Collaboration Kit
At Take Note we’re building a Take a Look & Take Action Toolkit. It’ll be full of tools and ideas to support your arts partnership projects.
Step one: get ready!
It’s all about setting things up together right from the start.
This tool has big picture and practical questions you might want to ask yourself and your partners as you get ready to embark on a collaboration.
Value collaboration
Working together can be transformative to the impact and ambition of your project.
These values help create the right conditions to allow your partnership to thrive. Would you add any others?
Map Your Impact
Defining your shared vision for a project and the steps you’ll take to get there is crucial in setting up a strong partnership.
Partnership Agreement
An essential first step in your collaboration. You’re welcome to use our handy template!
Keeping your project on track
We recommend at least three ‘Huddles’ through your partnership project - and here’s what you might want to cover in each one.
Kick-Off Huddle Tools
It’s all about having a clear plan from the start.
TAKE ACTION: COLLABORATIVE PROJECT PLANNING >>
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Check-In Huddle Tools
How is your partnership going? Are you all pulling in the same direction? Could anything change?
Wrap-Up Huddle Tools
Reflecting on what worked and what could have been better, harnessing your legacy and looking to the future.
Take Note’s Collaboration Tools & Ideas are kindly supported by Esmee Fairbairn Foundation’s Grants Plus programme. Design: Kyn Taylor (andkyn). Illustration: Lara Harwood.
The Tools have been informed and co-created through projects in partnership with: Academy for Impact through Music | Barton Street Neighbourhood Policing Team | Community Action Suffolk | First Light Festival | Friendship Cafe Gloucester | GARAS (Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers) | Gloucester Cathedral | Gloucestershire Carers Hub | Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | GUST | Inclusion Gloucestershire | Kirkley Pantry | Look Again Photography | New Philanthropy Capital | Prospects Youth Support Team | Stuart Burns | Suffolk Artlink | The Music Works | The Venture Gloucester | Your Next Move