This article analyses the experience of a cultural education project comprising five “World War One Engagement Centres” created to mark the end of the First World War and explores how the components of community, democratic and flexible education can be used to turn commemorations into transmemorations. The Centres’ founding principle is commemoration and community remembrance and the article focuses on one Centre in particular, “Voices of War and Peace”, examining the political dimension of its commemorative activities and its institutional policies. The author finds that the Centre’s pragmatic pedagogical discourse is underpinned by dynamism and the inclusion of plurality in the creation and development of the projects. Overall, the article seeks to highlight the expectations of the social commitment projects organised by universities.