WWF: Our Ingleborough

The aim of the project was to engage the community in discussions around the past, present future of the land surrounding Ingleborough. The Our Ingleborough project set out its aims in January 2022 and completed everything in the brief which included the following:

• A research and development process which included influential members of the local community. • The implementation of 3 workshops with a variety of age groups. • Grants for local artists and children. • The production of a short film. • Oral Histories recordings to be developed into a podcast. • A VR/360 video. • Travelling exhibition.

Direct participants

Settle Primary: 30, Ingleton Primary: 30, Community filmmaking project: 46, Oral Histories: 13, Total: 119

Media coverage: Craven Herald, Yorkshire Post, Dales Radio, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Life Up North, Settle Victoria Hall, www.settle.org.uk, Richmondshire Today

Secondary participants:

Exhibition attendance: 150+, School Screening: 100, Estimated online engagement: 10,000+, Voices from the Dales: 4,000+, Online film plays: 5,000+, Our Ingleborough Festival: 1,000+

Quotes:

“The documentary was such a strength in pulling together all those opinions”

“It was good to see a lot of different people represented and I think it really highlighted how important it is to balance between these people with their families that have lived there for generations and the requirement that we have to do something about the state of the climate”

“[the film made me think] about the dichotomy of farming vs re-wilding and all the rest; whether it will work, whether it should work, that kind of thing”