2025 funded projects
About our 2024 funded projects
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
- 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 Male Voice Choir will run their Party in the Park 2025, a free open air music festival including performances from 6 local choirs and 3 bands, children’s crafts and mask making stalls, and more
- Horbury Civic Society will run Horbury Picnic in the Park 2025, a community one-day event in Carr Lodge Park, Horbury
- 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
- Open Country’s Wild about Woodlands project will offer weekly creative woodland sessions for local disabled people in nature spots around the district
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
Literature
- 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
Music
- 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
Visual art and sculpture
- 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