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This is a second call-out for the 2023 Award for the hugely popular light themed events taking place in Bradford and the district over October & November 2023.
Communities, artists and visionaries - we want you to realise our ambition together to light up places, explore unusual spaces and uncover the beauty of the district after dark.
Applications now closed.
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The Leap’s Community-Led Heritage Grants programme is a chance for individuals and groups to reshape the district’s heritage story. We want to support projects that creatively involve local people in leading on heritage activity. It’s all about using arts, culture, community and lived experience to express our district’s heritage stories.
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Awards to small-scale community-led festivals to support community-led activity as part of their programme with support of a cash Award and development support from our team to help with promotion, outreach and governance.
Supported festivals included: Bradford South Asian Heritage Month, Keighley Arts and Film Festival, Bradford Fringe, Intercultured, Keighley Pride. Together with these festivals, we will also support the initial exploration of developing a broader festival platform that can help promote all the community festivals under one banner – to create a united presence, maximise reach and future investment and to develop new audiences for each festival.
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The Radical Social programme is about supporting people and their ideas to create change using creative and entrepreneurial solutions to social issues. Providing opportunities for young people to pitch radical ideas and receive funding and bespoke support to develop those ideas into amazing new cultural experiences that address social change.
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The Leap Pioneer Programme Awards are for Creative Entrepreneurs who are motivated to use their time, energy and ideas to tackle social issues in communities through arts and creativity. The programme is designed to upskill and develop sustainable infrastructure within the District for individuals with big bold ideas to trial, test and grow within the District.
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Growing the eco-system of support for community led culture by training other specialist and non-specialist organisations to lead their own culture support programmes. This programme is shifting power and decision-making to local people and to develop cultural skills, capacity and confidence in communities and partners.
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People and places thrive when placemaking integrates arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that can strengthen social and environmental change in communities. Our Change Space projects puts local people at the heart of leading the creative process as dreamers, architects and designers of places. Our work builds partnerships across sectors, deeply engages the community, and involves artists, designers, statutory services and policy makers, laying the groundwork for wider systems change.