We are excited that you have agreed to work with Hidden Keileon CIC and and we hope to make our collaboration as positive as possible, associated with a vision of creating freedom, justice and futures for all. We strive for healthy, creative collaborations that respect diverse individuals. We offer a high level of autonomy and trust to our collaborators, which comes with a volume of responsibility and accountability.

Our intention is to work with kindness and consideration and to value the wellbeing of everyone involved in the collaboration. As we decide to collaborate with you, we invite you to join this path we are walking together, towards rehearsing freedom and justice for all in our projects. We trip and stumble, but we keep learning and unlearning. We hope to build sustainable collaborations, focusing on long-term benefits rather than short-term gains.

We intend to build regenerative and nourishing working relationships with you. We invite all our collaborators to:

• Recognise the fatigue and pain we are all experiencing in this late-capitalist hyper-growth world and be gentle with each other;
• Listen with minds and hearts, and acknowledge multiple truths could happen simultaneously;
• Set clear boundaries for yourself to avoid oversharing, and respect others’ boundaries;
• Communicate kindly, transparently and clearly - always in good manners, kindly and non-violently, and with good intentions;
• Actively practise solidarity and meaningful relationship building through creating an ecosystem of care, continuous learning and knowledge sharing;
• Uphold pro-migrant and pro-queer worldviews where everyone deserves to be free and treated with justice.

We are a freelancing team with limited resources, yet we strive to be effective and caring in all our collaborations. We will try our best in time management, expectation management and communication. We also appreciate your consideration when things do not happen as expected and your patience when we resolve conflicts collectively.

We aim to work with you to ensure our collaboration is a mutually enjoyable, healthy and safe experience. Our approach:

• We understand that all individuals work differently, and where reasonably possible, we will try to support different ways of working and communicating;
• We will communicate openly and honestly with a view to understanding how you like to work effectively and what we can do to support that;
• Before we start working together we will talk through the parameters of the work and plan together to ensure that our expectations are clearly defined and mutually agreed – and we will revisit this through the collaboration;
• We encourage innovative ways of thinking and working while we challenge ourselves, our thinking and our practice;
• We recognise that we won’t get everything right all of the time, and we encourage you to feedback to us on how we can improve our ways of working.

These Principles for Working Together are intentions, not legal binding commitments. If you think our principles could be improved, please feedback to us as we are always striving for continuous improvement.

Additional consideration:

We are committed to Access, Diversity and Inclusion and strive to make our programmes as accessible as possible for a wider audience. We will try to work with you to maintain the integrity of our projects and ensure that all audiences can engage with our work. Please read the following guidance document carefully: Hidden Keileon’s Safeguarding children, young people and adults at risks policy.