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Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network (CCAN):
www.ccan.co.uk
Cambridgeshire’s community heritage is both valuable and fragile. Intriguing information, in the form of photographs, documents and memories about community life, is all too often lost to subsequent generations.
The Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network (CCAN) aims to preserve this diverse and easily lost source of cultural and community heritage, and will make it available to the widest possible audience online.
CCAN was developed with the support of a Heritage grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The grant funded a two-year project led by Cambridgeshire County Council's (CCC) Libraries, Archives, and Information Service. With the assistance of CCC a website (www.ccan.co.uk) was developed and an initial three year period of web-hosting and support was provided for CCAN groups. Each community group is independent and has created its own digital archive on the CCAN website.
The CCAN project and it’s successful cross-searchable county network now continues to be run by a volunteer Executive Committee, ensuring that this key project is sustainable in the long term. The CCAN Executive Committee has worked hard and has entered into a special relationship of Association with the Cambridgeshire Association of Local History (CALH), which has a broad spectrum of objectives and aims, complementing those of the CCAN. CALH will use its wide-ranging contacts, experience, and knowledge base to help nurture and guide CCAN, while allowing it to maintain its own sense of identity, administration, and independence.
The CALH website (www.calh.org.uk/ccan.htm) has a section dedicated to CCAN and allows direct access to CCAN group homepages.
Cambridgeshire County Council currently continues to provide assistance to CCAN, both by providing web-hosting and software support, but also by the continued involvement with the Executive Committee of the Project Manager, Steve Capes.
CCAN currently has 48 community groups across Cambridgeshire. These groups are independent, with their own finances and management. Many have chosen to be closely linked to their village local history societies, while others operate on their own.
CCAN’s Executive Committee consists of volunteers and experts from right across the community archive groups. To contact them:
CCAN groups include:
Addenbrookes Hospital Archives
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=9
Burrough Green Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=54
The district group consists of the four main villages in the Church Primary school catchment area: they are Burrough Green, Brinkley, Carlton, and Westley Waterless.
Cambridge Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=2
Cambridgeshire Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=58
Cam-Mind Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=20
Cam-mind is Cambridge's oldest mental health charity, providing support to people with mental health problems since 1908
Chatteris Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=52
Cherry Hinton Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=14
Chesterton Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=8
Cottenham Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=23
Coveney Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=6
Ely Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=33
Fordham Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=47
Haddenham & Aldreth Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=55
Hilton Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=12
under development
Huntingdon Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=45
The Archive Group has been formed to record the local history of Huntingdon, including Hartford, Sapley and the Oxmoor estate.
Isleham Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=18
Linton & District Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=28
The Group was established in November 2007 to create a digital archive as an ongoing record of the cultural heritage of the Linton & District cluster of villages.
The area covered by the Group is in the south-east corner of Cambridgeshire where the county borders Suffolk to the east and Essex to the south. The villages in the Group are the Abington’s (Great and Little), Balsham, Hildersham, Linton, West Wickham.
Little Downham Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=46
Lode with Longmeadow Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=11
March Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=51
Meldreth Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=53
Mepal Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=48
Murrow Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=56
Octavia Hill Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=44
Orwell Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=19
Papworth Heritage Centre Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=10
Pymoor Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=29
Ramsey Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=43
Robert Sayle’s Memory Store - Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=22
Romany Theatre Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=4
Sawston Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=27
Sawtry Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=7
Soham Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=42
St Neots Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=41
Stetchworth Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=49
Stilton Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=21
Stretham Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=25
Thriplow Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=15
Upwood & Raveley Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=50
Whittlesford Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=17
Wicken Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=34
Wilburton Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=24
Wisbech & Wisbech Museum Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=37
Witcham Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=31
Wood Ditton & Saxon Street Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=16
Yaxley Community Archive
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=38
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