Members Opportunities
This is a place where members can share exciting opportunities with each other and the wider cultural sector.
All Opportunities, Get Involved's, Jobs, Commissions, Funding, Training and Call Outs are submitted by CVF members. If you have any questions/queries about the opportunities featured, please contact the organiser directly.
If you have an opportunity to share please head to our submissions page linked below
Saltaire Collection – Freelance Opportunities
The two (or potentially one combined) opportunities are:
Freelance Museum Development
Scope of work: £10,500 (approx. 30 days)
Timeline: December 2024-April 2025
The project involves procuring a Museum Design company for developing an interpretation plan, engaging with providers for archival storage and fitting out new museum spaces, and supporting community group involvement in shaping the museum’s narrative.
Full brief
Freelance Developing Sustainability
Scope of work: £9,000 (approx. 26 days)
Timeline: December 2024-April 2025
Lead elements of the Bright Future: Saltaire project by building trustee skills through training, recruiting new trustees, developing a strategic income generation plan, and preparing grant bids to support the Saltaire Collection's transition to full museum status.
Full brief
Deadline: Friday 8th November
ITCH
A new submissions window is now open for new pieces of theatre created by women with a connection to the Aire Valley. The window closes 3rd January 2025 and the selected pieces will be presented at a scratch night, "She Writes", for International Women's Day on 8th March 2025.
Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025
South Square Centre - Programme & Gallery Manager
4 days per week
£27,000 pro rata
South Square seeks a Programme & Gallery Manager to lead its arts, heritage, and community programming. Responsibilities include curating exhibitions, managing events, overseeing gallery/shop operations, and fostering relationships with Bradford’s visual arts community to position South Square as a cultural anchor.
Deadline: Thursday 21st November
Chair of the Board of Trustees
Join The Peace Museum during an exciting time of transformation, as they welcome visitors to their new gallery space within Salt's Mill, Saltaire - a UNESCO world heritage site. You'll be a key part in their mission of promoting a peaceful future through the sharing of stories of peace from the past and present.
Deadline: Saturday 16th November
Your Way Awards 2025
Awards of up to £10,000 and support for community-led arts and culture projects that will create opportunities for children, young people and families to inspire, create joy and shared experiences and benefit from the social and educational impact of arts.
Deadline: Monday 18th November
University of Bradford
Seeking a local artist to collaborate on Who are you?, a University of Bradford project exploring identity through stories shared by students, staff, and community members. The artist will work with participants to translate these stories into a creative form—visual art, digital media, spoken word, or other media—to reflect Bradford's diverse identities, with the final work showcased on campus during Bradford 2025. Key requirements include experience in community projects, storytelling skills, and openness to diverse collaboration.
Register your interest:
If you are interested in working on this project, please e-mail events@bradford.ac.uk by Friday 8 November with the following information:
Name
Previous examples of your work and experience
How much you would charge
If you would like to discuss the commission further, please contact Ana Jara Gonzalez on events@bradford.ac.uk.
Expanding Horizons
Expanding Horizons is a bespoke business development programme exclusively for arts and culture organisations in the Bradford district. It offers personalised coaching, training and access to funding and is designed to empower organisations to grow and thrive in their creative ventures.
Through Expanding Horizons, Bradford Producing Hub will support a cohort of 8 organisations through a series of group coaching sessions and 1-2-1 mentoring alongside training and development sessions. Upon completion of the programme, organisations will gain access to an £8,000 fund to invest in further development work based on needs identified during the programme.
Online information session: Tuesday 19th November, 1pm.
Deadline: Sunday 1st December
PROPEL Bradford
PROPEL is a 40-day paid work placement programme for early-career creatives working in producing, production and programming
Producer placement:
Bradford 2025, Assistant International Producer - Deadline: Sunday 24th November
Programming placement:
Bradford 2025, Assistant Venue Programmer - Deadline: Sunday 24th November
More placements to open!
PRS Early Career Promoter application support
Bradford Producing Hub is offering emerging and early-career music promoters in the Bradford district application support for the Early Career Promoter Fund from the PRS Foundation, which provides grants of up to £3,500 alongside skills development.
Deadline: Sunday 17 November
Do Your Thing – Creative Lives micro-awards
Do you sing, dance, knit, garden, paint, cook, or play music with others in your community? We’ve teamed up with Creative Lives to offer small awards to community organisations as part of Bradford 2025.
This is your opportunity to bring your creativity to life and make a difference in your community. in partnership with Creative Lives, we’re offering £400 micro-awards for local groups to organise creative activities that engage and inspire your community.
Deadline: Sunday 10th December
Join the conversation about the value of Bradford’s City of Culture!
Bradford 2025’s UK City of Culture is about more than just 2025 – it’s about celebrating and communicating the lasting value it brings to our city and its people. We believe arts and culture have the power to connect and inspire communities, and we’re inviting you to share your experiences and help us understand what this value means for Bradford.
In partnership with Making Impact Matter, Bradford 2025 are launching a research project to learn about the social value that arts and culture bring to Bradford. This research isn’t about shaping the City of Culture programme itself – it’s about capturing the value it creates for people like you.
The Leap Toolkits
The Leap have now launched a series of webinars and tools for the cultural sector, check them out below!
1-2-1 Support Sessions with Visual Arts Instigator - Alison McIntyre
Each month, Visual Arts Instigator, Alison McIntyre hosts Visual Arts Support Sessions both in-person at Assembly Bradford and online. These session can provide creative advice and signpost to funding, support and networking opportunities for people working in the Bradford visual arts scene.
These sessions are open to all visual artists and arts professionals living or working in Bradford.
50 Things To Do
50 Things To Do Ages 5 to 11 is eager to see what a skill-based, playful, diverse and thoroughly resourced curriculum would look like in supporting those children that, by choice or circumstance, want or need to approach education differently. We’d love to have insight from those in the creative sector as we talk through these ideas. What do you wish children knew about the creative process? How would you want your art and community represented? Did you have any barriers to becoming a creative that you’d love to help others overcome? You don’t have to have experience working with children, just a willingness to share your opinions by email or in a group online session.
If you’d like to be involved please email Rachel at Rachel.Cambell@stedmundsbradford.org.uk
The Why Don't We? group
Participants and volunteers wanted! The Why Don't We? group is an inclusive arts collective, supporting local artists with a learning disability to developing their practice and exhibit work. We are looking for new members to join the group, who meet on Thursdays in central Bradford. No previous experience of making art is necessary, just an interest in being creative. The group is supported by two professional community artists, and there is also an opportunity for someone relatively new to community arts to volunteer and gain some practical work experience. Travel expenses paid. Please contact Alice on info@pyramid.org.uk / 0113 234 6040 to enquire.
PYRAMID
Why Don't We (inclusive arts group)
It's On In Bradford
It's On In Bradford is a What’s On platform dedicated to engaging audiences with arts and culture activity across the district. Whether you're an artist, event organiser, or venue, you can share your events for free. And if you're looking for something to do, feel free to check out what's going on!