Heads Together believes in:

• the transformative power of involvement in significant creative processes
• the power of creativity in effecting positive changes in social and community settings
• providing opportunities to develop everyone’s creative potential
• active creative collaboration between artists and other professionals
• achieving the highest quality
• productive partnerships with other professionals/agencies to effect long-term results
• the continued development of our own skills and art form practice

Heads Together respects:

• the equal importance of artistic and social aspirations
• the particular contribution people in communities make to the process, in partnership with Heads Together
• the need to understand the importance of the political, social, cultural and economic context within which we work

Heads Together will:

• develop imaginative, inspiring and meaningful creative work with people
• set up inclusive frameworks for involvement in creative work
• value individual identity
• maintain, along with project participants, a clear understanding of the purpose and aspirations for any programme of work
• exercise a duty of care regarding the impact a project may have on participants, communities and partners
• support the potential for individual and group progression

With acknowledgement to Jennie Hayes - January 2004