2025 funded projects


About our 2024 funded projects

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Please find on this page a list of the Culture Grants projects supported in 2025. They are arranged by project theme categories.

Community events and festivals

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  • 1st Castleford Guides Whitwood Division will run Whitwood Celebrates, a celebration event for children and volunteers, including a range of creative activities
  • Carr Gate Community Association will hold their ‘Movie Magic’ themed community flowerpot and scarecrow festival
  • Castleford Tigers Community Trust will mark Castleford Tigers’ 100th year through dance, art, and heritage
  • Frontside will run a one-day festival at Castleford Skate Park. Celebrating local culture, creativity, and skate achievements
  • Horbury Civic Society will run Horbury Picnic in the Park 2025, a community one-day event in Carr Lodge Park, Horbury
  • LonGBoaT Wakefield CIO will run a Community Pride Fringe. The day will include creative activities, talks and music performances
  • Next Generation CIC will hold Wakefield Mela 2025, a cross-cultural event celebrating South Asian culture through music, arts, food, and stalls
  • One Ummah Community CIC’s Cultures in Harmony project will include a cultural sharing celebration day and a theatre performance showcasing Sudanese cultural heritage
  • Portobello Community Forum will host Portobello Gala - Treasures in our Community, including performances from local theatre groups, cheerleaders, dancers, and local students
  • St Mary's Chequerfield Community Project will host St Mary’s Summer Showcase 2025, a community celebration day with arts and crafts, games, storytelling and more

Crafts

Group of people arranging plants under UV lamps Photo by Nick Singleton
  • Community Foundation Wakefield District will run a 6-week programme of weekly workshops. Participants will learn how to upcycle their clothes

Heritage

Two men standing in front of a stall at a heritage fair Photo by Nick Singleton
  • Castleford Heritage Trust will uncover Castleford’s overlooked glassworks heritage
  • Featherstone Rovers Foundation will run storytelling and creative heritage workshops exploring the bond between mining and rugby league in Featherstone and the 5 towns
  • Story Trails will run heritage trail walks around the district and led during Heritage Open Days, developed in collaboration with local communities
  • Wakefield Trinity Community Foundation will offer a programme of rugby heritage reminiscence sessions in local care homes and family workshops celebrating Trinity heritage through creative displays

Music

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  • Fanfare Music will run a Music Production Summer School for children aged 8 to 15 during the school holidays with 3 experienced music educators in Ossett
  • Wakefield Music Collective’s Clarence Park Festival 2025 will feature 22 live bands, DJs, children's crafts, stalls and more

Performing arts

Two performers making a heart shape out of their bodies and arms Photo by Jack Silver
  • Christopher Dyson’s project will revive the historic folk tradition of Mummers Plays with schoolchildren in Knottingley
  • Empath Theatre CIC’s Wakespeare theatre programme will reimagine Shakespeare through Wakefield voices

Visual art and sculpture

Silver art installation Photo by Nick Singleton
  • Castleford Art Space will deliver creative mapping workshops. They will create an art installation at Carlton Lanes Shopping Centre in Castleford
  • Horbury Community Centre Trust will offer drop-in mosaic activities as part of their 10th anniversary open day, to create a new mosaic marking their 10th year
  • Lakeside Creative Arts Centre will run a community stained glass project. Inspired by Newmillerdam’s landscape
  • Ossett and District Camera Club will deliver weekly photography sessions. Featuring expert talks, hands-on feedback, and competitions

Creative Health

Group of three sat on a bench, drawing Photo by Nick Singleton
  • Footprints Forward with HKers and Locals CIC will support Hong Kong families through creative activities. With a final celebratory exhibition for the local community
  • Reflections Yorkshire CIC will deliver new weekly art classes for Reflections’ service users in recovery 
  • Sustain Wakefield will work with service users to create a new community-driven newspaper highlighting the benefits of art in mental health and neuro inclusion 
  • The Optima Collective CIC will offer creative sessions exploring alternative and heavy metal music. Supporting emotional wellbeing and self-expression 
  • Wakefield Parent Carer Forum CIC will offer 24 creative sessions for SEND children and their families in Wakefield 

Nature and Sustainability

Woman with sound equipment kneeling at a water's edge Photo by Nick Singleton
  • Grow Wakefield will run weekly arts sessions using natural materials 
  • Open Country’s Wild about Woodlands project will offer weekly creative woodland sessions for local disabled people in nature spots around the district 
  • Tony Wade will run creative workshops in Airedale and Fryston, focusing on local green spaces and trees. With a final public artwork 


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