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Welcome to Northern Legacy

Northern Legacy CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise company whose remit is to document social & environmental change. Our projects typically integrate videography, still photography, visual narrative and oral testimony. Our aim is to generate highly creative outcomes, with a strong commitment to technical, visual and imaginative qualities that give our products added value.

As a means of mapping past and present for the future, one of our main objectives is to record change in social and/or physical environments together with local communities’ responses to such change. Overall, our approach involves coherent and systematic historical and cultural research conducted through participative appraisal (aka PA or PRA), with the aim of eliciting and interpreting people’s experiences, thoughts and attitudes in order to represent them accurately. As recognition of this collective experience we have a commitment, where appropriate, to engage local people directly in the production of photographic and video material and other documentary evidence for inclusion in a final archive.

Our clients include local councils, community health bodies, community groups and property developers. The outcomes of each project are devolved, where appropriate, to a publicly accessible archive in the local community, usually in the form of DVDs and photographs. Project material will also be published through this website, which provides a vehicle for community and public access to important and lasting documentation of a locality.

Through integrating still & moving imagery with oral testimony, our projects provide communities with a direct and powerful tool by which they can make their voices heard. Far more effective than dry reports, our DVDs and exhibitions are highly creative visual explorations of issues facing communities and are an excellent way to communicate with diverse audiences of all ages and cultures in order to generate discussion and dialogue.

Created on: 26/06/2007 Last updated: 13/10/2008