Take Note

The Take Note: Connect programme supports organisations to deliver extraordinary artistic work together. They invited GUST to partner with them to deliver Take Note in Gloucester. The programme provided funding of £40,000 to support 2 partnership projects, with Take Note providing wrap-around strategic support and partnership tools to ensure the partners had the greatest possible impact. 

With our networks and insight into Gloucester organisations, we supported the application process, selecting 2 very different but equally inspiring projects to fund in March 2021. Connect, Collaborate and Create brought together Your Next Move with The Music Works, Barton Street Neighbourhood Policing Team, Prospects Youth Support Team, The Venture Playground and Friendship Cafe. Together they created a hip-hop project to shine a light on food poverty, working with young people, their families and the wider community to create sessions focussing on hip hop, beatboxing, MCing, DJing and graffiti. 

Creative Communities, New Perspectives was a collaboration of Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, GARAS (Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers), Inclusion Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire Carers Hub and Look Again to boost mental health and wellbeing through mindful photography and drama. Working with a wide range of people struggling with their wellbeing, the project culminated in an inspiring exhibition of the work at Gloucester Cathedral that ran throughout August 2021 to an audience of over 30,000 visitors. 

Using the learning from these projects, Take Note created a Collaboration Kit which can be downloaded here.  It’s full of tools and ideas to support arts partnership projects.