We are a collective of community workers, researchers, artists, activists and driven individuals actively pursuing the idea that a collectively imagined better and fairer world is possible, through collective, creative community engagement.

Our aims…

• To support each other and groups with similar aims, whether as community workers, artists, academics, activists, promoting an ethos of mutual care and responsibility: Collective responsibility, co-working and skill sharing, is fundamental to how Magnetic Ideals has evolved, we prioritise partnership over competition.
• To develop skills to increase participation of under-represented groups and build the capacity of community groups to support them: Capacity building, active development. Running accessible activities in skills that are in demand by individuals who are under-represented and/or excluded, and the community organisations and unions that work with and support them.
• To develop a shared sense of community through the use of the arts: Running art projects which build new communities and strengthen existing ones.
• To use creative approaches in research to encourage cultural exchange and grassroots mobilisation: facilitative and creative approaches, dialogue. Working reciprocally with individuals, artists, community groups and unions to make links across borders and barriers. We want to facilitate dialogue that develops knowledge and understanding of difference.
• To actively engage with sustainability and promote ethical environmental choice in an era of climate crisis: Creative autonomy, sustainability and ethical choices are the foundation of our ethos. We believe that to make ethical choices that the voices of all members of a community should be heard and that active steps need to be taken to ensure traditionally marginalised voices are centred in debates.