Get It Done

Get It Done is a community arts organisation based in Manchester and London. We have a track record of enabling young people and communities to thrive.

Since 2017, we have been working directly with communities to spark lasting social change and training young people to become creative leaders. Get It Done works directly with communities to facilitate creative projects, workshops and events to create measurable social change, and upskills young people with the tools to lead impactful projects themselves and professionalise their creative practice

s. Born in 2017 out of a frustration at a lack of creative opportunities in Manchester, and how young people were being left out of the important conversations being had around the city, Get It Done was formed on an ethos of collaboration, innovation and participation, with a mission to make grassroots tools for creative arts accessible to everyone, to start their own thing, to get it done. Since 2017 we have worked with a vast range of partners to deliver impactful creative social projects; including producing a two year creative campaign platforming the experiences of people using foodbanks with Manchester Central Foodbank, running critical thinking programmes for young people with diverse experiences at Manchester Art Gallery and co-ordinating arts festivals filled with performances, live art, workshops and talks. We are constantly on the look out for new creatives and organisations to collaborate with - particularly now in London. If you are interested in discussing further a project or our experiences, do not hesitate to get in contact through DM or [email protected].

30/07/2026

After shaping our approach to the project and discussing how culture and the arts can respond to the climate crisis, we started sharing some different methods to encourage participation in public spaces.

Aks Aks Creative Hub introduced their Dream It, Walk It, Order It activities, using creative interventions to help communities imagine and shape the future of their public spaces. And Get It Done shared their bottom-up approach to participatory projects, alongside their experience producing temporary interventions in public settings that encourage people’s agency, confidence and collective decision-making.

Our project assistant Rongwei also presented a selection of inspiring climate projects from around the world, including heirloom seed libraries, international peace walks, creative ecological research platforms and exhibitions about boglands!

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Projeye yaklaşımımızı şekillendirdikten ve kültür ile sanatın iklim krizine nasıl yanıt verebileceğini tartıştıktan sonra, kamusal alanlarda katılımı teşvik etmeye yönelik farklı yöntemlerimizi paylaşmaya başladık.

Aks Creative Hub ve Get It Done ekibinin yürüttüğü oturumda, çalışmalarımızın temelini oluşturan katılımcı yöntemleri birbirimizle paylaştık. Aks, toplulukların kamusal alanların geleceğini birlikte hayal etmelerini ve şekillendirmelerini destekleyen yaratıcı müdahalelerden oluşan Dream It, Walk It, Order It yöntemlerini tanıttı.
Get It Done ise katılımcı projelerde benimsediği aşağıdan yukarıya (bottom-up) yaklaşımını ve insanların kamusal alanlarda söz sahibi olmalarını, özgüven kazanmalarını ve kolektif karar alma süreçlerine katılmalarını teşvik eden geçici mekânsal müdahaleler üretme deneyimlerini paylaştı.

Proje asistanımız Rongwei de dünyanın farklı yerlerinden ilham verici iklim girişimlerini tanıttı. Ata tohumu kütüphanelerinden uluslararası barış yürüyüşlerine, yaratıcı ekolojik araştırma platformlarından sulak alanlar (boglands) üzerine hazırlanan sergilere kadar pek çok etkileyici örnek üzerine konuştuk.

28/07/2026

Wow! We got a lot of love on our inflatables yesterday, but also a lot of questions about coming along to Young V&A

The people must know! So, we shall be at Young V&A on Wednesday (5th August) for National Play Day 🛝

We will be taking over the Build It area from 11-3pm, making a giant inflatabubble! Children both old and young can decorate their very own patch, and we will bring them all together to inflate into a mega bubble. That’s the plan! Lots of sticking, cutting, decorating, inflating, bouncing to do.

We also have many sensory objects to play with, plus there are lots of other great people and orgs working across the museum. Check the link in our bio for more.

No ticket required! Just a zest for fun needed.

📸 Some great pics of our recent time at Art on our Doorstep, Croydon Contemporary Arts Festival.
Photo: Chris O’Donovan for Croydon Council

27/07/2026

Shoutout Rochdale Town Hall for being the coolest looking venue we’ve ever worked in?!

A lot of fun bringing our inflatable workshops to Playtime for Rochdale Borough Council in June! We’ve toured the inflatables across the UK for three years now, transforming plastic waste into inflatable sculptures made collectively by children. It’s still as fun as day one.

But with each new city, the inflatables grow a little more. This summer it’s been exciting to start shaking it up a little with new formats, new ideas and new materials.

And in August we’re verrrrry excited to be bringing them to Young V&A! 🌀

18/07/2026

HOLA! Very excited to have been selected by Placemaking Europe for an intense month-long residency in Valencia this July.

Working in an area devastated by the 2024 Valencia floods, the five residents will be transforming an outdoor public space of around 1,000 m² into a playground and temporary climate shelter.

Working alongside creative architects and designers, will be providing artistic direction. We will be making a water-play installation, mobile shade structures, hanging gardens, murals and gamifying the site through small interventions. Our process is participatory, bringing in local children, teens and residents to shape designs, and embedding local identity and history into our creations.

This site is huge and heavily damaged from the floods, plus we’re working on-site in 40c heat… and in Spanish. But the biggest challenge is navigating the context; working with a community facing the complex aftermath of natural disaster, where sensitivity and meaningful collaboration is key to the approach.

We’re two weeks in, but I’m being pressured into making a reel. So, ya gonna get a series soon.

Excited to be working with this star team!

06/07/2026

We’re in a book! And it’s about feminism and walking 😍

A lovely thank you to Dr Morag Rose for including our project Placemaking Piccadilly in her book, exploring how women claim their place in public space.

Morag speaks about our project Placemaking Piccadilly (2021-22), a community arts campaign led by Get It Done and Manchester Central Foodbank Manchester Central Foodbank dreaming up a new vision for Manchester’s central square; one that is inclusive, accessible and enjoyable for all.

We began the project with a drawing workshop - working with community groups and charities to ask, how would you redesign Piccadilly Gardens? And people had a lot to say! Ideas ranged from the serious (allotment, community hubs) to the silly (wave machine and wrestling ring). Responses were transformed into a tapestry by artist Freya Bruce.

Over a year, we led a series of public space interventions; sketch walks, city tours by people with experience of homelessness, an activist music festival (!), covering the whole square in chalk flowers. Our campaign ended with an exhibition at HOME, presenting our manifesto for a new Piccadilly Gardens to Manchester City Council.

27/06/2026

This weekend we are at Rochdale Town Hall for Playtime! 🫟

Back transforming public buildings into DIY inflatable playgrounds, today (Saturday) we will be in the Grand Hall leading a sensory SEND session from 1-4pm, and tomorrow we will be open to the public from 10-4pm drop-in.

Lots of ways to get involved for all ages, from cutting, sticking, taping, constructing, assembling, doodling, squishing and of course playing.

So bring any recycled plastic bags or waste and let’s build a giant inflatable sculpture together!

Rochdale Borough Council

Photo: Chris O’Donovan for Culture Croydon

26/06/2026

How can artists use public spaces to make the climate crisis visible, build community and inspire small everyday actions? 🎡

That is the question we’ve been exploring through We Gather Here Because We Must; an artist exchange between Get It Done and Aks Creative Hub

Climate change is often discussed through data, targets and future scenarios. We wanted to begin somewhere more immediate: with our bodies, our streets, our shared spaces and the people around us.

Back in February, we gathered online for the first time. Drawing on books like Sensing Earth, participatory practices, climate case studies and our own experiences as artists, we developed a shared manifesto to guide the project.

These six principles are the foundation of We Gather Here Because We Must.

This project is supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture 2026 programme.

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Sanatçılar, iklim krizini görünür kılmak, topluluk oluşturmak ve gündelik hayatta küçük eylemlere ilham vermek için kamusal mekanı nasıl kullanabilir? 🎡

Get It Done ve Aks Creative Hub işbirliğinde gerçekleşen ve Birleşik Krallık ile Türkiye’den sanatçıları bir araya getiren We Gather Here Because We Must projesi boyunca araştırdığımız soru tam olarak buydu.

İklim değişikliği çoğu zaman veriler, hedefler ve geleceğe dair senaryolar üzerinden tartışılıyor. Biz ise daha doğrudan ve yakın bir yerden başlamak istedik: bedenlerimizden, sokaklarımızdan, ortak alanlarımızdan ve çevremizdeki insanlardan.

Şubat ayında ilk kez çevrim içi olarak bir araya geldik. “Sensing Earth” gibi kitaplardan, katılımcı pratiklerden, iklim alanındaki vaka çalışmalarından ve sanatçılar olarak kendi deneyimlerimizden yola çıkarak projeye rehberlik edecek ortak bir manifesto geliştirdik.

Bu altı ilke, We Gather Here Because We Must projesinin temelini oluşturuyor.

Bu proje British Council’ın Connections Through Culture 2026 programı tarafından desteklenmektedir.

28/04/2026

After making our inflatable worm at , we asked what can we take inspiration from here?

We looked at the SHAPE of our worm 🪱🌀🔸🟥 and made swirly, spirally shadow puppets that turned into snakes and axolotyls and more.

We looked at the MATERIAL ♻️🧱 of our worm and decided on experimenting with transparent coloured plastic.

And then we looked at the COLOUR 🌈 of our worm and made abstract viewfinders, holding the up to the window to change the colour of our worlds or placing them on the overhead projector to make more fun shadow play.

This is we call in the biz a material-led enquiry… aka let’s follow the thread and see what comes up! We love working in a open and flexible way that places children’s creativity and ideas central to the outcome. Let’s play more!

Thank you and for having us! 🌀

01/04/2026

We are pleased to announce the selected emerging artists for We Gather Here Because We Must! 🌿✨

We Gather Here Because We Must is an international exchange pairing four emerging artists from Türkiye and the UK. Together we will imagine and build small-scale, playful and low-cost creative actions that make the climate crisis visible and bring people together in everyday urban spaces.

And finally working with Öykü is Maisie Pritchard . Maisie is an artist and creative facilitator living in Manchester (UK) with a studio at Paradise Works in Salford, and Yellowhammer in Stockport. She is interested in how artistic and design processes can crossover to generate functional and interactive artworks. Maisie invites people to interact, co-create and engage through shared acts of making. People’s participation often activates the work within both gallery and community contexts, and sometimes through workshops that involve teaching, sharing and exchanging creative skills.

This programme is supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture 2026 programme.

26/02/2026

How do you design a PLAY FULL city? Part 1

Our PLAY FULL project with was co-developed alongside Year 5 pupils, bringing children’s voices, research and big ideas into conversations about how neighbourhoods could better support play.

It developed in many exciting ways (from and local councillors pledging increased local funding, to embedding the PLAY FULL model into their 2026 strategy). But one of the most visible outcomes came through our collaboration with .

Architecture studio Editional are developing play-based placemaking interventions in Longsight. As part of PLAY FULL, we invited them to work with our Creative Crews to imagine what these could look like.

Using chalk our young people drew different ideas for ‘floorals’ (floor murals!), games built into benches, obstacle trails and decorations to bring moments of play into the streets.

We’re very glad to say that some of these ideas have made it into the final designs and will be brought to life later this year!

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