Kim Wide
Kim is Founder and CEO of Take A Part CIC, an award winning co-commissioning model, developed and managed by communities – the Arts Action Group.
Kim built Take A Part from a pilot project initiated in 2006 to become an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. She has also established Take A Part Carlow (ROI) and We Create (Cheltenham) based on the Arts Action Group model of working. Additional strings to her bow are initiating the South West branch of the Social Art Network and founding Social Making – the UK’s only biennial symposium on socially engaged practice.
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