The project is sponsored by the Heritage Lottery Fund, The National Trust, The Crown Estate, and Historic England.
The project is currently led by Gustav Milne,[4] an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
The team, as of October 2018, consisted of nine with all additional support to archaeology projects being provided by volunteers.
[5][6] In 2018 they won the Arts, Culture, and Heritage prize at the Charity Awards 2018 – the Civil Society Media's annual awards programme to recognise organisations for their commendable charitable work[4] and were granted further backing by the Heritage Lottery Fund beyond their initial three year funding cycle.
[9] In 2018 CITiZAN team members joined the Channel 4 program Britain at Low Tide for its second series.