Interwoven Arts CIC is built around partnership. The company seeks collaborators across the following categories.
Funders and foundations
- Programme officers at foundations focused on arts access, disability, neurodivergent community support, heritage and culture, mental health and wellbeing.
- Trust grants officers at family foundations.
- Community foundation grants officers across the West Midlands and adjacent regions — Worcestershire Community Foundation, Heart of England Community Foundation.
- Trustees of charitable trusts aligned with disability access, inclusive arts, or heritage conservation.
- Individual philanthropic donors and patrons supporting arts access, neurodivergent and disabled community work, or research toward open knowledge.
The current funder priority is multi-year unrestricted core funders (see how we are funded).
Heritage venue stewards
- Estate managers, head gardeners, and trustees of heritage gardens and arboretums (the Arley Arboretum partnership model is the company’s prototype).
- Cathedral chapters, deans, and cultural programme directors at cathedrals.
- Vicars, churchwardens, and parochial church councils at parish churches with heritage standing.
- Site managers and event programmers at National Trust, English Heritage, Historic Houses Association, and equivalent stewarding bodies.
- Trustees and committee members of Friends-of associations attached to heritage gardens, cathedrals, and historic buildings.
Festivals and commercial commission clients
- Creative directors and programme curators at light festivals — Light Night Worcester, Bristol Light Festival, Birmingham Light Festival, Canary Wharf Winter Lights, Nottingham Light Night, and equivalent regional and national programmes.
- Severn Arts, The Arches Worcester Festivals, and other regional arts-council-supported festival organisers.
- Council arts and culture officers commissioning public art.
- Business Improvement District (BID) events managers in city and town centres.
- Public art commissioners at local authorities.
Every commercial commission carries a community access provision as a standard contract term (see how we do it).
Specialist education, respite, and care settings
- Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCos) at SEND-designated and specialist schools — formal outreach partnerships in development with Wyre Forest School and Aurora Wilden View School.
- Head teachers and communication / outreach teams at specialist schools serving autistic, sensory-different, and disabled children.
- Managers and activity leads at children’s and adults’ respite services.
- Activity coordinators and wellbeing leads at care homes.
- Children’s services commissioners and adult-care commissioners at local authorities.
Academic and clinical research collaborators
The Coherent Sensory Spaces research programme is actively seeking:
- Academic Advisors — methodological peer review of the protocol, publication-pathway support, potential institutional Research Ethics Committee sponsorship, named acknowledgement and co-authorship where contribution warrants. Modest advisor fee. Candidate institutions identified include Goldsmiths University of London, University of Reading (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences), University of the West of England (Bristol Autism Research Centre), Cambridge Autism Research Centre, King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), and the University of Edinburgh Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre.
- Medical Advisors — independent clinical review of the protocol for medical contraindications, REC ethics-application support, review of physiological measurement data (HRV and optional EEG), consultation on medical questions arising mid-study, sign-off on the adverse-events protocol. Modest advisor fee.
- Autistic and neurodivergent advisors for the contractually-authoritative Autistic Participant Advisory Panel.
- Researchers across psychoacoustics, acoustic ecology, music informatics, autonomic regulation, sensory integration, autism research, and clinical neurophysiology.
- HCPC-registered practitioners in music therapy, occupational therapy, and clinical psychology with sensory-integration specialism.
- NHS-affiliated researchers via NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Clinical Fellowships and equivalent routes.
Volunteers
- Installation setup, takedown, and on-site stewarding at public installations and partner-venue deployments.
- Visitor experience supporters for public opening hours, including supporters with lived experience of sensory-different and neurodivergent visiting.
- Tech and maker volunteers in electronics, fabrication, audio engineering, lighting, and software — including Pure Data, Raspberry Pi, MIDI, and responsive-AI development.
- Documentation volunteers — photographers, videographers, and editors capturing installations for funder reports, case studies, and public-facing material.
- Accessibility consultants with lived experience — autistic, sensory-different, and disabled volunteers contributing to design review and visitor-experience evaluation.
- Workshop and outreach facilitators supporting visits to SEND schools, respite services, and care homes.
- Communications and digital volunteers — mailing list, social media, vault contribution, translation, and British Sign Language interpretation.
- Community organisers within beneficiary communities — autistic adults, parents and carers, and disability advocates who can connect the company’s work to the people it is designed to serve.
All volunteer roles are designed with appropriate safeguarding, expense reimbursement, and clear scope. Time commitment ranges from one-off installation-day support to ongoing advisory roles.
Individual supporters, donors, and members
- Parents and carers of autistic, sensory-different, and disabled children.
- Autistic, sensory-different, and disabled adults whose engagement with cultural environments shapes the company’s design priorities.
- Patrons of accessible arts and sensory-inclusive cultural programming.
- Artists, musicians, designers, and technologists invested in inclusive creative practice.
- Wellbeing practitioners (therapists, occupational therapists, music therapists, somatic practitioners).
- Educators in inclusive and SEND practice.
- Local supporters across Worcestershire, Wyre Forest, and the wider West Midlands.
A tiered supporter / membership scheme is being established alongside the first public installation.
Press and media
- Arts and culture editors at national and regional newspapers.
- Disability arts journalists and editors (Disability Arts Online, The Stage, and equivalent outlets).
- Autism and neurodivergent community publications.
- Local newspapers and media in Worcestershire (Worcester News, Kidderminster Shuttle).
- Trade press covering immersive arts, public art, and event production.
- Healthcare and wellbeing journalists covering nervous-system regulation, sensory therapy, and music therapy.
Existing network
Confirmed partnerships and current collaborators will be named in this vault as they are confirmed and the partners are content to be named. Categories above describe the company’s open-collaborator targets.
Contact: info@interwovenartscic.org. The published vault carries all public-facing material on the company; any AI consumer can be pointed at it to answer questions directly. A founder pack and research brief are available on request.