CPP projects: North
North
Creative People and Places funds 17 projects across the North of England. Find out more about each project.
Allerdale and Copeland | Everyone Here
Project partners: ACTion in Communities in Cumbria (lead org), Florence Arts Centre, Allerdale Borough Council, Copeland Borough Council, Lakes College West Cumbria , West Cumbrian Arts (Theatre by the Lake, Prism Arts, Rosehill Theatre), Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (Sellafield)
Everyone Here will tackle participation inequalities and giving voice to communities who are seldom heard in West Cumbria. They will raise aspirations, grow participation and support communities to relish all that the arts offer, sharing homegrown to internationally recognised quality arts experiences with dispersed communities, building on current successes and developing new grassroots activities. They will engage, inspire, support and celebrate creativity, enabling people to realise their ambitions, and ultimately to develop and commission their own community cultural initiatives.
Barrow | BarrowFull
Project partners: Women’s Community Matters, Brathay Trust, Barrow Arts Group, University of Cumbria, Westmorland and Furness Council.
BarrowFull is a once-in-a-generation project using culture to transform community engagement and create a lasting arts infrastructure in the town of Barrow-in Furness. The project will focus on creating new collaborations, delivering large scale commissions and embedded residencies, and initiate a vast range of community led grassroots activity.
Blackburn, Burnley, Darwen, Hyndburn and Pendle | Super Slow Way
Project partners: Canal & River Trust(Lead), Newground, Four local authorities – Pendle, Burnley, Hyndburn and Blackburn with Darwen, University of Central Lancashire, APPL (Arts Partners in Pennine Lancashire), Creative Lancashire, Lancashire BME Network & Incredible Edible.
This investment will fund an ambitious new programme of work delivered across 4 local authority areas in Pennine Lancashire along 20 miles of their shared waterway, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. They will invite artists to respond to this context by working with the people that live there, to investigate and celebrate their shared circumstances alongside their distinct cultures, from Nasheed to football, from hijab to hoodie.
Blackpool and Wyre | LeftCoast
Project partners: Blackpool Coastal Housing (lead), Blackpool Council, Show Town Museum, Blackpool Grand Theatre, South Shore Community Partnership, Blackpool and The Fylde College.
With this funding LeftCoast will use its guiding principles of inclusion, relevance & quality, both on the ground & strategically, to make extraordinary & unexpected things happen in Blackpool’s Communities & Neighbourhoods. They will continue to evolve their socially engaged practice & artistic ambition to elevate partnership programmes across the town taking the Lets Create ethos into many more communities & deepening participation with people they have switched on to arts & culture in other CPP phases. Using their learning from the last 8 years, they will remain agile, responsive & collaborative using the arts to imaginatively partner with the constantly shifting needs of the town.
LeftCoast is also funded to deliver activity in Wyre until November 2022.
Bradford | The LEAP
Project partners: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Born in Bradford, Mind the Gap, Eid Festival, Keighley Association Women And Children’s Centre.
The LEAP will empower 120,000 new people to engage with cultural activity across Bradford. The focus will be on producing and commissioning artistically excellent work that will have a 50% BAME representation. This investment will enable The Leap to strengthen its position in the district’s cultural ecology as the pioneers of Community-Led Culture.
Doncaster | Right up our street
Project partners: Donacaster Culture and Leisure Trust (Lead), Doncaster Community Arts (darts), Inclusion and Fairness Forum, St Leger Housing Association, Business Doncaster, CAST theatre
Right Up Our Street is all about people across Doncaster borough choosing, making, seeing and sharing great art, and that includes everything from the visual arts, music and theatre right through to dance, radio, poetry and more. This investment will build on learning from the past ten years as well as reflect and respond to the needs of the community post the COVID 19 Pandemic. Their work will be guided by the Community Panel, Friends and Neighbours and will be a combination of large-scale spectacles, borough wide events and in depth participant specific projects delivered both in person and digitally.
County Durham | No More Nowt
Project partners: East Durham Trust (lead), Beamish Museum, Durham County Council, Area Action Partnership, Believe Housing
No More Nowt champions inclusive grassroots-led, place-based arts engagement. They will share their exemplar model on a county level and beyond. They will continue to explore the value of culture by and for post-industrial communities and the benefits of working in an embedded way with non-arts partners. Building on their longstanding effective place-based working they will soften borders, developing an offer connected to their established roots in the East that is available to and accessible by all residents of County Durham.
Kirklees | Creative Scene
Project partners: Brigantia Creative (Lead), Batley Festival, Heckmondlight Community Committee, Spark Skills Ltd, 6 Million Plus Charitable Trust, Kirklees Council.
Creative Scene has its sights firmly set on making art a bigger and bolder part of everyday life in this part of Kirklees. They will do this through a wide ranging programme of creative activities & cultural events, in all of these, their diverse communities will be central to making decisions about what they get involved, taking a lead in commissioning briefs and coproducing.
Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland | Borderlands
Project Partners: Teesside University / MIMA (lead), Middlesborough Football Club Foundation, North Star Housing, Tees Valley Nature Partnership, Tees Valley Education, You’ve Got This.
Borderlands is a major programme of creative growth in Middlesborough, Redcar and Cleveland. The project will focus on significantly increasing the number of local people taking part in cultural activity as well as embedding culture as a part of Tees Valley’s approach to health, wellbeing, education and employability.
Rochdale | Culture Coop
Project partners: Action Together CIO (Lead), Rochdale Borough Council, Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust (Your Trust) and The Co-operative Group.
Culture Coop is based on the original 1844 Rochdale Co-operative principles. The Coop builds shops in places where communities live & where the shops will benefit the community. Culture Coop will build cultural opportunities around neighbourhoods & across communities. Citizens will become collaborators, co-designers, co-producers and protagonists in creating work that is both neighbourhood driven and recognised for its quality, local relevance and artistic ambition.
Rotherham | Flux Rotherham
Project partners: Voluntary Action Rotherham, Rotherham Ethnic Minority Alliance, Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance, Grimm & Co, Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust, Rotherham Council’s Culture Sport and Tourism Department.
Flux is an action-research programme designed to engage Rotherham’s communities in arts and culture. The programme will transform local people’s involvement in leading and shaping relevant cultural provision. ality, local relevance and artistic ambition.
Sunderland | The Cultural Spring
Project partners: University of Sunderland (Lead), Sunderland Music Arts & Culture (MAC) Trust, The Cultural Spring Charity; Young Asian Voices (YAV).
The Cultural Spring is an exciting, ambitious project to get more people in Sunderland to experience and be inspired by the arts. This investment will allow them to expand their current programme offer of workshops, Your Art, Go and See visits to include an empty shop programme, large scale R&D’s and large scale commissions. Their work is focused on local residents being involved in decision making processes and co-creating work with artists, creatives and cultural organisations.
The Cultural Spring is funded to deliver activity in South Tyneside until March 2023
St Helens and Knowsley | Heart of Glass
Project partners: Heart of Glass (Lead), Knowsley Safari Park, One Knowsley, St Helens College, Knowsley Library & Cultural Services, Incredible Edible Knowsley, University of the 3rd Age St Helens, Saints Community Development Foundation, Citadel Arts & Bizzhub CDP.
The Heart of Glass programme is rooted in collaborative practice and embodies the principle of partnership. Their core values, philosophy and approach as a project are founded on co-production with the community and the active participation of the collaborator, non-artist, audience and viewer in the creation of great art. Their single joined up programme will expand into Kowsley, learning from past experiences, broadening cultural choices across the two boroughs, and empowering more and diverse communities to take the lead.
Wigan | Down to Earth
Project partners: Arts at the Mill CIC (Lead), The Turnpike CIC, Groundwork and Wigan Athletic Community Trust (WACT), Lancashire Wildlife Trust (LWT) and Wigan Borough Council (WBC).
Down To Earth’ (DTE) invites Wigan residents to shape and create art & culture, focussing on the borough’s green spaces as sites for cultural engagement. DTE is led by a strong consortium that is deeply-rooted in communities. DTE will meet cultural needs & appetites, no matter the starting point, taking people on a journey from observer, to shaper & advocate. They will do this through four strands: Stepping Stones: co-created deeply engaging work, Paths of Discovery: local, light touch & easy to access interventions, Moments of Joy: large-scale collective celebration and Legacy: long-term development opportunities.