Advocacy

Sixth Sense is committed to sustainable strategic development through partnership working. 

Our partners include:

Artsmad 
www.artsmad.org.uk

This organisation establishes a strategic development plan for youth arts and arts in education within Swindon. we are a member of the steering committee of Artsmad, and also a key partner in the successful £1.3 million Invest to Save DCMS action research project.

Wiltshire and Swindon Arts Alliance (W&SAA)
www.wsaa.org.uk

We support W&SAA, a united voice for the arts in Wiltshire and Swindon. It provides a strategic overview and co-ordinating mechanism, adding value to artistic organisations and infrastructures.

TheatreWorks
www.theatreworks.org.uk

We also support the Arts Council's Swindon and Wiltshire Theatre Locality Plan at steering committee level to help art form development initiatives and any projects which support local professional theatre practitioners. This plan promotes partnership working and networking opportunities with theatre producers, regional venues, artists and funders.

Independent Theatre Council
www.itc-arts.org

As an approved manager, we work with this body that advocate on behalf of 600 arts organisations and develops best working practices for managing the arts.

TYA UK
www.tya-uk.org

We are members of TYA UK and are represented on the Steering Group. This role of this organisation is to: Advocate for theatre for young audiences to be an entitlement for   children throughout the world, act as YPT think-tank and inform debate, act as local and national ambassadors for the YPT sector, gather information and concerns and report them to ITC and the Steering Group.  We are also lead on developing a 3 year Development Plan for TYA UK.

We have also worked with the following companies on co-productions and residencies:

Trading Faces

Watermill Theatre Company

Trestle Theatre Company

Collaborators Theatre Company

Cheltenham Everyman
Theatre Reach Inclusive Arts

Salisbury Playhouse

Jactito Theatre

Hoodwink Theatre Company

Swindon Arts Centre
Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company

Wyvern Theatre

Royal Shakespeare Company
Greenwich & Lewisham Young People's Theatre