Members Opportunities

Bradford 2025 are looking for a team of talented, Creative People to join Our Patch, their community engagement programme. You might be an artist with experience of work in the community, a community worker with a creative flair, a creative business – or a dedicated hobbyist.

There are 10 paid freelance roles that will work across Bradford District – Bradford East, Bradford South, Bradford West, Keighley & Ilkley, and Shipley.

Deadline: Monday 3rd February

Baildon Town Council is seeking to appoint a manager for Bracken Hall Countryside Centre. Successful candidate will be responsible for creating a Business Plan, the centre's day-to-day management and development, helping recruit volunteers, providing learning experiences, creating exhibitions and hosting events.

Deadline: Sunday 26th January

Bradford Council is delighted to announce a funding programme to support the development of events and festivals across the district in our UK City of Culture year 2025.

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The festival fund is a funding programme developed to celebrate Bradford District’s unique festivals and events. The district has over 30 festivals and events across the year that are celebrated in our neighbourhoods in a range of spaces including parks, community hubs and shopping centres.

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A range of festivals and events will be supported across the five constituencies which will celebrate the rich plethora of cultures we have in our district. From galas to music events to art trails, family fun festivals, film festivals and light parades, it’s a chance for creativity to thrive in all areas of the district and for people to participate in range of relevant and fun cultural experiences.

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Deadline: Monday 3rd February

In Summer 2025, following a multi-million-pound capital redevelopment, Kala Sangam’s City Centre venue will reopen to the public as Bradford Arts Centre. As the company plans for this milestone event in Bradford’s year as UK City of Culture, we are inviting applications from local, reputed, and experienced Café operators/Restauranteurs to manage and run a new Café within this flagship arts venue.

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Extended Deadline: Friday 31st January

The Beacon is a temporary performance space that will be travelling the district during our year as UK City of Culture. This super-versatile venue has been designed to host a huge variety of different events – and you are invited to present your own community event in it.

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The Beacon will be a true hub for each neighbourhood it visits in 2025. It will be temporary home-from-home for everyone who uses it, with a programme of events that really reflects the brilliant communities of Bradford District. Join us in The Beacon and be part of the UK’s biggest cultural celebration.

A new consortium consisting of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Bradford Producing Hub, the Cultural Voice Forum and The Leap have come together to create a sustainable, joined-up infrastructure that supports Bradford’s diverse artists and community-led arts and culture. This two-year intervention directly responds to needs, improves collaboration and provision, and grows our diverse ecology for the City of Culture year and the long-term.

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The consortium provides an ecology of complementary, strategic remits:

• Bradford Metropolitan District Council (BMDC): commissions and platforms talent and new work in a calendar of festivals and events with a national and international reach.

• Bradford Cultural Voice Forum (CVF): networking and connectivity for everyone, the independent voice of the sector. Celebrating the sector, advocating at every level, embedding inclusivity. CVF is the inclusive home for all the new people we are encouraging into the sector.

• Bradford Producing Hub (BPH): needs-led skills, talent and career development for creatives.

• The Leap: place-focused, asset-focused approaches that enable leadership and build community capacity and skills. Grassroots connectivity and innovation.​

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The Bradford Way launched in April 2024 and we are now seeking an independent Chair to support the Consortium through the next 15 months of development and delivery, to: 

Support all partners and ensure ongoing equity in power and decision-making

Act as a critical friend to the project, ensuring we are meeting our aims and objectives and making the most of this development opportunity

Help us to realise The Bradford Way, by embedding new collaborative approaches that will continue for the long term and maximise the potential to open up further opportunities and future funding for the partnership

Fee: £6000
Deadline: Tuesday 21st January 2025 

Bradford 2025 is looking for up to 14 passionate individuals to take part in an aerial training programme. This exciting opportunity will allow participants to develop aerial performance skills and take part in a major outdoor event as part of Bradford’s UK City of Culture celebrations in September 2025. Participants must be over 18 years of age.

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Deadline: Friday 14th February

The Leap Consortium is looking for up to three new members to join us on our exciting journey to bring about change through community led arts and culture. Whilst these roles are voluntary positions, you will have the satisfaction of joining a dynamic, innovative organisation. 

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Deadline: Friday 14th February 2025

Visual Artist
Bradford Cathedral is looking for a Visual Artist to co-create a tapestry that reflects the spirit and history of Bradford’s communities. This significant piece will integrate stories from diverse groups and blend art with heritage, leaving a legacy for generations to come.

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Sound Artist

Calling all creative sound artists! Bradford Cathedral invites you to bring Bradford’s rich cultural heritage to life by creating a soundscape for the Weaving Stories project. Through this immersive auditory journey, you will incorporate archival recordings and stories gathered from local communities.

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Project Evaluator:
This unique opportunity involves developing an innovative evaluation framework to measure how this vibrant initiative connects Bradford’s heritage with its diverse communities through history, storytelling, and art.

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Deadline: Thursday 23rd January

PROPEL is a 40-day paid work placement programme for early-career creatives working in producing, production and programming. PROPEL has connected emerging talent with top festivals, theatres, and performance companies across the North for over two years. For 2025, Bradford Producing Hub has partnered with some exciting new hosts in Bradford and West Yorkshire, offering five hands-on paid placements in production, producing, and programming.

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Common Wealth Theatre - Production Design Assistant

Deadline: Monday 10th February

As part of their mission to improve health and wellbeing through creativity, Bradford 2025 are launching Bradford 2025 Social Prescribing Awards. These awards empower artists, researchers, community groups, and organisations in Bradford District and Craven to use arts and culture to tackle health challenges.

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There are two tiers of award available – they anticipate making 8 awards of up to £30,000 for partnership projects delivering medium-scale activity; with up to 18 smaller awards of up to £6,000, for smaller projects. ​

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Deadline: Monday 20th January

Bradford Producing Hub are partnering with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture to once again bring the Four Nations Outdoor Arts Bursary to performance makers in Bradford and nurture the creation of exciting new work for touring next summer. The Four Nations Outdoor Arts Bursary offers supported funding to emerging artists and companies to create new outdoor performance work. This work will be toured to festivals across all four nations throughout the summer of 2025.

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Deadline: Monday 3rd February 

Bradford Museums and Galleries are recruiting Young Ambassadors to help showcase Bradford’s historic heritage, renowned fine art collection and connections to everyone living in Bradford. Cohort one to start February 2025 to February 2026.

You will have the opportunity, led by the young ambassador cohort, to:

• Have access behind the scene s at all 4 museums.

• Training – this may include specific t raining for events.

• Support from experience d staff around the Museums.

• Travel reimbursed (you’ll just need t o give us the receipts). • Snacks and drinks when attending meetings at the Museums.

• Signposting to other event s and opportunities for young people. • Participating in meetings • Having your voice heard regarding the future of Museums.

• Curating New Clubs and Activities

• Shadowing and support ing staff and projects.

• Create film, blogs, v logs for our website .

• Become a Lead Ambassador

Deadline: Monday 27th January

To start January 2025:

This is a 3-month digitisation project, focusing on the Ian Beesley Collection. This project is an opportunity to digitise a significant new acquisition into the archive, as well as to trial new digitisation methods for Bradford District Museums and Galleries. They recruiting for 2 volunteer roles to work together – 1 digitisation role and 1
cataloguing role.

The NOVA workshops are a series of free music sessions designed for girls and marginalised genders aged 11-18 years, taking place Thursdays at Commonspace, Bradford, from January 9th to February 6th, 2025. Participants will develop skills in music technology and production, exploring found sounds, instruments, and synthesis. They will work towards a performance, collaborate with peers, and learn under the guidance of Mercury Award nominee Angela Chan. For more details or to book, contact info@allstarents.co.uk or call 07706355570.

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 have now launched a series of webinars and tools for the cultural sector, check them out below!

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.

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These sessions are open to all visual artists and arts professionals living or working in Bradford.

Each month, Bradford Music Lead, Sinead Campbell hosts 1-2-1 Music Support Sessions at Assembly Bradford. These session can provide creative advice and signpost to funding, support and networking opportunities. These sessions are open to artists and professionals working in the Bradford music scene. 

Each month, Creative Instigator, Nicole Joseph hosts 1-2-1 Support Sessions on Playwriting and Theatre-Making at Assembly Bradford and online. These sessions are open to all artists and arts professionals living or working in Bradford. Whether you need a listening ear, a critical friend, or just some advice on where to take your work or creative practice next – these sessions are for you!

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