It is an exciting time to be joining Bradford Arts Centre. You will provide excellent customer service to the visitors and customers of Bradford Arts Centre and play a key role in the day to day running of the venue, supporting staff to ensure meetings and events run smoothly. They are looking for someone who is proactive and confident in taking the initiative and managing multiple tasks and timelines. You will be a strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.

Multiple roles are available to work on the Sheffield DocFest, due to take place 10-15 Jun 2026:

Senior Production Coordinator
Volunteer Coordinator
Festival Venue Coordinators
Festival Box Office Coordinators

Roles close on various dates throughout January and early February. You can apply for multiple roles with the same application by stating your preference at the top.

Fair Food Futures UK brings together powerful photographs and stories shared by families with children living in Tower Hamlets, London, and Bradford, exploring how communities are responding to the challenges of accessing food and support. Forty families have shared their stories through interviews, photography and video, offering unique insights into how people navigate food insecurity and community support.

The Fair Food Futures UK exhibition is free and runs from 29 October 2025 until 21 February 2026, Monday to Saturday, from 9am to 5pm at the 1st floor of Darley Street Market.

Bradford Arts Centre is looking for an exceptional individual who is a Qualified Accountant and who is passionate about arts and culture to be the Treasurer of its Board of Trustees.

Trustees are expected to attend a minimum of four in-person Board meetings a year – with further meetings and informal discussions as required; represent Bradford Arts Centre at external events; and attend at least one performance at the venue each season. This role is not paid, but they cover any expenses that you might incur whilst delivering your responsibilities (including lost income for joining meetings).

Prior experience of being part of a Board is not required.

From Sun 11 to Fri 23 January 2026, 11am–2pm, Cat Scott MRSS Studio transforms her industrial studio into a white cube gallery, part of the Affiliate Programme for OUR TURN – Bradford's first visual art festival led by South Square Centre, alongside the Turner Prize exhibition post-Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

As a newly elected and only woman member in Yorkshire of the Royal Society of Sculptors, Cat has shared rarely exhibited works, accessible touring sculptures, research, public artworks in progress, including: 2D lenticular artworks, fluid sculptures, films, soundscapes, photography, public sculptural interventions, and cross-sector collaborations focussing on personal, hydro-feminist and climate themes – this show is not to be missed.

Free – booking essential, by appointment only (with 1+ days notice) with timeslot between 11am–2pm from 11–23 January 2026, to help Cat manage the exhibition.

Book via studio@catscott.co.uk / 07944 593 126.

NEWSUBSTANCE are seeking a creative and versatile Concept Artist / Visualiser to support the development of ideas across their Moments and Space work. This is an office-based role at their Leeds studio, working in person alongside the Imagine & Design team. You'll work across 2D sketching and 3D modelling / rendering, helping to visualise early concepts and support the creative direction of projects as they develop.

Applications are now open for visual artists and contemporary craft designer-makers to take part in Saltaire Arts Trail over the May Day bank holiday weekend from Sat 2 – Mon 4 May 2026.

The OPEN VILLAGE (Sat 2 – Mon 4 May) encourages visitors to explore spaces not traditionally found on the tourist map. Grade II listed mill cottages, public buildings, gardens and surrounding small business spaces transform into mini-galleries, giving both emerging and established artists a unique exhibiting opportunity within these domestic and heritage settings. Applications from visual artists working in a variety of art forms are invited to exhibit work in these unique spaces.

SALTAIRE MAKERS FAIR (Sun 3 & Mon 4 May) takes place on the Sunday and Monday in the stunning Victoria Hall. This highly respected craft market showcases high-quality, innovative work across three rooms by contemporary craft designer-makers working in a wide range of handmade disciplines, inlcuding ceramics, textiles, jewellery, glass, metal, artists’ books, paper, leather, wood, furniture, plastics, fashion textiles and accessories, original printmaking and mixed media.

The City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is inviting applications from eligible local organisations to apply for capital grants to support delivery of cultural, sport and / or recreational activities in the Bradford District.

Grants are available to local organisations whose work supports arts, culture, heritage, sport, and recreational activities. They are designed to help groups improve their buildings, upgrade equipment, and create better spaces for people to take part in activities that enrich community life, and must where possible meet at least two of the ten aims set out in the Culture Is Our Plan‘s Vision & Targets.

Organisations can apply for a capital grant between £5,000 and £50,000. The project must be delivered and grant spent by 28 February 2027.

Calling all creative freelancers of Bradford (and those who hire them!) - come play in a game night with a difference.

Join The Uncultured for a relaxed, cosy board game night where you get to play their new artwork, Frazzled Freelancers, meet new people and have a laugh, in what feels like a never-ending January – and after a very busy 2025.

After years of researching and experiencing freelancer precarity and burnout, The Uncultured have stepped out from behind their spreadsheets to design Frazzled Freelancers. This artwork, cleverly disguised as a board game, is a comical (and unfortunately accurate) take on freelance life and all its curveballs.

Come on your own or bring a friend, and hopefully we’ll all leave feeling a little less frazzled.

Some refreshments will be available, but they’ll be mostly for comedic purposes, so eat your tea before you come if you’re hungry.

This event, hosted by The Uncultured, is supported by Bradford Producing Hub and Arts Council England.

Everybody Arts is an innovative arts and education charity based in Halifax. They are seeking a Finance Trustee to join the Board and help guide the charity’s financial sustainability and strategic direction.

Although their current priority is financial support, they also welcome applications from individuals with other specialisms who are interested in becoming trustees.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Lauren@everybodyarts.org.uk.