THE PARTNER-UP FUND
The Partner-Up Fund is currently closed for applications - please email applications@wetakenote.org to be put on the newsletter for future updates.
Sparking Connections, Creating Change
The Partner-Up Fund was designed to capitalise on the momentum and necessity for change prompted by COVID-19. It was created in the belief that organisations working together and co-creating within their communities can increase social impact, motivate participants in new ways and enhance artistic ambition.
THE PARTNER-UP PROJECTS
We’re delighted to announce that the Partner-Up Fund is supporting two collaborative projects, Fly The Flag and Bruk Up Stigma, that will tackle human rights issues and de-stigmatise mental health conditions through the arts. Each project receives £30,000 via Footwork.
In addition to the funding, the programme of strategic and practical support on offer from Partner-Up is designed to enable these two ambitious partnership projects to strengthen their collaborative practice and ultimately have greater social impact in communities than they would have been able to achieve alone.
Beyond this, we hope that projects like this build on the current momentum for cross-sector collaboration and represent best partnership practice that offers up new ways of working together, now and for the future.
Fly The Flag
Sparking new conversations between young activists in Belfast and across the UK, and with communities and audiences, about what it means to assemble and protest in positive ways. Ultimately, the aim is to increase awareness, understanding and ultimately protection for universal human rights.
The partners: A bold partnership between Amnesty International, UK theatre company Fuel, and Belfast’s Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), with young activists from different backgrounds across Belfast and the UK.
Bruk Up Stigma
Bringing young people across these urban and rural locations together through spoken word, urban music and underrepresented dance forms such as Bruk Up, to help them to make new connections, build confidence and break down stigma around mental health.
The partners: An international cross-sector partnership between local mental health services and charities for young people in Nottingham and West Cornwall - Trelya, Nottingham CAMHS Mental Health Support Team and Nottingham Children, Young People and Families Project - with New York dance group Bed-Stuy Veterans, and film producers We The Conspirators.
All about Partner-Up
128 partners projects applied for two £30k pots of funding
432 organisations across 136 UK and 14 international locations
Over 30 artforms
Successful groups will receive Take Note’s additional Connect programme of partnership support
Celebrating the other shortlisted Partner Up projects
5 projects were taken through to the final stage of the Partner Up application - they included:
My:Voice - A collaboration between Create Arts, Carers Hub Lambeth and MYTIME Young Carers in Dorset. Designed to connect professional film makers with young carers to co-create an animation to raise awareness of the issues they face and reduce their feeling of isolation and loneliness.
Bath and North East Somerset Film - A project that brought together partners across sectors including Creativity Works, AGE UK and Bath City FC Foundation. Open to older members of the community, and addressing issues such as social isolation, the project aimed to co-create and produce a film which showcased their lived experience and memories of the area.
STEAM Voices - An international collaboration between Winchester Science Centre and Dharohar in India, this project planned to work with children on either side of the globe, to strengthen their connection with the natural world and with each other, creating a sense of agency, empowering them to protect and heal our planet and building connections between communities and STEM industry.
TAKE NOTE TOOLS
Check out our tools and ideas for collaboration - all designed to support your partnership projects!
The Judging Panel
The panel included representatives from Take Note, Footwork Trust and Collaborative Change, plus three additional judges:
Gail Babb: A theatre maker, producer and lecturer at Goldsmith’s University who specialises in participatory arts, devising new work and supporting emerging artists. Gail is on the board of London Arts and Health Forum and was awarded a Clore Fellowship in 2017-18.
Nkhanise Phiri: An actor (Royal Court, National Theatre of Scotland), writer (Royal Court Theatre Writer's Group, Soho Writers Lab, Lyric Hammersmith) and creative with expertise in digital marketing.
David Souden: A consultant in heritage, impact, media and learning, and Director of Past Present, a consultancy organisation combining digital innovation, story-telling and visual awareness.
STAY IN TOUCH
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For press
Download the full press release about the Partner-Up-supported projects here.
Partner-Up is generously funded by ftwork:
Lead image: Kirkley Creates Partnership Project, Nick Ilott. Project images: Fly The Flag for human rights event © David Parry. Bruk Up Stigma - Jamal Sterrett. Gallery images: Partners from Catalogue of Collaborative Change.