Conscious that the museum's social history collections did not reflect all areas of the Borough equally, Clifton Park Museum's project was designed to tap into the massive interest in local and family history within the borough of Rotherham.

A Community Curator was appointed to work throughout Rotherham to encourage local people to become involved as voluntary Community Curators. The Community Curator offered free training and loans of display cases, boards and recording equipment to anyone interested in learning the skills to produce their own exhibitions and oral history archives. Ongoing training, advice and practical help are still on offer.

Following the training, a number of community exhibitions grew out of the project. Harthill Village Hall was hired for a weekend in April 2002 for an exhibition by the Harthill Memories Society. So successful did it prove that it was accompanied by a school drama workshop about evacuees in the village during World War II and later led to another community photographic exhibition. The village now plans to create its own digitised community archive.

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