Excavate is a community storytelling company that has worked with many, many hundreds of people in dozens of towns and villages across the East Midlands and beyond to explore their culture, heritage, and sense of place. Whilst our work has largely been performance based – becoming known for much of our history for site-specific (and often spectacular) community plays – we have also made films, audio work, websites, festivals and text. Increasingly our work is engaged with academic research projects as our expertise in community engagement and storytelling has been used in all manner of settings and contexts.