Let’s Go Fly The Kite

Together Culture is excited to announce 'Let’s Go Fly The Kite', funded by the Heritage Fund.

The Kite has a rich heritage of collaboration and entrepreneurialism born out of necessity. The legacy is vibrancy and an openness that is still recognised by people who live in and frequent the neighbourhood, but cannot put their finger on why it exists.

It’s a rich culture upon which to build a community mindset that creates a future of collaboration and entrepreneurialism that can be shaped by opportunity and a healing of class division - or, ‘town versus the gown’. 

That’s why Together Culture, Anglia Ruskin University and the Cambridge Room are working together on the ‘Let’s Go Fly the Kite’ project funded by the Heritage Fund. We will gather people in a citizen science project to reveal the history of the Kite, create a roadmap for how the people who live, have lived in and frequent the Kite wish to build upon their ingenious heritage to shape the future.

  • ‘The Kite’ refers to an area in central Cambridge where the boundaries look like a kite. Built in the 19th century to attract workers to power the University, residents of The Kite were prohibited from using City Centre amenities.

    Out of necessity, a culture of inclusion, ingenuity, and cooperation emerged. Progressive mindsets enabled the opening of the first municipal birth control clinic in England, elected some of our first female leaders, and cultivated a nationally important cooperative movement.

What’s your story? What does The Kite mean to you? What have you learned from relatives, friends or neighbours from times gone by? 

You might live here, visit here, or just know something about here. Your story will help us shape our future.

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Using money raised by National Lottery players, The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports projects that connect people and communities with the UK’s heritage.

Let’s Go Fly the Kite is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we are able to engage our community in rediscovering, sharing, and celebrating a story of Cambridge in which those who have been socio-economically marginalised can identify.