Become a Partner
Why don't you become a partner?
We work with our partners to create opportunities for our network of over 90,000 people. You could work with us and use this resourse of some of the most creative people in the UK.
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Other people we've worked with
We also work with other organisations to bring our members unique opportunities.
Past Partners
We've worked with some fantastic organisations over the years. Read about some of our great past collaborations...
 The Roses are our fearless fundraisers, undertaking superhuman feats to support IdeasTap. Find out what they're up to next here.
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The National Youth Theatre inspires, trains and showcases epic young talent aged 14-25. NYT was the first youth theatre in the world and each year stages brave new work and reinterprets classic stories on leading stages, in stadiums and at iconic sites both at home and abroad.
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The National Student Drama Festival has been at the heart of the UK theatre industry for over 50 years. NSDF discovers, nurtures and promotes the very best new young talent. It is a truly unique national festival with productions, participants and professionals from across the UK joining for a week of performances, workshops, masterclasses and training.
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Magnum Photos represents the world's leading photographers. Its international offices provide photographs to creative industries around the globe. Committed to developing skills and opportunities for the next generation, Magnum works with IdeasTap to deliver opportunities for emerging photographers, from the Photographic Award to Magnum Showcase and Professional Practice weekend events. Leading figures from the photo industry advise emerging photographers how to keep their skills sharp and the commissions coming.
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The BFI is the lead body for film in the UK, with the ambition to create a flourishing film environment in which innovation, opportunity and creativity can thrive. Future Film is the BFI's programme aimed at 15-25 year olds who are passionate about films and filmmaking. Future Film works with IdeasTap to offer exclusive opportunities to our membership of emerging film makers.
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HighTide Festival Theatre is a national theatre company and engine room for the discovery, development and production of exceptional new playwrights. HighTide receives, considers and produces new plays from all around the world, every play is read and the festival is an eclectic mix of theatre across several venues in Halesworth, Suffolk.
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mac birmingham exists to make participation in innovative, creative arts activities an important part of people's lives. Since 1962, mac birmingham has introduced over 10 million people to the arts and is part of the fabric of the community for people of all ages, abilities, and walks of life.
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Sky Arts offers an eclectic mix of the best contemporary and classical music, arts, biographies, chat shows, film, drama and comedy across Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 2 daily. Sky Arts also seeks to connect with culture on the ground, supporting and investing in the best of innovative arts from leading organisations to emerging artists in the UK and Ireland.
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Emerging artists are at the heart of everything the Roundhouse does - as board members, programmers, artists and broadcasters. Its creative programme of opportunities for 11–25 year-olds is based on knowledge-sharing and collaboration between today’s professional artists and the next generation of musicians, performers, and creatives. Much of this work happens in the Roundhouse Studios – a dedicated suite of 24 industry-standard creative studios that sits beneath the venue’s iconic Main Space.
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One KX provides exciting opportunities for young people to connect, create and collaborate through arts, science and technology. We run drop-in sessions, classes, workshops and all kinds of projects for you to participate in from drama through film-making, photography and more! We also run drop-in and evening sessions for local young people. We are part of Central YMCA, the world’s first YMCA.
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Brighton Fringe is the largest arts festival in England taking place every May. It sets out to stimulate, educate and entertain a wide audience by providing a showcase for diverse art forms. No artistic judgment or selection criteria are imposed on participants, enabling the development of both new and established work to attract fresh audiences, press and promoters. Brighton Fringe will run from 4 May - 2 June in 2013.
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The Bush is a world-famous home for new plays and an internationally renowned champion of playwrights and artists. We discover, nurture and produce the best new playwrights from the widest range of backgrounds. We look for fresh new voices to help us tell stories that are both provocative and entertaining.
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Since 2007 The Heritage Arts Company has created cultural events that rouse the public imagination, through both creating its own work and producing work by other artists. Using spectacle to inform, to teach and to entertain, we aim to unite people through shared storytelling. We offer creative guidance, ingenuity and originality. We are an arts company. This means we've committed to undertake all sorts of mediums and artforms. It depends on the message. Our guiding principles are equality and honesty. Above everything else.
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Flatpack is a festival which takes over venues across Birmingham every March. It draws people from far and wide with a mixture of films, performances, contraptions and surprises, and has been described as "magnificently eclectic" (Time Out), "joyously inventive" (the Guardian) and "the UK’s most creatively curated film festival" (the Independent).
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Metro Imaging is the UK's number one professional photographic lab providing specialist printing, exhibition, creative retouch and film services to the photographic industry.
Metroprint, the online arm to Metro is designed to make available Metro's high-level of investment and expertise to all photographers, providing remote expertise and 24 hour ordering at very affordable prices.
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Mardibooks recognise how difficult and isolating the world of publishing can be and are very pleased to be able to partner IdeasTap and offer their support as writers, editors and publishers to ideas tap members.
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The National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural exists to make sure that creative skills in the UK are top notch; not just up to date but the best, way ahead of the rest. The Skills Academy is a membership network of over 200 theatre and live music employers and 20 further education colleges throughout England. They recognise, develop and improve skills opportunities for those entering the creative and cultural industry and those already employed within it.
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The National Theatre stages over 20 theatre productions a year. There are three theatres - the Olivier, Lyttelton and The Shed - and we present a mix of new plays and classics, with up to six productions in repertory at any one time.
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The Lyric Hammersmith is West London's largest producing theatre. Over its hundred year history it has been responsible for creating some of the UK’s most groundbreaking theatrical work whilst also gaining a national reputation for its work for children and young people.
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Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival is the UK's longest running competitive platform of its kind and the country's leading gateway to prestigious awards. Championing new talent, the festival is one of the world's best-known showcases and breeding grounds for emerging creatives.
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From its beginnings in a small kiosk in Birmingham’s Bullring, Ikon's reputation for innovation, internationalism and excellence has developed over 40 years. Learning is at the heart of Ikon's activities, stimulating public interest in and understanding of contemporary visual art.
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The Lowry, at the heart of the redeveloped Salford Quays in Greater Manchester, is a flagship arts venue bringing together a wide variety of performing and visual arts under one roof. Through partnering with IdeasTap, The Lowry will source and provide commission opportunities to local, regional and national performing and visual arts, playwriting and photographic talent.
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The New Diorama Theatre, an 80 seat performance space located in central London, is co-developing with IdeasTap various opportunities to support, mentor and fund young theatre makers.
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Rose Bruford College, based in Sidcup, is one of the UK's leading drama schools, offering courses in Performance, Design, Management and Technical Arts.
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Spread The Word support the development of new creative writing and live literature in London. Through IdeasTap they offer professional development and mentoring opportunities such as 100 words with Spread The Word (insert link) as well as free places to a selection of their workshops and events.
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Writers' Centre Norwich is a literature development agency based in Norwich. We are interested in both the artistic and social impact of creative writing, and work with writers, readers and diverse communities on a wide range of ongoing and one off projects and events.
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Mother is a creative company with offices in London, New York and Buenos Aires. Originally founded around a kitchen table in 1996, Mother are recognised as one of the world’s most creative companies working with iconic brands such as Stella Artois, IKEA, Boots and PG Tips amongst many more. They remain fiercely independent.
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