High and retired community members from Healthy, Wealthy and Wise and project artist Paul Evans. Once created the banners were marched down the embankment of the Taff with street dance performance from pupils of Michaelston Community College who had undertaken dance workshops to train for this performance. The procession also showcased banners made by pupils from Merthyr Tydfil who also took part in the procession. The procession ended in a public performance of song and dance by both sets of pupils at the Millenium Centre in Cardiff Bay to celebrate the history, identity and future imaginings of the people living in these places. This event was attended by the Healthy, wealthy and Wise group from Caerau and Ely. The banners were subsequently exhibited in the Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay along with the By'ere Tapestry - an embroidery created by members of Healthy, Wealthy and Wise which features important places in the history of Caerau and Ely and which took 7 years to construct. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2014 
Impact Banner Bright provided an opportunity to showcase the ways in which communities have used and are currently using banners, as well as other forms of artistic expression, to speak to people in power. It represents the CAER project's objectives in relation to valuing community identity, talent, heritage and co-production strategies; bringing together inter-generational groups in a celebration of their communities on a very public stage. 
URL https://www.facebook.com/apps/feed#!/media/set/?set=a.714880425225276.1073741889.340199539360035&typ...
 
Title CAER HEDZ Animated Film 
Description Community volunteers and local school pupils actively participating in 2015 archaeological excavation creatively expressed their discovery of the Iron Age past through the clay modelling of Celtic heads at the excavation site. An on-site animation workshop followed with participants involved in the process of working with the heads to create lip-synched animations. The heads were then photographed and digitised for studio development into a professional quality animation. Local resident and filmmaker, Viv Thomas, undertook audio and filmed interviews over the course of the excavation inviting local participants to express their feelings and experiences about the Caerau site including their involvement in archaeological research and discovery. Broader stories about the area's heritage were collected from local residents of all ages through community group networks. Both of these processes were facilitated by a local co-ordinator working with community development organisation Action in Caerau and Ely (ACE). The audio from these interviews was then used to further animate the modelled CAER-HEDZ into a 'talking heads' short studio animation film release in September 2015. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2015 
Impact The film showcased innovative and critically reflective research co-production perspectives and practices thereby enhancing the ongoing initiatives of CAER and reflecting the Connected Communities Programme core principles. It provided opportunities for training/educational development and progression for 16 young people from Michaelston Community College and 12 adult participants inculcating a range of skills including media and film production as well as archaeological skills. The digitally produced animation provides a clear voice for local participants showcasing the talent and heritage of Caerau and Ely, the film was widely publicised in the Welsh media including coverage by BBC Wales. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfDmONyfifM
 
Title CAER Model Village 
Description The Model Village project transformed participants into both historical and archaeological co-researchers and also into co-producers and co-directors of a remarkable animated film that explores the value of community heritage assets through a temporal perspective of past, present and future. Community participants worked alongside academics, heritage professionals, an artist and an animated filmmaker to explore key eras of human settlement in Caerau and Ely, medieval and modern. The project involved participants including young people in an archaeological excavation, a historical research project and a creative animated film. Full report submitted in September 2016. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact The Model Village worked in close collaboration with CAER's Dusty's First World War Project which further developed the Model Village's research findings from the Glamorgan Archive and supplemented them with oral histories in November 2016 leading to a community co-produced exhibition at the Cardiff Story Museum launching on 5th December 2016. The involvement of two young people facing exclusion from the CAER Young People Opportunity project has subsequently resulted in one of those young people (Jake) securing a work placement at the Glamorgan Archive. Overall, the co-production strategies and research developed by the Model Village Project have significantly informed a much larger grant application The Hidden Hillfort Project which was submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund by the CAER team in September 2016 (£ 986,200.00). Blog posts: https://caerheritageproject.com/2016/07/29/dustys-first-world-war/ https://caerheritageproject.com/2016/07/21/the-model-village-part-1/ https://caerheritageproject.com/2016/08/08/the-model-village-part-2/ The Model Village film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMdZ1jLyzw&feature=yout 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMdZ1jLyzw&feature=youtu.be
 
Title CAER Studio development of a series of 10 creatively co-produced art objects and craft items derived from 6 artists commissions inspired by the history and heritage of the community of Caerau and Ely in South West Cardiff. 
Description CAER Studio has instigated an artistic collective of 6 local artists, a film maker and creative volunteers who have created a portfolio of sale-able products and artwork including: soft play Neolithic Axe (local artist Becci Holmes), ceramics modelled on Bronze Age Axe heads (Imogen Higgins), ceramic Iron Age roundhouse bee/bird houses and a triptych (Dylan Sutton), Iron-Age Themed textiles (Nicola Parsons), poster art by Charlotte Taylor and prints, key-rings, puppets and ceramic jewelry made by community participants. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact The development of heritage art based social enterprise that has informed successful grant capture that will, in turn, sustain and develop these initiatives through community partner Action in Caerau and Ely (HLF £829k, Moondance Foundation £200k). The development of new networks and partnerships between local artists and development workers which will also be sustained through these grants. The generation of income for ACE and local artists through sale of products. 
URL https://caerstudio.com/blog/
 
Title Co-produced art installation to celebrate 10 years of CAER Heritage 
Description The installation, developed by Creative Cardiff and the Caerau and Ely Rediscovering (CAER) Heritage Project, tells the story of a decade-long programme of community initiatives delivered in partnership by Cardiff University, Action in Caerau and Ely (ACE),schools, local artists and creative people, residents and heritage partners. On display at the Hidden Hillfort Community Heritage Centre, which was opened by First Minister Mark Drakeford in September, the celebratory artworks portray the key figures who have each played a part in the project's decade of success across ten decorative panels. Designed by local artist Nic Parsons, the installation incorporates drawings made by local community members and school children from Cardiff West High School. Portraits sketched by Nic, fellow artists Paul Kenneth Evans and Bill Taylor-Beales, and a poem by Sue Hamblen also feature. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact CAER Heritage wouldn't exist without the hard work, dedication, passion and talent of all the local people involved and there have been literally thousands of people - of all ages - who've contributed over the years. To recognise the contributions of a few of them in such a creative way is very much in tune with our project which has always involved art and imagination to explore the past. Not only that, local people have had the opportunity to learn illustration skills and techniques from our project artists Nic and Paul and have their work featured within the final piece too. This type of co-creation is the cornerstone of CAER Heritage. The installation is permanently on display at the entrance to the new CAER Heritage Community Centre. 
URL https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2584852-original-artworks-honour-people-behind-heritage-project-...
 
Title Co-production of Virtual Reality experience at Caerau based on archaeological research. 
Description Co-production of Virtual Reality experience at Caerau based on archaeological research.This is being co-produced with VR company Digichemistry and local young people. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact 6 local young people took a short VR free course. They visited Caerau hillfort and intereacted with excavated artefacts with Cardiff University academics to learn about archaeology and their prehistoric heritage, they then created performances which were incorporated into the Iron Age VR experience working with VR digital professionals learning new technical skills and media opportunities for the young people. This initiative will in turn feed into the production of an accessible VR experience at Caerau's Hidden Hillfort Heritage Centre which will be constructed in 2020. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=THvKk8oydLU&feature=emb_title
 
Title Creating New Pasts and New Futures - Digital Flip Book 
Description A digital flip book to celebrate the tenth birthday of CAER Heritage project reflecting on how much creative people have contributed to the collective discovery of Caerau and Ely's past - both facilitating and celebrating that discovery every step of the way. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This flip book contributed to partnership building and co-production that resulted in the co-creation of a permanent art installation at the CAER Heritage Community Centre in Caerau. 
URL https://creativecardiff.org.uk/index.php/caer-creativity
 
Title Creative performance celebrating heritage and talent of young people from Cardiff West Community High at AHRC WW1 Engagement Centre Festival, Cardiff 
Description Creative performance celebrating heritage and talent of young people from Cardiff West Community High at AHRC WW1 Engagement Centre Festival in the Temple of Peace Cardiff delivered in partnership with CAER Heritage team as part of Policy Breakfast and Resival day. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact Opportunity for 30 young people from Cardiff West Community High expressive arts group to perform for an international audience of academics and heritage professionals at Cardiff's beautiful Temple of Peace challenging negative sterotypes about their communities. 
URL https://www.facebook.com/CAERHeritageProject/videos/415716525698596/
 
Title DNA Cymru 
Description TV production company Greenbay produced a 4 hour TV series for S4C exploring origins in Wales employing DNA analysis. Myself and the CAER team have been working with them on this, community members and Caer project participants from Caerau and Ely were tested and featured in the final episode of the series. Greenbay filmed a geophysical survey of the medieval ringwork (2015) and filmed extensively at the 2015 excavations at the hillfort. This episode was broadcast on S4C in January 2016. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact CAER Heritage featured prominently in 2 episodes of this Welsh language TV series which presented a very positive perspective of the site, the project and the local communities to Welsh speaking audiences across Wales and internationally. 
URL http://www.s4c.cymru/cymrudnawales/e_index.shtml
 
Title Dusty's World War One Exhibition 
Description A temporary co-produced museum exhibition including co-produced art installations exhibited at Cardiff Story Museum December 2016 - February 2017. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact The exhibition has attracted 3,532 visitors. Through the exhibition, Cardiff residents and visitors to the city experience the positive, vibrant history of Ely and Caerau, thus tackling ill-founded stereotypes and the external stigmas about the area. This project worked with elderly residents, valuing their knowledge and expertise, developing social networks, addressing isolation and nurturing intergenerational contact with young people. 30 year 9 school pupils gained opportunities for educational development and new skills including communication, team building, numeracy and literacy. 20 people were interviewed by the children for the exhibition and mural. As the school involved has a low take-up to University, breaking down barriers to HE was a significant objective, with pupils working alongside academics and postgraduates. One sixth-former who participated is now considering studying history at university. A further 60 people contributed to the project, by sharing memories at a range of local events in collaboration with community development partner ACE (Action in Caerau and Ely). Participants got a greater understanding not only of their WW1 heritage, but of the houses and streets in which they live. The project reinforced the University's commitment to the co-production of knowledge with local communities. It facilitated strong partnerships with local community groups and non-HE partners. Follow on projects are now planned to explore local place names and the project has also informed aspects of a recently secured large Heritage Lottery Grant to explore the area's rich archaeology and heritage. One of the schoolchildren involved said: " it was interesting to see what happened and what Ely was like back thenit was a fun experience, especially at the Glamorgan Archives and interviewing people who have lived in Ely for many yearsI loved hearing older people's stories about what they experienced in the past and seeing how different it was to my own life in Ely now." One of the hardest to reach pupils - who was at risk of exclusion from school - said in his feedback that the project had helped him understand how important school is, helped his learning in school, helped improve his confidence and social skills and that he learnt new skills on the trip. After a visit to the Glamorgan Archives, in his words, he said 'It was sick. I want to go here again.' He has since undertaken work experience at the Archives. The project has been submitted for consideration to the Guardian Higher Education Awards - Social and Community Impact category' Please see attached link report below and various entries detailing impacts on the CAER Heritage blog page: https://caerheritageproject.com/caer-blog/ 
URL https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/534204-exhibition-explores-ww1-origins-of-ely
 
Title Film interview with Mark Drakeford Welsh First Minister by CAER Film Maker Viv Thomas 
Description Film interview with Mark Drakeford Welsh First Minister by CAER Film Maker Viv Thomas at Policy Breakfast event. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact Film interview with Mark Drakeford Welsh First Minister by CAER Film Maker Viv Thomas at Policy Breakfast event. Provides clear indication of political support for CAER Heritage 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3wpbpTw93E&feature=share
 
Title Heritage Trail Logos 
Description In December 2013 Dave Wyatt and Paul Evans visited Michaelston College and Glyn Derw to brainstorm, design and develop the first two way-mark designs for the HEART of Cardiff trails. These intensive creative workshops focussed on 'Medieval Michaelston' and the 'Romans to the Races' trails. After a brief introduction by Dave, the young people made a series of quick thumbnail sketches. The young people then selected their favourite sketch and were given guidance on how to convert this design into a simple motif, suitable for stencilling. The CAER team also delivered a way mark logo co-creation workshop with the Friends of Caerau Hillfort group as part of a CAER project Christmas celebration event. Around 15 local residents attended this event with Paul Evans facilitating a workshop to design a striking way mark logo for the Celtic Caerau trail through a collective game of 'Pictionary.' We later returned to GAT in March 2014 and co-designed a way mark logo for the Plymouth Woodland Walk employing the same co-creation strategy. With the way mark logos complete the designs have been employed to create a series of plastic stencils that have been laser cut with the assistance of teachers at Michaelston Community College. Over April 2014 the community groups and school pupils involved in creating the way mark logos have walked each of their respective trails employing the stencils to make impermanent (chalk, scrubbing surfaces, grass cutting) and permanent marks (spray paint) at key points on the trails to mark the way. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2014 
Impact The way mark logo designs interface with a published trail leaflet and online HEART of Cardiff trail web resource for the trails which features artwork and other contributions of memories and knowledge from participating schools and community members. To ensure ongoing 'ownership' and engagement of co-creators and their trails both ACE and participating schools have agreed to organise bi-annual trail walks to litter pick, monitor access, vegetation clearance and to refresh the impermanent and permanent markers with the way mark logo stencils. ACE has incorporated this into its Timebank programme with participants being rewarded with credits. 
URL http://caerheritageproject.com/projects/heart-of-cardiff/
 
Title Heritage Trail Temporary Art Interventions 
Description Two workshops were delivered to art classes in Glyn Derw High School (year 9) and Michaelston Community College (year 7) in March 2014. The challenge behind the workshops was to create transitory, witty works of art that reflected something of the heritage of the trail - creating ephemeral artworks and in situ images to populate our heritage trail resources. At Glyn Derw High we researched Roman motifs and made a series of thumb-nail sketches. We then braved the icy winds blowing over Trelai fields to create an army of buried legionaries emerging from the site of the Roman Villa on the Romans to Races trail. The young artists then made 3D graffiti models and placed these along the trail photographing them as they went. A similar workshop was also undertaken with the pupils at Michaelston Community College, this time themed on the medieval heritage of the location including St Michael's church. We decided that the door of the church would make an excellent 'portal' into the past - so we made one using interwoven twigs and branches. As at Glyn Derw, during the next stage of the workshop the young people made individual ephemeral artworks using modelling clay - again from the preliminary sketches based on Medieval motifs. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2014 
Impact The, tried and tested, combination of archaeological and historically themed art and direct physical engagement with local sites proved an effective means of investing and engaging a new group of young people in their local heritage whilst inculcating a range of creative and interpersonal skills. 
URL http://caerheritageproject.com/caer-blog/
 
Title Hidden Hillfort Downloadable Activity Booklet For Children 
Description Co created by CAER Heritage community artist Nic Parsons (formerly CAER Studio) with ACE Art group this activity booklet contains art and creative activities for children to engage with the 5 ages of Caerau hillfort. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact Conceptually the activity booklet pilots interpretation strategies for the Hidden Hillfort Heritage Centre which will open in September 2021. The Booklet was designed for children and adults to engage with heritage activities during the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns. It supported CAER Heritages broader Big Dig activities during the 2020 lockdown. 
URL https://caerheritageproject.com/get-involved/
 
Title Iron Age Playground Design with Local People 
Description Fun learning through a series of play field trips with around 15 adults and young people from community group Unity to generate design ideas for a heritage themed playground at Caerau. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact For the CAER Heritage Project, staff team, the relationship with the current residents of Caerau Hillfort and the surrounding area is just as important as its historic occupants. The immediate area, Church Road, is home not only to incredible history and archaeology but also an active and thriving community group, Unity. Our relationship with the group has gone from strength to strength with us spending every Wednesday this summer holiday working together on a very important aspect of the Hidden Hillfort project, the heritage themed playground. 
URL https://caerheritageproject.com/2019/08/07/learning-through-iron-age-play/?fbclid=IwAR3Q-EtJqDdjXoHK...
 
Title Model Village at the Connected Communities Utopia Fair, Somerset House 
Description Young and not-so-young visitors to The Model Village stall were invited to design their own character or scenery to feature in our Model Village Theatre - created in laser cut plywood by MAKERS Sheffield. After designing their characters for the theatre, our visitors were given the option to further develop their own individual cartoon characters - inhabitants for our Utopian 'Model Village'. They also worked on scripts for their characters. These characters were then scanned into iPads and imported into a user-friendly app that allowed them to create short, scripted animation sequences. iPad photographs of Somerset House were used as backgrounds or scenery for these sequences. In all over 15 animation sequences were created over the duration of the festival. The film that we developed during the early stages of The Model Village Project also received a special screening as part of the Utopia Fair film programme. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact Number of visitors (estimated) Friday Night: 100 Saturday: 400 Sunday: 400 Age split (estimated) 0-6 years old: 5% 6-12: 30% 12-16: 15% 18-24: 5% 24-40: 15% 40+: 30% 
URL https://caerheritageproject.com/2016/08/19/the-model-village-part-3/
 
Title Pathway to the Past Mural 
Description Pathway to the Past is a CAER spin-off project funded by an All Our Stories HLF grant in collaboration with our community partners Action Caerau & Ely (ACE) - working with staff from the National History Museum, North Ely Youth and Community Centre and 10 local young people (aged between 14-16) experiencing exclusion from school. Over a period of several weeks the young people designed and co-created an Iron Age themed mural to signpost the trail. The mural was designed and developed by the young people during a series of intensive street-art workshops devised by Paul Evans, in close collaboration with St Fagan's Iron Age expert and artist Ian Daniel. To set the context, the young people visited the Iron Age reconstructed hillfort at Castell Henllys in West Wales. Here they engaged in two workshops devised by Paul. The first, a digital photography activity, was based on the micro-montages of street artist Slinkachu, and the other was a variation on eco-graffiti activities that Paul had used to effect during previous stages of the project. In this instance, the young people left their outlines on the side of the fort - a biodegradeable impression of their visit. Back at the youth centre, the young people engaged in two days of drawing workshops, generating letters and figures that Paul and Ian developed into finished designs for council approval. The young people were then given a choice of five designs based on their ideas and motifs - with Ian's design getting the vote. The mural design features two Iron Age Round houses, 'Ely beans' and graceful 'celto-graffiti' lettering spelling out the word Caerau (meaning 'hill-forts' in Welsh). The A4 sized mural design was then scaled to full size - over 15 metres in length - and painstakingly applied onto the underpass and in masonry paint. The young people from the youth centre participated in the painting and added their own graffiti 'tags'. The resulting artwork constituted a vivid, direct, contemporary connection to the pre-historic past which has since been incorporated into the HEART of Cardiff Heritahe Trails network. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2013 
Impact The CAER team, including artist Paul Evans and Ian Daniel (Celtic demonstrator from the National Museum of Wales), worked with 3 Youth Workers to develop and devise a programme of heritage themed trips and create an art installation with a small group of young people facing exclusion. This required a significant number of meetings and close collaboration during the course of this small project. Contact has been maintained with the Youth Centre and other groups of young people from there have subsequently participated in Caerau excavations and continue to be involved in the ongoing reconstruction of an Iron Age Village at St Fagans National History Museum. 
URL http://caerheritageproject.com/caer-blog/
 
Title Photos and Iolo Exhibition 
Description Photos and Iolo Exhibition, July 2014 (as part of Connected Communities Festival) Photos and Iolo was a CAER Heritage Project exhibition format that was developed and co-produced by artist Paul Evans with pupils from Glyn Derw High School, National Museum Wales staff Loveday Williams, Owain Rhys and Ian Daniel, and CAER Heritage Project directors Dave Wyatt and Oliver Davis. Consisting of a series of re-usable pop-up banners Photos and Iolo was an interactive experience that encouraged viewers to get involved with the images on display by searching for the bard Iolo (or Ian Daniel, the Museum's Celtic demonstrator) - photo-shopped into images of Caerau and Ely that were taken by local residents. Once the participants have found Iolo then they are encouraged to take part in a riddle competition. These Riddles were created by pupils from Glyn Derw High School. The images featured came from a Barnardos project which took place in Ely and Caerau in the 1980s. Visitors who successfully solved the riddles were rewarded with an exhibition photo-booklet. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2014 
Impact The co-creation of riddles with Glyn Derw High facilitated working with a class of English pupils and their teacher for the first time at the school. The exhibition at St Fagans was attended by around 60 visitors - engaging museum visitors with Connected Communities co-produced heritage research and highlighting local skills and showcasing community heritage assets. The exhibition was then subsequently transferred to the Caerau excavation site and exhibited during the Big Lunch open day in July 2014 to around 100 visitors, mostly local residents. Indeed, the pop-up banners and accompanying booklets make the exhibition portable and recyclable, allowing for it to be displayed and reused at other locations and events, for example it will go on display again during the CAER Project's Christmas 2014 event. 
URL http://caerheritageproject.com/caer-blog/
 
Title Postcards to the Iron Age 
Description Artist Paul Evans devised this drop in activity during the CAER Heritage Project exhibition at St Fagans on Monday 18th June. It has subsequently been employed at almost all CAER Project engagement events and excavations and has produced remarkable results in terms of creative engagement with heritage and as an art themed evaluation activity. Visitors to events are asked to write a postcard to their ancesors in the Iron Age (or from the Iron Age to the present day) and-or draw an image. They are then given a CAER project 'time-travelling' stamp and post their creation in a Post-box to the Past. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2012 
Impact This simple artistic concept has proved remarkably successful in engaging and investing visitors and participants in the CAER Project events and activities. The creative/artistic outputs are underpinned by conversations about research and displays concerning archaeological and historical findings. Moreover, as an evaluation tool the activity has proved enlightening and insightful. Over the course of the 3 years of the CAER Project it is estmated that around 700 postcards have been posted to and from the Iron Age. 
URL http://caerheritageproject.com/caer-blog/
 
Title RomanoBritish Project 
Description 'Romanobritish' brought together two secondary schools with a professional artist and an academic in a pilot creative collaboration bringing the Iron Age heritage of Trelai Park and Caerau Hillfort into direct, physical contact with the present. 15 pupils from Y8 - Y10 of Woodland High School and 15 pupils from Y8 from neighbouring Glyn Derw High School/Michaelston Community College (once two separate schools but recently federated) worked with professional artist Paul Evans and Cardiff University CAER Heritage Project to co-produce designs for a series of Iron Age 'playable artworks': themed sports equipment including 'Ping Pong Portals to the Past' or 'Iron Age Street Art' outdoor table tennis tables, decorated table tennis balls, and football kit. After the conclusion of the project the table tennis tables have been permanently sited outside The Michaelston Community College learning centre Ely and Woodlands High school. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact Romanobritish' brought together two local schools, thus strengthening community bonds, challenging stereotypes, improving life choices, developing confidence, partnerships and social networks. The project and its output were also a unique, creative means of bringing the inspiration for this project - the Iron Age heritage of Caerau and Ely to life and, quite literally, into play. Caerau and Ely are host to an extraordinary physical heritage: one of the largest hill forts in South Wales and a Roman villa buried beneath the school playing fields - two sites that local school children have had hands on roles in investigating through the CAER Heritage Project. What made this project so distinctive is not only this amazing heritage, but also its foundation on mutually supportive creative play. This fed directly into 'playable' artworks: doorways to engagement with heritage, and stimuli for future curiosity/discussion way beyond the timescale of the project. The project offered participating young people a structured framework of creative workshops and university quality accessible visual/historical references and acted as a pilot project based around collaborative participation from a special needs and mainstream school. A series of intensive creative workshops with a professional artist and an academic were delivered in these community schools. Qualitative outecomes included valuing artistic ability of young people with learning disabilities within the creative process, inculcating pride in place, development of grass roots relationships, aiding transition at a time of upheaval for Glyn Derw High pupils (the school was at that time being merged and effectively closed down). Challenging stigmas between mainstream and special needs secondary education, expanding social networks and providing new life opportunities by working with creative and academic professionals, raising aspirations and breaking down barriers to higher education, valuing community assets - in particular local heritage. Legacy of School playground resource; table tennis tables decorated with heritage themed art. 
URL http://caerheritageproject.com/caer-blog/
 
Title Short Film made during 2019 excavation about CAER Heritage's Hidden Hillfort Project funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund. 
Description Short Film made during 2019 excavation about CAER Heritage's Hidden Hillfort Project funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact Film has 1,961 views promoting the project and our co-production strategies. 
URL https://www.facebook.com/CAERHeritageProject/posts/2311950172184952
 
Title Short Film made during 2019 excavation about CAER Heritage's community development activity inc. widening access to degrees during the dig featuring art activities developed by CAER Studio 
Description Short Film made during 2019 excavation about CAER Heritage's community development activity during the dig featuring art activities developed by CAER Studio 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact Film had 999 views and details progression of adult learner and dig volunteer Martin onto a degree in archaeology at Cardiff University. 
URL https://www.facebook.com/CardiffUniHistoryArchaeologyReligion/videos/vb.276437462381059/392999341560...
 
Title Short video of CAER art installation launch event 
Description Short video of CAER art installation launch event made by CAER lead local artist Nic Parsons 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Promotes both new CAER Heritage Community Centre and artwork. Celebrates community co-creation for participants. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKbAg2p3jQ&t=12s
 
Title The Making of CAER HEDZ 
Description Community volunteer Viv Thomas filmed and produced a film explaining the making of the AHRC funded CAER HEDZ animated film. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2015 
Impact This film provides an excellent overview of the animation project and has been used within the context of BBC and other media reports on the project. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mPIP9pSWxo
 
Title Tour of Caerau Hillfort Film co-produced with Digichemistry and Year 8 pupils from Cardiff West Community High School 
Description Tour of Caerau Hillfort Film co-produced with film company Digichemistry and Year 8 pupils from Cardiff West Community High School who presented, filmed and directed the film. The film features CAER Heritage research knowledge and an engaging tour of the hillfort undertaken by a class of 30 year 5 pupils from Windsor Clive Primary School. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact The film acted as an excellent transition activity with Cardiff West year 8 pupils interacting with year 5 pupils from partner primary school Windsor Clive who will soon progress to their new school. The year 8s learned technical and presentation skills in film making - working alongside a professional fim maker. The film production further cemented partnership working with local schools and film/ VR company Digichemistry. It provides a resource for CAER Heritage knowledge transfer and the Hidden Hillfort HLF interpretation going forward. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-y52LXLrO4&feature=share
 
Description This project entitled HEART of Cardiff dovetailed closely with the co-produced archaeological research under grant AH/K007726/1 which ran concurrently. HEART of Cardiff engaged local people of all ages in the design of four linked circular heritage trails which take in important archaeological sites, historic locations and local memories encompassing Caerau and Ely's vibrant history from the Iron Age through the Roman and medieval eras to the Second World War and into the 21st century.

The trails are accompanied by physical and digital resources which provide archaeological and historical information and folk memories about important local sites way-marking their course. School pupils and community groups have co-designed and co-created these heritage trails linking the communities Caerau and Ely with St Fagans National History Museum. A wide range of participants have worked with professional artist Paul Evans and early career academics Kate Moles (social sciences) and Stephanie Ward (modern social history) to express their findings through heritage themed timelines and way marks as well as contributing significant content to the trails' digital and physical resources.
Exploitation Route In close accord with the practices of their partner community development organisation, Action in Caerau and Ely (ACE), and with the recent literature produced by a range of Connected Communities scoping studies, the CAER team were committed to involving community members actively in the co-production of the Heritage trails and the research which informed them; valuing the contribution of all participants and partners in a mutually beneficial and reciprocal relationship. Co-design and co-production have been central to both the ethos and the process behind The HEART of Cardiff Heritage Trail.

Working with Dr Kate Moles and Dr Stephanie Ward, artist Paul Evans devised a series of geographical and temporal mapping workshops to tease out memories of Ely and Caerau and serve to: a) translate the impersonal 1:10,000 scale map produced by the HMSO into a personal, meaningful, local topography based on the thoughts, memories and emotional responses of local residents, and b) create a physical timeline reaching back into living memory.

The first of these workshops took place at the headquarters of the Grand Avenue Times (GAT) women's community group at Windsor Clive Primary School, Ely. Here we created a 'layered map' of memories and reflections based on the group's knowledge of the local area. Fragments of a lively and dynamic conversation about Ely and Caerau were written onto transparent acetate squares and pinned in place onto a large (A0) 1:10,000 scale map of the area. The conversations were also recorded as audio files. Edited fragments of these conversations contribute to the trail's digital resources. This layered map strategy allowed us to plan the first stage of the heritage trail route - a loop from North Ely to St Fagans National History Museum and back through Plymouth Woods starting from the recreation ground at the end of Archer Road. We followed this route on a beautiful sunny day, about a week later with Ceri-Ann Gilbert from GAT as our guide.

We also worked with Healthy Wealthy and Wise: senior citizens based at the Old Library, Bishopston Road, Caerau. Over a series of two workshops we created a timeline of memories written onto luggage labels that were ordered chronologically and then tied onto a 4m length of string. Some fascinating and poignant memories emerged from this workshop and these have also informed our planning and content for the heritage trail route.

Crucial to these workshops was a highly democratic approach valuing all contributions. We also recognised the need to take time to gently build relationships and trust through informal conversation and contact rather than launching directly into 'top down' structured activities, a strategy we have developed through preceding CAER activities. Indeed, the development of constructive relationships was facilitated through a process of listening to, learning from and valuing the memories and perspectives of community members; a process which also yielded some remarkable content and outputs for the trails.

Outputs from both of these community workshops were subsequently displayed at the CAER Heritage Project/HEART of Cardiff Roadshow at the Ely Festival on 13th July 2013. Central to our presentation was another large map with the speculative HEART of Cardiff Heritage Trail route marked out in pins and coloured thread. Our first suggestion for the route was soon altered on the basis of local knowledge from a wide range of festival-goers. It was here that we were definitively advised that it might be best to break up the heritage trail into manageable circular sections around a central orbit. Once again, contact was informal and involved chatting to and learning about individual stories over a slice of Caerau Hillfort Cake which had been kindly baked for this event by Ceri-Ann of GAT.

Trail Formation and Pilot Walks (August-December 2013)
Planning and logistical work on the trail continued over the autumn and, in line with recommendations from the Ely Festival, a series of four manageable circular walks (north, south, east and west) were planned onto a map and christened with names in consultation with participating community groups. Following this the Project team undertook a series of four pilot trail walks, over October and November 2013, organised in collaboration with ACE's 'Come Outside' exercise initiative, walking each trail with local residents (between 6 and 20 individuals turned out for each walk) who gave us further interesting insights, facts and local knowledge as we walked the trails and who were rewarded with ACE Time Bank credits for their contributions.

In December 2013 Dave Wyatt and Paul Evans visited Michaelston College and Glyn Derw to brainstorm, design and develop the first two way-mark designs for the HEART of Cardiff trails. These intensive creative workshops focussed on 'Medieval Michaelston' and the 'Romans to the Races' trails. After a brief introduction by Dave, the young people made a series of quick thumbnail sketches. The young people then selected their favourite sketch and were given guidance on how to convert this design into a simple motif, suitable for stencilling.

Two follow on workshops were delivered to the same classes in each school in March 2014. The challenge behind the workshops was to create transitory, witty works of art that reflected something of the heritage of the trail - creating ephemeral artworks and in situ images to populate our heritage trail resources. At Glyn Derw High we researched Roman motifs and made a series of thumb-nail sketches. We then braved the icy winds blowing over Trelai fields to create an army of buried legionaries emerging from the site of the Roman Villa on the Romans to Races trail. The young artists then made 3D graffiti models and placed these along the trail photographing them as they went.

A similar workshop was also undertaken with the pupils at Michaelston Community College, this time themed on the medieval heritage of the location including St Michael's church. We decided that the door of the church would make an excellent 'portal' into the past - so we made one using interwoven twigs and branches. As at Glyn Derw, during the next stage of the workshop the young people made individual ephemeral artworks using modelling clay - again from the preliminary sketches based on Medieval motifs. The, tried and tested, combination of archaeological and historically themed art and direct physical engagement with local sites proved an effective means of investing and engaging a new group of young people in their local heritage whilst inculcating a range of creative and interpersonal skills.

In December 2013 the CAER team delivered a way mark logo co-creation workshop with the Friends of Caerau Hillfort group as part of a CAER project Christmas celebration event. Around 15 local residents attended this event with Paul Evans facilitating a workshop to design a striking way mark logo for the Celtic Caerau trail through a collective game of 'Pictionary.' We later returned to GAT in March 2014 and co-designed a way mark logo for the Plymouth Woodland Walk employing the same co-creation strategy.

With the way mark logos complete the designs have been employed to create a series of plastic stencils that have been laser cut with the assistance of teachers at Michaelston Community College. Over April 2014 the community groups and school pupils involved in creating the way mark logos have walked each of their respective trails employing the stencils to make impermanent (chalk, scrubbing surfaces, grass cutting) and permanent marks (spray paint) at key points on the trails to mark the way.

The HEART of Cardiff Heritage trails were launched collectively as part of the 2014 Cardiff Walking Festival. At the launch visitors were invited to choose one of the HEART of Cardiff trails and join and walk with the local people who helped to create it in a coordinated simultaneous trail walk event that culminated in a gathering of trail walkers from all 4 trails at a heritage fair on the summit of Caerau Hillfort. It is through sustaining regular open access, informal and engaging community heritage events such as this that the CAER Project has built the significant community interest, good will and support which has underpinned the project's success to date and, it is hoped will, ensure its sustainability as an important catalyst for regeneration in this warm and vibrant community.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
URL http://caerheritageproject.com/projects/heart-of-cardiff/
 
Description The CAER Heritage Project works with the communities of Caerau and Ely to explore the area's rich heritage and address the contemporary challenges facing these communities. These Cardiff suburbs are home to more than 25,000 people and constitute the largest social housing estates in Wales. Despite strong community ties, the people that live there are burdened by significant social and economic deprivation, particularly high unemployment and poor educational attainment. CAER is built upon strategies of research co-production - placing local people at the heart of archaeological and historical research - while developing educational opportunities and challenging the unfounded stereotypes ascribed to this part of Cardiff in the process. CAER has established a significant range of social and professional partnerships with non HEI groups and organisations, creating a new community of interest. CAER has grown from relatively humble beginnings in 2011 to become one ACE's key community projects. ACE is a community based organisation which aims to support the social, economic and environmental regeneration of Ely and Caerau. ACE staff have worked with the university staff, every step of the way, to plan the development of CAER; providing access to a network of local community groups and enabling the involvement of local residents in project activities. Close partnerships have also been established with local secondary schools and primary schools to utilise rich and untapped community assets and the talent of local young people to develop new educational and life opportunities and break down barriers to educational progression through embedding research co-production into curricula. Between 2012-2018, CAER has involved 2,570 active participants in co-produced research and heritage activities and engaged with 14,831 visitors at CAER events. The project has worked with 15 institutional partners in the heritage, education, media and local government sectors including the National Museum of Wales, the Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff Story Museum, CADW, RCAHMW, Gwent Glamorgan Archaeology Trust, Cardiff Council and Wales, West Housing Association and professional artist, Paul Evans. Close partnerships have been built with 7 local schools in West Cardiff (4 secondary and 3 primary) and 1,538 local pupils (ages range from year 6-12) have been directly involved in co-produced research and heritage activities including geophysics, excavation, artefact analysis, exhibitions, films, art installations, heritage trails, performances and experimental archaeology. The project has also instigated a CAER Opportunity Project for young people facing exclusion from school and has involved 45 young people (not in education training or employment) in a range of project activities including excavation, heritage path clearance and heritage themed art. The project has delivered six free accredited adult learners courses to 79 local adult learners including unemployed and retired people, involving them actively in the co-production of research while gaining skills. CAER has undertaken three major four-week community excavations at Caerau hillfort in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and one excavation at a the nearby deserted medieval village of Michaelston-Super-Ely in 2016. These excavations have involved 837 local volunteers and engaged 4,363 visitors from across Cardiff and further afield. The project has delivered twenty four heritage themed art, film, exhibition and performance projects involving a professional artist and film producers (Paul Evans, John Harrison, Lighttrap Films), including Tribal logos, Churchyard Detectives, Pathway to the Past, CAERStock films, CAER HEDZ animation, the Virtual Dig, RomanoBritish, Banner Bright, Trek to Connect and The Model Village and CAER Studio, all co-produced with 1,392 active participants. The project has created a network of heritage trails around Caerau and Ely, co-produced and maintained with local community groups and with regular litter picking programme embedded into ACE's Timebank credit volunteer scheme. The project has also received significant media attention and has been the subject of two major national TV productions (Timeteam series 20 and S4C DNA Cymru) featuring the heritage of Caerau and Ely, viewed by at least 1.5m viewers nationally. CAER Heritage has been the subject of 4 national (Wales) primetime TV reports and received extensive coverage in the Welsh press and radio. The CAER web site has 61,185 views to date, CAER Facebook page has 850 likes, post reach regularly exceeds 1k, CAER Twitter account has 475 followers. Building on five years of community co-produced research funded by a series of successful Arts and Humanities Research Council grants, in 2017 ACE and the CAER Team secured a large Heritage Lottery Fund grant to establish the Hidden Hillfort Project. This will instigate three years of community co-produced excavation, surveys and historical research between 2019-2022, along with the development of transformational heritage infrastructure at Caerau Hillfort, including a Hidden Hillfort Heritage Centre, signage, heritage trails and a CAER Heritage suite within the new build local secondary school. This will transform access and visitor understanding at the monument while improving educational opportunities for local young people and adults - including four university scholarships for local pupils involved in the project and eight adult learners pathway scholarships funded by Cardiff University. The University have also confirmed funding of a five year academic project director to be embedded in the community context at ACE (2018-2023), while Wales and West Housing association have confirmed £70k to fund a heritage themed playground at the site inspired by CAER Heritage research. CAER's innovative strategies of co production have been recognised through highly competitive national awards. In 2017 the project was awarded the Times Higher Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community, it was also overall winner of the NCCPE Engage Competition 2014 beating over 230 entrants from across the UK and securing £3.5k in prize money. These awards have reinforced community pride and confidence, for example all emails from ACE staff now bear the banner of Times Higher Award Winner. Local volunteer Helen stated: 'the project has won two major community archaeology awards, projecting us onto a national stage...it has taught me that everyone can bring something positive to the table.' CAER Heritage has been cited as an exemplary model of engagement during a Welsh Government debate on 'ensuring wider access to our heritage and culture'. Prof Andrew Thompson CEO of the AHRC has stated that he frequently cites CAER Heritage as an example of the value and benefit of arts and humanities research when speaking to UK government and other key stakeholders. The project has also been praised at the AHRC Connected Communities Festival 2015 (Jeff Cuthbert AM), at the NCCPE UK Engage Conference UK Plenary sessions 2014 and 2015 and published as an example of innovation in the Research Councils UK Inspiration to Engage Concordat Publication, 2015 (pages 4-5). In a recent survey 98% of respondents stated that their visit to the Caerau excavations had increased their interest in archaeology; 94% said that it had helped them to better understand the importance of the archaeology at Caerau; 88% said that it had changed the way that they think about Caerau and 91% said that their visit had changed their attitude towards their community's history. Indeed, CAER has significantly harnessed local confidence and talent and is altering attitudes towards community identity and heritage (see quote from Dave Horton 1.e). Dr Martin Hulland of Cardiff West Community High School stated: 'CAER Heritage has proved to be hugely beneficial to the pupils, staff and wider community and everyone who has taken part before have appreciated the contribution made by those involved from the University. The project aims very much echo and support my intentions to work towards transforming education in the West of Cardiff.' The CAER team have undertaken qualitative research (now published) on the positive effects of long term involvement in relation to the health and well-being of a group of volunteers. ' Community volunteer Tom has the final word: 'we've sort of been as an area we're pushed to the back a lot and have been for years so all of us we're at the forefront for something you know which is pretty amazing reallyI suffer quite a bit from depression so it's given me drive to get out of the house, get involved, become part of a team.'
First Year Of Impact 2013
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural,Societal
 
Description CAER Heritage Team invited to present to National Lottery Heritage Fund Wales on our project's award winning Covid-19 response 17/9/20
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description CAER Project Featured in RCUK Publications including RCUK Inspiration to Engage Concordat Publication and Research for Community Heritage Brochure
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/publications/ConcordatInspiration.pdf
 
Description CAER Project the subject of an AHRC Impact Case Study (Hyland/Lugg) and Film
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/News/Pages/Research-Councils-UK-(RCUK)-Impact-Report-2013.aspx
 
Description CAER cited HEFCW's 2018 Innovation Nation Civic Mission Policy Report as an example of excellent practice in university innovation and collaboration
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.hefcw.ac.uk/documents/publications/hefcw_reports_and_statistics/INNOVATION%20NATION%20-%...
 
Description CAER team deliver bespoke seminar on co-production strategies to RCUK staff at Polaris House (arranged by NCCPE)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Dr Oliver Davis invited to present to AHRC Connected Communities Symposium on our project's award winning Covid-19 response 12/2/21
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description NCCPE Award highlights CAER Project as an example of best practice re co-production
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/blog/caer-heritage-project
 
Description AHRC Follow On funding - CAER Studio - exploring arts, culture & heritage through co-produced research
Amount £97,575 (GBP)
Funding ID AH/R006857/1 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2017 
End 12/2018
 
Description AHRC WW1 Engagement Centres Dustys War
Amount £15,000 (GBP)
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2016 
End 11/2016
 
Description Additional Funding for Hidden Hillfort Heritage Centre Staffing
Amount £20,000 (GBP)
Organisation The Moondance Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2021 
End 03/2023
 
Description All Our Stories
Amount £9,638 (GBP)
Organisation Heritage Lottery Fund 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2012 
End 11/2013
 
Description Arts Council Wales Small Grant
Amount £1,490 (GBP)
Organisation The Arts Council for Wales 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2015 
End 02/2016
 
Description CAER Connected
Amount £24,106 (GBP)
Funding ID AH/W00268X/1 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2021 
End 07/2022
 
Description CAER Model Village Project
Amount £19,973 (GBP)
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2016 
End 09/2016
 
Description CAER Time Travelling Fun Day - Summer of Smiles funding for young people events
Amount £4,817 (GBP)
Organisation Cardiff Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2021 
End 08/2021
 
Description Cardiff University Internal Arts and Social Studies College Funding to develop HLF Bid
Amount £67,857 (GBP)
Organisation Cardiff University 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 09/2016
 
Description Connected Communities Development Award (Heritage Legacies)
Amount £90,299 (GBP)
Funding ID AH/013193/1 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2013 
End 03/2014
 
Description Connected Communities Festival 2014 (Digging Communities: past, present and future)
Amount £51,352 (GBP)
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2014 
End 09/2014
 
Description Connected Communities Follow Up Grant (On Shared Ground)
Amount £39,476 (GBP)
Funding ID AH/013207/1 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2014 
End 09/2014
 
Description Connected Communities festival 2015 CAER HEDZ
Amount £9,990 (GBP)
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2015 
End 12/2015
 
Description Creative Cardiff Hidden Hillfort Co-produced art installation
Amount £2,000 (GBP)
Organisation Cardiff University 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2021 
End 09/2021
 
Description Curiosity Project: a 3 year youth project to develop archaeological exploration & experimentation through STEM subjects and est. youth group & open access after school club - employs 3 part-time posts at ACE
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation BBC Children in Need 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2019 
End 11/2022
 
Description Hidden Hillfort Project Delivery Phase
Amount £829,000 (GBP)
Organisation Heritage Lottery Fund 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2019 
End 04/2022
 
Description Hidden Hillfort Project Development Phase Grant
Amount £156,900 (GBP)
Organisation Heritage Lottery Fund 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2017 
End 05/2018
 
Description Impact Evaluation Funds for 2018 Excavation and activities inc. social science fieldwork
Amount £2,000 (GBP)
Organisation Cardiff University 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2019 
End 09/2019
 
Description Moondance Foundation funding for CAER community development officer post and other CAER activities
Amount £200,000 (GBP)
Organisation The Moondance Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2018 
End 11/2022
 
Description RCUK Schools Partnership
Amount £29,972 (GBP)
Organisation Research Councils UK (RCUK) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2016 
End 10/2016
 
Description Remodelling the Village - artist commission to develop exploration of social housing as heritage linked to impact evaluation of CAER Project
Amount £1,200 (GBP)
Organisation Cardiff University 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2019 
End 07/2020
 
Description Signage for Caerau Hillfort
Amount £2,800 (GBP)
Organisation Cardiff Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2016 
End 03/2017
 
Description Trek to Connect Project
Amount £5,000 (GBP)
Organisation City Region Exchange, Cardiff university 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2016 
End 10/2016
 
Description Unearthing Utopias: reflections on participatory heritage projects within disdavantaged communities
Amount £2,980 (GBP)
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2017 
End 09/2017
 
Description Wales and West Housng Association
Amount £70,000 (GBP)
Organisation Wales & West Housing Association 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2019 
End 04/2021
 
Title Co-production Strategies in Arts and Humanities 
Description The CAER Heritage Project is committed to producing research that involves participants actively in the co-production of knowledge and which values the contributions of all participants and partners. To date the project has involved a myriad of non-HE partners (primary and secondary schools, community groups, youth workers, community development workers, local residents, the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Story Museum, Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff Council etc) alongside academics, undergraduates and postgraduates from a range of disciplines at Cardiff (history, archaeology, social sciences). Co-production is a term becoming current in some European policy circles (Boyle and Harris 2009; Needham 2008) and in Wales, values of 'community' have long been the rallying cry of Welsh politicians (Rees 1997). Yet, too often, the concept of 'community' is approached by professionals and outsiders simplistically, lacking structures for on-going, systematic means of eliciting and hearing its 'differentiated solidarities' (Young 2002 in Amin 2005, 627). We did not approach the aspiration of co-production uncritically and are aware of the potential issues around power, politics and participation (Gallagher and Gallacher 2008; Holland et al. 2010; Bell 2013). A range of key strategies have therefore been employed within the Project to ensure meaningful co-production and mutual benefit between the wide range of academic, heritage sector and community partners involved. These include: community consultation and involvement in funding bids; the embedding of an academic member of staff (Dr. Olly Davis) within our partner community organisation ACE; the embedding of activities in the local secondary school curriculum; the establishment of adult learners courses with a view to facilitating educational progression; the creation of partnerships with a local youth centre and the National Museum of Wales to engage young people facing exclusion; training excavations and community outreach opportunities for university students working closely alongside community participants. The co-production strategies employed are based on well established principles yet the CAER team's approach to these principles and to co-evalution have been recognised as being innovative and potentially radical in relation to Arts and Humanities research (e.g. NCCPE Award & seminar delivered to RCUK) 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The CAER team's approach to co-production and co-evalution have been recognised as being innovative and potentially radical in relation to Arts and Humanities research for example the CAER Heritage Project was the overall winner of the NCCPE Engage competition and also won thier category of History and Heritage. The project was chosen from 230 quality entries across the UK, both Arts and Humanities and STEM projects. In the words of one of the judges the CAER project '...really did have it all'. Not only did the project make a profound impact on the community who got involved, it also profoundly changed the researchers, animating their work with new insights and expertise and reconnecting them to the educational mission that drives their work.' Winning this NCCPE award was a remarkable achievement given the number of entries received from across a range of discplines, moreover the CAER team were subsuquently invited to present on co-production strategies to RCUK staff in September 2014. 
 
Description 3 G S Development Trust 
Organisation 3G's Development Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution 3 G S Development Trust is a community development organisation in Merthyr Tydfil. The CAER team invited 12 participants from the 3 G S Men's project (for long term unemployed men) to visit the hillfort and handle artefacts from the CAER excavations in collaboration with local residents from Caerau and Ely. These participants from Merthyr then attended a trip to the Celts Art and Identity exhibition at the British Museum with residents from Caerau and Ely. This positive contact was cemented through joint participation in the Cardiff University funded Trek to Connect project which instigated the co-production of geocache heritage trails in Merthyr, West Cardiff and Cardiff Bay.
Collaborator Contribution 3 G S Development Trust staff facilitated contact and involvement for the Men's Project providing transport, support work and project development. They have also worked closely with ACE and the CAER Young People Opportunity project to provide opportunities for young people facing exclusion in connection with the Trek to Connect project.
Impact Geocache heritage trails. On-going partnership work.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Action in Caerau and Ely 
Organisation Action in Caerau and Ely
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Oliver Davis is an early career archaeologist and CAER Project co-ordinator. Olly completed his Ph.D. on Iron Age settlement and society in southern Britain, with a particular focus on hillforts and smaller defended settlements, in 2010. He is also the founder and co-director of the CAER Heritage Project and was embedded in community organisation Action Caerau and Ely for 2 days a week between April 2013 and April 2014, building partnerships and developing and co-ordinating the CAER project initiatives. The CAER project has grown from relatively humble beginnings in 2011 to become one of the key community projects of community partner organisation Action Caerau Ely (ACE).
Collaborator Contribution ACE is a community based organisation which aims to support the social, economic and environmental regeneration of Ely and Caerau. ACE staff have worked with the university staff, every step of the way, to plan the development of the CAER Project; providing access to a network of local community groups enabling the involvement of local residents in Project activities. ACE have facilitated further funding grant successes (e.g. HLF All Our Stories) and have ensured the CAER Heritage project is integrated into, and benefits from, 'Timeplace' (Ely and Caerau's timebank). The involvement and commitment of these various community organisations has ensured the Project's future beyond existing funding streams and is enabling activities to continue 'on the ground' while further funding grants are secured.
Impact ACE staff have worked with the university staff, every step of the way, to plan the development of the CAER Project; providing access to a network of local community groups enabling the involvement of local residents in Project activities. ACE have facilitated further funding grant successes (e.g. HLF All Our Stories) and have ensured the CAER Heritage project is integrated into, and benefits from, 'Timeplace' (Ely and Caerau's timebank). The involvement and commitment of these various community organisations has ensured the Project's future beyond existing funding streams and is enabling activities to continue 'on the ground' while further funding grants are secured. ACE have been involved in almost all CAER project initiatives and the outcomes and outputs from this fruitful collaborative partnership are so manifold that there is not space to record them here. They include Tribal Logos Project, Churchyard Detectives, extensive involvement in 2 Digging Caerau Community Excavations, the establishment of Friends of Caerau Community group and HEART of Cardiff Heritage Trails to mention a few.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Andrew Faulkner Associates 
Organisation Andrew Faulkner Associates Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The CAER Team have worked in partnership with architect Andrew Faulkner to develop a large Heritage Lottery Fund grant to establish a Hidden Hillfort Heritage Centre at Caerau Hillfort. This has included a field trip, a range of meetings and authorship of the bid document.
Collaborator Contribution Andrew Faulkner has provided advice and guidance and attended a range of meetings and a field trip, including the preparation of a RIBA proposal for a Hidden Hillfort Heritage Centre at Caerau Hillfort. In 2019 Andrew produced a structural survey of St Mary's Church on Caerau Hill for the CAER project and presented findings to community members.
Impact A Heritage Lottery Fund application which has been successful in securing development phase funding.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CADW 
Organisation Government of Wales
Department Cadw
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Cadw staff have attended project management and community meetings and have contributed access to and specialist knowledge about Caerau hillfort in relation to funding bids, research proposals and engagement activities.
Collaborator Contribution Cadw is the Welsh Government's historic environment service, which both conserves Wales's heritage and helps people understand and care about their history. Cadw staff have attended project management and community meetings and have contributed access to and specialist knowledge about Caerau hillfort in relation to funding bids, research proposals and engagement activities.
Impact In accordance with CADW directives, the CAER project has instigated an ongoing programme which involves community residents in monument conservation, vegetation management, litter picking and reporting incidences of vandalism and illicit metal detecting. Improved access and wide ranging project activities have improved foot-fall to the site which have resulted in increasing engagement from Cardiff Council and the local constabulary. The profile of the site and thereby its value as a community heritage asset have been dramatically enhanced.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Cardiff Archaeological Society 
Organisation Cardiff Archaeological Socety
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Learned Society 
PI Contribution Undertook a co-produced geophysical survey of Caerau ringwork . Co-produced interpretation of that survey was showcased on CAER web site and incorporated into existing co-produced heritage trail electronic resources. A short film about the project was co-produced with local film maker Viv Thomas.
Collaborator Contribution Cardiff Archaeological Society was established in 1960 Cardiff Archaeological Society and is a volunteer based society which seeks to foster interest in archaeology in the Cardiff area. Members of the society participated in project activities working alongside community members. The society also contributed a significant sum of £500 towards the project.
Impact A co-produced geophysical survey project of Caerau medieval ringwork with local schools and volunteers. The survey was followed by a competition to involve local people in the interpretation of the findings. This included school pupils from partner schools in Ely & Caerau. The winners of the competition were presented prizes by Welsh Heritage Minister Ken Skates at 2015 launch of their pioneer area initiative in collaboration with Cardiff University's flagship engagement project Healthy People Healthy Places: http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/schep/2015/05/28/back-to-the-future-pioneering-the-use-of-culture-and-history-for-community-regeneration/
Start Year 2015
 
Description Cardiff Council 
Organisation Cardiff Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution CAER project has worked in partnership with a number of Council Departments including Parks Services and Bereavement Services. This has involved consultation meetings, attendance at CAER community meetings, delivering heritage walks, facilitating clearance work and litter picking as well as Council staff being active participants in the co-creation of the heritage trails with local residents and young people. Cardiff Council are formal partners of the Heritage Lottery Funded Hidden Hillfort Project, Council representatives attend all management steering group meetings. The Council contributes significant match funding in kind to the project in terms of staff contributions on the heritage trails, site management and Love our Hillfort volunteer groups. The Council also proposes to contribute significant time and resources to the development of the heritage themed playground at the site to be constructed in 2020 (which links to CAER Studio as local artists from that project are involved in co-design work).
Collaborator Contribution CAER project has worked in partnership with a number of Council Departments including Parks Services and Bereavement Services. This has involved consultation meetings, attendance at CAER community meetings, delivering heritage walks, facilitating clearance work and litter picking as well as Council staff being active participants in the co-creation of the heritage trails with local residents and young people.
Impact Cardiff Council Parks Division have been involved in heritage trail clearance for both the All our Stories Project and HEART of Cardiff Heritage trails working with local people to clear overgrown vegetation and collect litter. Council Parks professionals have also worked closely with the CAER team and volunteers in relation to monument conservation relating specifically to the community excavations at the Caerau site.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Cardiff Council 
Organisation Cardiff Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Development of an information sign at Caerau Hillfort, co-produced with local participants, involved partnership meetings, co-production workshop and content design. Collaboration on Heritage Lottery Fund application for Hidden Hillfort Project, involved regular partnership meetings and authorship of bid application.
Collaborator Contribution Funding, producing and installing information sign at Caerau Hillfort. Regular partnership meetings to develop ideas and partnership structure for application.
Impact The first ever information sign to be installed at Caerau Hillfort detailing findings from the CAER Community excavations and an interpretation of the monument from the Neolithic to the medieval eras.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Cardiff West Community High School 
Organisation Cardiff West Community High School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cardiff West Community High School replaced the Western Federation secondary schools (Michaelston Community College and Glyn Derw High School) which have been longstanding partners of the CAER Heritage Project. The new £36m school has been completed on the Glyn Derw site.Head teacher Martin Hulland sits on the management team of the CAER Hidden Hillfort project facilitating close collaboration with the school's management team. The CAER Heritage team are currently embedding research into a range of KS3 curricula in the school and are implementing scholarships for a minimum of 4 local pupils. Pupils have been involved in co-producing plans for the new Hidden Hillfort Heritage Centre. The creation of heritage themed bee gardens and excavation of an Iron Age site adjacent to the school are also planned for 2019.
Collaborator Contribution Martin Hulland sits on the management team of CAER's successful HLF Hidden Hillfort project. The new build school includes a CAER Heritage suite in the post-16 block for 3 years where a range of research and outreach activities will take place. The School is working in partnership with the CAER Team to embed CAER Heritage research in the KS3 curriculum going forward, with £30k match funding in staff time given over to this from the school. An art installation representing the rich heritage of Caerau and Ely was installed in the learning suite produced by the CAER Studio project. A further art project to record a local heritage mural and produce a film about this was funded by the local education authority and involved CAER Studio artists.
Impact Curriculum development Art installations Museum exhibitions See CAER Heritage and CAER Studio Blogs
Start Year 2016
 
Description Glamorgan Archives 
Organisation Glamorgan Archives
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Glamorgan Archives staff have contributed to CAER project management meetings, community meetings and have co-delivered a number of CAER project workshops and initiatives including Churchyard Detectives and Poverty Detectives. The Archives have also contributed resources and expertise to the co-creation of the HEART of Cardiff Heritage Trails.
Collaborator Contribution Glamorgan Archives collect, preserves and makes accessible documents relating to the geographical area it serves and maintains the corporate memory of its constituent authorities. Glamorgan Archives staff have contributed to CAER project management meetings, community meetings and have co-delivered a number of CAER project workshops and initiatives including Churchyard Detectives and Poverty Detectives. The Archives have also contributed resources and expertise to the co-creation of the HEART of Cardiff Heritage Trails.
Impact CHURCHYARD Detectives Project (November 2012) 30 year 9 pupils from Glyn Derw High took part in this history/archaeology project which focussed on the modern historical context of the Caerau locality. Pupils were initially involved in fieldwork noting inscriptions from graves in St Mary's Church on Caerau Hillfort. Following this they undertook research with historians and archivists at the Glamorgan Archives, reconstructing the lives of those buried there in the 19th and early 20th centuries. From this research they produced project work and performative presentations which were delivered at the Cardiff Story event in February 2013. This project was embedded in Glyn Derw's Literacy and Numeracy curriculum for that class, a first for the CAER Project. The strategy of embedding co-produced research within the secondary school curriculum has subsequently been employed successfully within other CAER project activities; it has proved very effective in terms of cementing a close partnership with participating schools, enhancing project development and outputs and breaking down barriers to HE. Poverty Detectives Project (March 2012) 30 year 9 pupils from Glyn Derw High took part in this history project which explored child poverty past and present with a focus on the lives of 19th century children in the Cardiff area. The project was funded by £1k contributed by the Archives as part of the Welsh Government's tackling poverty initiative. The pupils worked with academic historians, archivists at the Glamorgan Archives and CAER project artist Paul Evans to creatively express their findings through the creation of time-travelling conversations enacted by puppets created by the pupils which were filmed. This project was also embedded in the literacy and numeracy curriculum. Dusty's First World War and Model Village Projects 30 year 8 pupils from Cardiff West Community High School researched the original plans of the Ely estate with archivists and this informed a project film and temporary museum exhibition at the Cardiff Story Museum.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Glamorgan Gwent Archaeology Trust 
Organisation Gwent Glamorgan Archaeological Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Glamorgan Gwent Archaeology Trust are partners on the Heritage Lottery Funded Hidden Hillfort Project. • Archaeological and historical research. • Monument conservation and curation. • Community co-production expertise, partnerships and networks. • Cardiff University research expertise and networks from a range of disciplines. • Curriculum development expertise and widening participation. • Student volunteer support.
Collaborator Contribution • Participation in 4 Management Committee meetings per annum to provide advice and expertise. • Advice and guidance on archaeological strategy and implementation in relation to community engagement and back garden excavation. Expertise offered • Professional archaeological fieldwork. • Monument conservation and curation. • Community archaeology, partnerships and networks.
Impact Influence of management decisions in relation to planning for archaeological outreach and field work. Delivery of GGAT staff at CAER Hidden Hillfort events.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Glyn Derw High school and Michaelston Community College (Federated) 
Organisation Glyn Derw High School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Glyn Derw have participated in a wide range of CAER project activities including: excavation, geophysics, artwork and workshops delivered in schools. Partnership with the management team at both Glyn Derw High school and their federated partner school, Michaelston Community College, has been particularly fruitful and these schools have embedded aspects of CAER's local heritage research into the curriculum including Digging Caerau excavations, Churchyard Detectives, Poverty Detectives and the co-creation of the heritage trail way marks.
Collaborator Contribution Both school management and staff have been engaged and involved in all stages of the project including funding bid consultation. Teachers have contributed significant expertise and ideas and facilitated a range of CAER Projects including Tribal Logos, Churchyard Detectives, Poverty Detectives, Digging Caerau Excavations and HEART of Cardiff Heritage Trails, community banner processions. School premises have been contributed for a range of activities including post excavation work and community meetings. The school canteen provided meals for the diggers during the community excavations.
Impact Tribal Logo, Geophysical Survey and Archaeological Activities (March 2012) In March 2012, 90 pupils and 5 teachers from 3 participating secondary schools, Glyn Derw, Fitzalan and Mary Immaculate High were involved in a range of activities at the Caerau hillfort designed to interest and invest them in the site and conduct research. These activities included artefact analysis and Iron Age pottery workshops. Pupils participated directly in a geophysical survey of part of the site with an archaeological professional revealing the boundaries and houses of the ancient occupants of this place for the first time. Inspired by Iron Age artefacts they had seen at a field trip to the National History Museum, St Fagans, the pupils designed their own tribal symbols with professional artist, Paul Evans, and then scaled up these designs to land-art dimensions within the hillfort, using safe and biodegradeable tree bark. This activity proved very successful in both interesting and positively investing young people with the heritage of the site. The large eco-graffiti tribal logos subsequently gently biodegraded into the landscape and - significantly - were not disturbed by the groups of young people who regularly visit the site outside of school. School participation in Timeteam excavation and Programme (April, 2012). As a result of the above activities, Channel 4's Timeteam, with whom our School had been having negotiations, agreed to work in collaboration with the CAER project to undertake trial excavations and produce a programme about the hillfort. We negotiated for 10 local pupils (from three participating secondary schools) and 3 local residents from the community to both participate in the excavation and appear on the programme. The overall benefits of this media intervention, generally, outweighed any short-term negative impacts. Indeed, these benefits were significant in terms of both research, raising the profile of the site and highlighting talent within the local communities. Community participants and the communities of Caerau and Ely more broadly, featured in a very positive light in the subsequent programme (which was broadcast nationally in January 2013). Timeteam episode viewing figures frequently exceed 1.5m in the UK alone and the programme is also broadcast in a number of other countries, giving wide exposure to both the communities and this little known archaeological site. CAER Project Exhibition (June 2012-February 2013) Following on from their involvement in geophysical survey, the creation of tribal logo artwork and Timeteam excavations 90 pupils from 3 participating secondary schools, produced displays of artwork, models, creative writing and historical perspectives on the Iron Age. Their coursework made up an exhibition which was displayed at St Fagans National History Museum in June 2012. The exhibition was opened by Mark Drakeford, Welsh Minister for Health and Social Services and Sian Price, series director of Timeteam. In January and February 2013 we took this exhibition on tour - first we were invited to the Welsh Government's Senedd building in Cardiff Bay by Mark Drakeford and then travelled onto the Cardiff Story Museum in central Cardiff later in February 2013. The then heritage minister, Huw Lewis, opened the exhibition at Cardiff Story and also launched Digging Caerau, with the exhibition remaining on display at the museum for 4 weeks. Participating pupils and teachers from the respective schools attended all of these exhibition launches and teacher feedback has highlighted the benefits in terms of pupil enskilment and confidence building. It is estimated that over 1,500 visitors viewed the exhibition across the three locations, once again significantly raising the profile of community talent and heritage assets in Caerau and Ely within the wider Cardiff context. CHURCHYARD Detectives Project (November 2012) 30 year 9 pupils from Glyn Derw High took part in this history/archaeology project which focussed on the modern historical context of the Caerau locality. Pupils were initially involved in fieldwork noting inscriptions from graves in St Mary's Church on Caerau Hillfort. Following this they undertook research with historians and archivists at the Glamorgan Archives, reconstructing the lives of those buried there in the 19th and early 20th centuries. From this research they produced project work and performative presentations which were delivered at the Cardiff Story event in February 2013. This project was embedded in Glyn Derw's Literacy and Numeracy curriculum for that class, a first for the CAER Project. The strategy of embedding co-produced research within the secondary school curriculum has subsequently been employed successfully within other CAER project activities; it has proved very effective in terms of cementing a close partnership with participating schools, enhancing project development and outputs and breaking down barriers to HE. Poverty Detectives Project (March 2013) 30 year 9 pupils from Glyn Derw High took part in this history project which explored child poverty past and present with a focus on the lives of 19th century children in the Cardiff area. The pupils worked with academic historians, archivists at the Glamorgan Archives and CAER project artist Paul Evans to creatively express their findings through the creation of time-travelling conversations enacted by puppets created by the pupils. This project produced some inspiring outputs and was also embedded in the literacy and numeracy curriculum. Digging Caerau Excavations (June-July 2013 and 2014) Glyn Derw High pupils and teachers were directly involved with the excavations with several classes undertaking archaeological fieldwork activities. More than 80 pupils, varying in age-group from Year 7 to Year 13 visited the site, over the two excavations, and worked in small groups with professional staff as supervisors. They were actively involved with various different on-site activities from excavation, sieving and finds processing, to more creative activities such as making Iron Age pots. School co-production of way marks logos (December 2014 to March 2014) In December 2013 Dave Wyatt and Paul Evans visited Michaelston College and Glyn Derw to brainstorm, design and develop the first two way-mark designs for the HEART of Cardiff trails. These intensive creative workshops focussed on 'Medieval Michaelston' and the 'Romans to the Races' trails. After a brief introduction, the young people made a series of quick thumbnail sketches. The young people then selected their favourite sketch and were given guidance on how to convert this design into a simple motif, suitable for stencilling. Two follow on workshops were delivered to the same classes in each school in March 2014. The challenge behind the workshops was to create transitory, witty works of art that reflected something of the heritage of the trail - creating ephemeral artworks and in situ images to populate our heritage trail resources. At Glyn Derw High we researched Roman motifs and made a series of thumb-nail sketches. We then visited the heritage trail in Trelai fields to create an army of buried legionaries emerging from the site of the Roman Villa on the Romans to Races trail. The young artists then made 3D graffiti models and placed these along the trail photographing them as they went. A similar workshop was also undertaken with the pupils at Michaelston Community College, this time themed on the medieval heritage of the location including St Michael's church. We decided that the door of the church would make an excellent 'portal' into the past - so we made one using interwoven twigs and branches. As at Glyn Derw, during the next stage of the workshop the young people made individual ephemeral artworks using modelling clay - again from the preliminary sketches based on Medieval motifs. The, tried and tested, combination of archaeological and historically themed art and direct physical engagement with local sites proved an effective means of investing and engaging a new group of young people in their local heritage whilst inculcating a range of creative and interpersonal skills. Way marking the Trails (April 2014) With the way mark logos complete the designs have been employed to create a series of plastic stencils that have been laser cut with the assistance of teachers at Michaelston Community College. Over April 2014 the community groups and school pupils involved in creating the way mark logos have walked each of their respective trails employing the stencils to make impermanent (chalk, scrubbing surfaces, grass cutting) and permanent marks (spray paint) at key points on the trails to mark the way. These way marks interface with a published trail leaflet and online HEART of Cardiff trail web resource for the trails which features artwork and other contributions of memories and knowledge from participating schools and community members. To ensure ongoing 'ownership' and engagement of co-creators and their trails both ACE and participating schools have agreed to organise bi-annual trail walks to litter pick, monitor access, vegetation clearance and to refresh the impermanent and permanent markers with the way mark logo stencils.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Grand Avenue Times 
Organisation Grand Avenue Times
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution HEART of Cardiff CAER team held a number of meetings and workshops with this mothers community group from North Ely based at Windsor Clive Primary School, Ely. There is ongoing contact with the group who continue to be involved in CAER events. This collaborative partnership was instigated through ACE and Oliver Davis' placement there.
Collaborator Contribution HEART of Cardiff CAER team held a number of meetings and workshops with this mothers community group from North Ely based at Windsor Clive Primary School, Ely. GAT organise community courses, activities and a regular community newsletter. GAT have engaged with a series of art and memories workshops and co-created one of the HEART of Cardiff Heritage trails: the Plymouth woodland walk. GAT continue to be involved in the CAER Project and contributed to the Connected Communities Festival Language as Talisman break out session with colleagues from Sheffield University.
Impact GAT co-designed, co-created and continue to be involved in one of the orbital HEART of Cardiff trails - the Plymouth Woodland Walk. The CAER team worked with GAT to create a 'layered map' of memories and reflections based on the group's knowledge of the local area. Fragments of a lively and dynamic conversation about Ely and Caerau were written onto transparent acetate squares and pinned in place onto a large (A0) 1:10,000 scale map of the area. The conversations were also recorded as audio files. Edited fragments of these conversations contribute to the trail's digital resources. This layered map strategy allowed us to plan the first stage of the heritage trail route - a loop from North Ely to St Fagans National History Museum and back through Plymouth Woods starting from the recreation ground at the end of Archer Road. We followed this route on a beautiful sunny day, about a week later with Ceri-Ann Gilbert from GAT as our guide. We later returned to GAT and co-designed a way mark logo for the Plymouth Woodland Walk. With the way mark logos complete the designs have been employed to create a series of plastic stencils that have been laser cut with the assistance of teachers at Michaelston Community College. Over April 2014 the community groups and school pupils involved in creating the way mark logos walked each of their respective trails employing the stencils to make impermanent (chalk, scrubbing surfaces, grass cutting) and permanent marks (spray paint) at key points on the trails to mark the way. These way marks interface with a published trail leaflet and online HEART of Cardiff trail web resource for the trails which features artwork and other contributions of memories and knowledge from participating schools and community members. To ensure ongoing 'ownership' and engagement of co-creators and their trails both ACE and participating schools have agreed to organise bi-annual trail walks to litter pick, monitor access, vegetation clearance and to refresh the impermanent and permanent markers with the way mark logo stencils. ACE will incorporate this into its Timebank programme with participants being rewarded with credits.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Healthy, Wealthy and Wise 
Organisation Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution HEART of Cardiff CAER team held a number of meetings and workshops with this retired persons community group based in Caerau at Trelai Youth Centre. There is ongoing contact with the group who continue to be involved in CAER events. This collaborative partnership was instigated through ACE and Oliver Davis' placement there.
Collaborator Contribution Healthy, Wealthy and Wise - A community group of retired individuals which undertakes a wide range of activities and is based in Caerau. They have been involved in a series of workshops to capture local memories and devise a timeline which has informed all of the HEART of Cardiff heritage trails.This community group also co-created a community banner and contributed significantly to the Connected Communities Festival banner procession event in July 2014 collaboration with Cardiff University's Representing Communities AHRC funded project.
Impact Over a series of workshops the CAER team worked with Healthy, Wealthy and Wise to co-create a timeline of memories written onto luggage labels that were ordered chronologically and then tied onto a 4m length of string. Some fascinating and poignant memories emerged from this workshop and these informed our planning and content for the heritage trail route and were incorporated into the digitasl resources for the HEART of Cardiff trails. Outputs from both of the community workshops were also subsequently displayed at the CAER Heritage Project/HEART of Cardiff Roadshow at the Ely Festival on 13th July 2013. Central to our presentation was another large map with the speculative HEART of Cardiff Heritage Trail route marked out in pins and coloured thread. Our first suggestion for the route was soon altered on the basis of local knowledge from a wide range of festival-goers. It was here that we were definitively advised that it might be best to break up the heritage trail into manageable circular sections around a central orbit. Members of healthy wealthy and wise then later took part in pilot walks of the Medieval Michaelston and Plymouth Wood trail orbits adding further local knowledge to the resources. They also helped to launch the trails and walked them with visitors to the HEART of Cardiff trail launch event. The trails interface with a published trail leaflet and online HEART of Cardiff trail web resource for the trails which features artwork and other contributions of memories and knowledge from participating schools and community members from this group. To ensure ongoing 'ownership' and engagement of co-creators and their trails both ACE and participating schools have agreed to organise bi-annual trail walks to litter pick, monitor access, vegetation clearance and to refresh the impermanent and permanent markers with the way mark logo stencils. ACE will incorporate this into its Timebank programme with participants being rewarded with credits.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Local Councillors Peter Bradbury and Elaine Simmons 
Organisation Cardiff Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Like Mark Drakeford AM, contact with local Councillors Peter Bradbury and Elaine Simmons, has been facilitated by ACE, Oliver Davis' placement there and through the CAER team's ongoing presence at a range of community events in the area (Ely Festival, Learning Showcases, School garden parties, ACE's AGM). These have allowed for an ongoing dialogue with both Councillors who have also visited both excavations.
Collaborator Contribution Local Councillors Peter Bradbury and Elaine Simmons, Caerau Electoral Division, have provided unwavering support to the project attending community meetings, events and facilitating CAER project activities within the Council and community contexts. They have also launched events including Ely Festival roadshow, Heritage Trail launch and co-produced films premiered at Caerau hillfort during the 2014 excavations. In addition, they have lobbied for signage to the Caerau hillfort site.
Impact Local Councillors Peter Bradbury and Elaine Simmons, Caerau Electoral Division, have provided unwavering support to the project attending community meetings, events and facilitating CAER project activities within the Council and community contexts. They have also launched events including Ely Festival roadshow and co-produced films premiered at Caerau hillfort during the 2014 excavations. In addition, they have lobbied for signage to the Caerau hillfort site.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Museum of Cardiff 
Organisation Cardiff Story
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The museum has hosted a number of CAER project events and temporary exhibitions and has contributed significant staff expertise. Regular meetings take place between museum manager Victoria Rogers sits on the steering group of the HLF funded Hidden Hillfort Project. The Museum is a key partner on the HLF funded Hidden Hillfort Project and will have a funded 1 year post commencing 2019 to develop interpretation at the site.
Collaborator Contribution Opening to the public in April 2011, the Museum is the hub for Cardiff's heritage and culture. It is a community and cultural venue, a location that celebrates Cardiff's heritage for tourists and visitors to the city, and a place that encourages active citizenship and active engagement with the area's history. The museum has hosted a number of CAER project events and temporary exhibitions and has contributed significant staff expertise. Museum staff have also contributed to funding bid preparation for Digging Caerau and HEART of Cardiff Projects and also contribited to workshops with Ely's Healthy, Wealthy Wise community group workshops as part of the heritage trail creation.
Impact The Cardiff Story Museum hosted the CAER exhibition co-produced with local school pupils in February 2013, this featured in the AHRC film. The then heritage minister, Huw Lewis, opened the exhibition at Cardiff Story and also launched Digging Caerau, with the exhibition remaining on display at the museum for 4 weeks. Participating pupils and teachers from the respective schools attended all of these exhibition launches and teacher feedback has highlighted the benefits in terms of pupil enskilment and confidence building. It is estimated that over 500 visitors viewed the exhibition significantly raising the profile of community talent and heritage assets in Caerau and Ely within the wider Cardiff context. CHURCHYARD Detectives Project (November 2012) 30 year 9 pupils from Glyn Derw High took part in this history/archaeology project which focussed on the modern historical context of the Caerau locality. Pupils were initially involved in fieldwork noting inscriptions from graves in St Mary's Church on Caerau Hillfort. Following this they undertook research with historians and archivists at the Glamorgan Archives, reconstructing the lives of those buried there in the 19th and early 20th centuries. From this research they produced project work and performative presentations which were delivered at the Cardiff Story event in February 2013. This project was embedded in Glyn Derw's Literacy and Numeracy curriculum for that class, a first for the CAER Project. The strategy of embedding co-produced research within the secondary school curriculum has subsequently been employed successfully within other CAER project activities; it has proved very effective in terms of cementing a close partnership with participating schools, enhancing project development and outputs and breaking down barriers to HE. Travel Back to the Iron Age @Cardiff Story week of family activities (February, 2013) In conjunction with the CAER exhibition at the Cardiff Story Museum, the CAER team, including 15 undergraduate volunteers, delivered a week of lunchtime family interactive activities during half-term February 2013 themed on the exhibition and the Iron Age in Cardiff. The museum estimates that 200 visiting parents and children from the Cardiff locality participated in these activities alone and highlighted that many of these visitors were first time visitors to the museum. This initiative also developed employability skills and provided networking opportunities for our undergraduate students. The Museum has co-produced and hosted two further temporary exhibitions: Dusty's First World War 2016 viewed by 3.5k visitors over 2 months and Hidden Histories of Ely 2018 viewed by 1.5k visitors over 2 weeks.
Start Year 2013
 
Description NMGW 
Organisation National Museum Wales
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Museum has been central partner in CAER project's community co-production activities from the project outset; contributing staff time, significant resources and access to the museum's facilities, collections and education expertise. This has included co-production and involvement in funding bids, the facilitation of community involvement in the Museum's Bryn Eryr Iron-Age Farmstead reconstruction project as well as involvement in CAER exhibitions, workshop delivery and co-creation of heritage trails. The CAER academic team have therefore fostered a close collaborative working relationship with a range of museum staff (Steve Burrow, Ffion Fielding, Owain Rhys, Loveday Williams, Adam Gwilt, Ian Daniel) with regular meetings and more focussed involvement on funding bids and project activities.
Collaborator Contribution St Fagans National History Museum is one of Europe's leading open-air museums and Wales's most popular heritage attraction with over 600,000 visitors annually. The Museum, which is located just 1.5 miles away from Caerau hillfort, has been central partner in CAER project's community co-production activities from the project outset; contributing staff time, significant resources and access to the museum's facilities, collections and education expertise. This has included co-production and involvement in funding bids, the facilitation of community involvement in the Museum's Bryn Eryr Iron-Age Farmstead reconstruction project as well as involvement in CAER exhibitions, workshop delivery and co-creation of heritage trails. The Museum's Iron-Age Demonstrator, Ian Daniel, was an integral team member on the HLF All our Stories Pathway to the Past Project and this involvement has subsequently developed into a sustainable partnership between North Ely Youth and Community Centre and the Museum to provide young people facing exclusion with new opportunities relating to heritage reconstruction. The National Museum Cardiff have also contributed expertise and equipment (including a wet sieve) and staff from both St Fagans and Cardiff have participated in community excavations.
Impact Tribal Logo Art Installation, March 2012 See school partners for details. http://caerheritageproject.com/projects/caer-logo-project/ CAER Project 1 day exhibition event, June 2012 and CAER Project 1 Month Exhibition, August 2012 in Oriel Un Gallery See school partners for details. http://caerheritageproject.com/projects/caer-heritage-exhibitions/ Pathway to the Past Mural, March 2013 (see CAER blog entries March 2013) Pathway to the Past was a CAER spin-off project funded by an All Our Stories HLF grant in collaboration with our community partners Action Caerau & Ely (ACE) - working with staff from the National History Museum, North Ely Youth and Community Centre and 10 local young people (aged between 14-16) experiencing exclusion from school. Over a period of several weeks the young people designed and co-created an Iron Age themed mural to signpost the trail. http://caerheritageproject.com/caer-blog/ Celtic Village Excavation Digging Caerau 2013 started with a training excavation for local people at St Fagans National History Museum in May 2013. Recent redevelopment of the museum meant that the museum's 'Celtic Village' (made up of 3 reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses) was demolished. This provided an opportunity for local people to learn basic excavation skills on a 'replica' Iron Age site before encountering the real thing as part of an accredited adult learner's course. https://www.facebook.com/CAERHeritageProject?ref=bookmarks Photos and Iolo Exhibition, July 2014 (as part of Connected Communities Festival) Photos and Iolo was a CAER Heritage Project exhibition format that was developed and co-produced by artist Paul Evans with pupils from Glyn Derw High School, National Museum Wales staff Loveday Williams, Owain Rhys and Ian Daniel, and CAER Heritage Project directors Dave Wyatt and Oliver Davis. Consisting of a series of re-usable pop-up banners Photos and Iolo was an interactive experience that encouraged viewers to get involved with the images on display by searching for the bard Iolo (or Ian Daniel, the Museum's Celtic demonstrator) - photo-shopped into images of Caerau and Ely that were taken by local residents. Once the participants have found Iolo then they are encouraged to take part in a riddle competition. These Riddles were created by pupils from Glyn Derw High School. The images featured came from a Barnardos project which took place in Ely and Caerau in the 1980s. http://caerheritageproject.com/caer-blog/ The Museum has facilitated ccommunity involvement in their on-going Bryn Eryr Iron-Age Farmstead reconstruction project. Social Science research on interactions between heritage professionals and community volunteers on this project is being undertaken by Dr Bella Dicks. https://www.facebook.com/CAERHeritageProject?ref=bookmarks#!/media/set/?set=a.766551610058157.1073741917.340199539360035&type=3
Start Year 2014
 
Description North Ely Youth Centre 
Organisation North Ely Youth Centre
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The CAER team, including artist Paul Evans and Ian Daniel (Celtic demonstrator from the National Museum of Wales), worked with 3 Youth Workers from the Centre to develop and devise a programme of heritage themed trips and create an art installation with a small group of young people facing exclusion. This required a significant number of meetings and close collaboration during the course of this small project. Contact has been maintained with the Youth Centre and other groups of young people have subsequently participated in CAER community excavations and Iron Age reconstruction at St Fagans.
Collaborator Contribution North Ely Youth and Community Centre (Pethybridge) is a multipurpose centre that has been at the heart of its community for many years. The youth programme responds to national and local directives as well as to the identified needs of the neighbourhood's young people. Pethybridge Youth workers and a group of 10 young people excluded from school undertook a series of heritage field trips and street art workshops and participated in the co-creation of an Iron-Age themed mural marking the pathway to the past heritage trail which was later embedded into the wider HEART of Cardiff network of trails.
Impact Pathway to the Past is a CAER spin-off project funded by an All Our Stories HLF grant in collaboration with our community partners Action Caerau & Ely (ACE) - working with staff from the National History Museum, North Ely Youth and Community Centre and 10 local young people (aged between 14-16) experiencing exclusion from school. Over a period of several weeks the young people designed and co-created an Iron Age themed mural to signpost the trail. The mural was designed and developed by the young people during a series of intensive street-art workshops devised by Paul Evans, in close collaboration with St Fagan's Iron Age expert and artist Ian Daniel. To set the context, the young people visited the Iron Age reconstructed hillfort at Castell Henllys in West Wales. Here they engaged in two workshops devised by Paul. The first, a digital photography activity, was based on the micro-montages of street artist Slinkachu, and the other was a variation on eco-graffiti activities that Paul had used to effect during previous stages of the project. In this instance, the young people left their outlines on the side of the fort - a biodegradeable impression of their visit. Back at the youth centre, the young people engaged in two days of drawing workshops, generating letters and figures that Paul and Ian developed into finished designs for council approval. The young people were then given a choice of five designs based on their ideas and motifs - with Ian's design getting the vote. The mural design features two Iron Age Round houses, 'Ely beans' and graceful 'celto-graffiti' lettering spelling out the word Caerau (meaning 'hill-forts' in Welsh). The A4 sized mural design was then scaled to full size - over 15 metres in length - and painstakingly applied onto the underpass and in masonry paint. The young people from the youth centre participated in the painting and added their own graffiti 'tags'. The resulting artwork constituted a vivid, direct, contemporary connection to the pre-historic past and has been incorporated into the wider HEART of Cardiff Heritage trails network.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Parent Power Project 
Organisation Brilliant Club
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Facilitated contact with community partners ACE and Cardiff West Community High. Co-establishing and attending event and working with Parent Power going forward in conjunction with CAER Scholarships programme.
Collaborator Contribution Hosting an event for parents in the community with our partners at ACE with ongoing support.
Impact Instigated by the Brilliant Club with Cardiff University the Parent Power Project will work with parents from approx 10 families in Ely and Caerau to establish peer support networks to break down barriers to Higher Education- this initiative dovetails with the CAER scholarships which have progressed 3 local young people on to degrees in Cardiff University in 2021.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Prof Marie Harder, Brighton University, Starting from Values Project 
Organisation University of Brighton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof Marie Harder's Starting from Values team have delivered a 1 day workshop to evaluate core values of CAER Heritage
Collaborator Contribution 1 day co-production workshop
Impact A report on the workshop.
Start Year 2018
 
Description RCAHMW 
Organisation Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Two RCAHMW staff interns assisted delivery of CAER project workshops over a one month period and were supervised by CAER co-director Oliver Davis. Oliver Davis maintains regular contact with RCAHMW professionals through his work with them on a seperate landscape project investigating the archaeology of Skomer Island.
Collaborator Contribution The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) is the investigation body and national archive for the historic environment of Wales. It has the lead role in ensuring that Wales's archaeological, built and maritime heritage is authoritatively recorded, and seeks to promote the understanding and appreciation of this heritage nationally and internationally. It is also a lead partner on the People's Collection Wales project a website which draws together the digital collections of the main heritage institutions in Wales and where the HEART of Cardiff Digital trail resources reside. Two RCAHMW staff interns assisted delivery of CAER project workshops over a one month period and the Commission has contributed considerable expertise in survey and recording and use of its archival material, including its vast collection of photographs, plans, maps, reports, drawings and LIDAR survey results.
Impact RCAHMW co-ordinate the People's Collection Wales project a website which draws together the digital collections of the main heritage institutions in Wales - this is where the HEART of Cardiff Digital trail resources reside. Two RCAHMW staff interns assisted delivery of CAER project workshops over a one month period, these staff both produced blogs on their involvement in the CAER Project on the RCAHMW web site. The Commission has contributed considerable expertise in survey and recording and use of its archival material, including its vast collection of photographs, plans, maps, reports, drawings and LIDAR survey results. in particular the LIDAR informed both Timeteam and community excavations and co-produced exhibition outputs including a model of Caerau hillfort constructed by pupils from Mary immaculate High.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings 
Organisation Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The CAER team are developing the first SPAB 'Wales Working Party'. This will go ahead in September 2020. Involves bringing together SPAB expertise and volunteers with local volunteers to positively enhance and help protect St Mary's church. Match funding is in kind.
Collaborator Contribution The CAER team are developing the first SPAB 'Wales Working Party'. This will go ahead in September 2020. Involves bringing together SPAB expertise and volunteers with local volunteers to positively enhance and help protect St Mary's church through infrastructural preservation and training. Match funding is in kind.
Impact Development of Wales working party. Proposed restoration work and training of local people at St Mary's Church Caerau.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Unity 
Organisation Unity (Community Group)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The CAER team meet on a regular basis (at least bi-annually) with Unity president Janine to discuss CAER activities and the contribution that the group might make to the CAER project and vice-versa. This close collaborative partnership was instigated through ACE and Oliver Davis' placement there. It has been cemented by a series of events with the wider group held at Unity's compound near Caerau hillfort. These include a small heritage fair in 2013 and Unity cooking a meal for all participants during the 2014 excavation.
Collaborator Contribution Unity is a local residents group consisting of all ages located at the base of Caerau Hillfort. Unity have contributed greatly to the CAER project over two years with logistical support, loaned equipment and local expertise.They have also participated in CAER events and excavations and hosted bespoke informal outreach events to develop closer links with the CAER team and Caerau residents living in the shadow of the hillfort.
Impact Unity have contributed greatly to the CAER project over two years with logistical support, loaned equipment and local expertise.They have also participated in CAER events and excavations (including the Iron Age BBQ, 2013 and Big Lunch event, 2014) and have hosted bespoke informal outreach events to develop closer links with the CAER team and Caerau residents living in the shadow of the hillfort. These include a small heritage fair in 2013 and cooking a meal for the entire excavation team in July 2014.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Wales and West Housing Association 
Organisation Wales & West Housing Association
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution During the development of the Hidden Hillfort Heritage Lottery Fund bid, Dave Wyatt and Dave Horton (ACE) met with Anne Hinchey, chief executive of Wales and West Housing association to discuss collaboration.
Collaborator Contribution Anne Hinchey, chief executive of Wales and West Housing association has provisionally agreed to support and provide funds for the development of a Heritage themed playground as part of the Hidden Hillfort project's plans for a heritage centre at Caerau hillfort should the HLF development phase bid be successful.
Impact To be developed over 2017-18.
Start Year 2016
 
Description Engagement activities and Co-production are embedded into all activities on the CAER Heritage Project across the 4 grants. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Engagement activities and Co-production are embedded into all activities on the CAER Heritage Project across the 3 grants. It is therefore not feasible to list them all individually within the context of this Research Fish submission page and a number of the question categories above are not appropriate to these CAER engagements which are co-productive and not dissemination to 'audiences'. To gain a sense of the breadth of engagement activities on the CAER Heritage Project then please view the Collaboration/Partners and other output sections (including art and creative) or visit the CAER Heritage Project web Page at: http://caerheritageproject.com/ or Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/CAERHeritageProject.

See also NCCPE Judges comments on the overall project: 'However what marks this project out is the commitment to co-production in all elements of the project design and execution. The dig has provided a focal point for so many other things. From the outset the project's key objectives were to employ archaeology and history to develop educational opportunities and to challenge stigmas and marginalisation associated with these communities. The project has involved community participants in a varie
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
URL http://caerheritageproject.com