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We share news for people working in the Creative Sector – offering career progression, skills development, business development, or funding opportunities.
Advertise Your Creative Job Opportunity or Industry Event For Free
You can now advertise your creative job opportunity or industry event for free on the Creative Wakefield website.
Funding Opportunity for UK Artists and Creatives to Engage with Responsible AI
Open to artists, designers, musicians, performers, architects, urban designers, craftspeople, artisans, writers and poets.
The Art House Vacancy: Visitor Welcome & Café Supervisor
This role oversees the day to day delivery of The Art House’s visitor welcome and café.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Supporters Survey
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is participating in exciting research to understand what’s important to you – not only at YSP but
West Yorkshire Creative Health Network
Together, we're creating the most comprehensive understanding of Creative Health across West Yorkshire.
How to … use creative methods in research, consultation and facilitation
Whether you’re thinking about evaluation, research or facilitation, incorporating creative methods can bring new voices & new perspectives into the
Killer Soundtracks: Sonic Excess in Ryan Murphy’s Horror Shows
Join Dr Catherine Haworth for this talk exploring the role of music and sound in Ryan Murphy’s horror shows.
New Screen Industry Skills Plan announced
Organisations from across the UK’s screen industries are coming together to develop a new industry-led strategic framework.
Freelancers’ Handbook and Resources Directory
The Freelancers’ Handbook includes insights and practical guidance for the estimated 30% of the cultural workforce operating as freelancers.
Wakefield District Heritage Hub Launched
Whether you're a volunteer, community group or heritage enthusiast, you'll find free resources, guidance and support.
Funding for UK Start-ups Developing Cultural and Creative Technologies
Focusing on the Materials and Built Environment area, including fashion, architecture and advanced materials.
Historic England Invites Applications for Neighbourhood Heritage Grants
Offering 21 grants of up to £15,000 for community groups, charities, community interest companies, and local authorities.
British Council Opens NXT:now Applications for UK-Germany Arts Partnerships
Supporting artistic projects exploring challenges affecting young people aged 18 to 30.
UK Music Creators Growth Fund Invites Applications
Arts Council England is accepting applications to the Music Creators Growth Fund.
Communications & Social Media Consultant Lupset Pride in Place Programme
Seeking a freelance Communications & Social Media Consultant to raise awareness, grow community participation, share local stories & promote programme
Casual Events Facilitator
As a Casual Events Facilitator you will be responsible for providing first-class customer service and practical assistance to ensure our
Small Grants Programme supported by The Linbury Trust
Funding small projects that make a big impact to a theatre’s resilience, sustainability, accessibility or improving the diversity of audiences.
The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK – The Autumn 2026 application round is now OPEN
The Foundation provides grants to charities and some not-for-profit organisations.
Research and Innovation Grants – The National Archives
Research and Innovation Grants create opportunities for research, innovation and transformative projects in the archive sector.
Music for All – Awards Overview
Music for All offers financial grants and instrument awards to individuals, schools and community groups.
Culture and heritage capital – Valuing social cohesion: a scoping study
Scoping research on potential methodologies to monetise the value of social cohesion.
Theatres Trust Accepting Applications for Round 12 of the Small Grants Fund
For not-for-profit theatres across the UK to deliver small essential works to improve a theatre's resilience, sustainability or accessibility.
Beyond The Portrait – Residency
A contemporary Artist Residency responding to Wakefield’s Civic Art Collection.
Head of Education and Communities – Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Responsible for leading YSP’s established programme of learning, engagement and community practice.
Theatre marketing cheat sheet; a practical guide from AudienceView
Theatre audiences are more fragmented and digitally engaged than ever, and a single email blast no longer fills a house.
Mental Health Awareness: Managing Anxiety and Uncertainty – Screenskills Training
This session is funded by the HETV Skills Fund with contributions from UK high-end TV productions.
Final Round – Wakefield Council Culture Grants 2026
Wakefield Council Culture Grants Small awards grants of up to £1,500 to support heritage and creative activities and events in
CoSTAR Invites Applications for Inclusive Multisensory Project Support
The call is intended to help businesses adapt existing projects and assess how sensory features affect audiences.
Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund Reopens for UK Applications
Grants of £50,000 to £110,000 are available over a period of up to three years.
YVAN 25/26 Annual Report
The report brings together an overview of the work YVAN have delivered in our region in the past year.
National Archives Offers Funding to Prepare the Archives Sector for the Future
Offering a small number of grants of up to £10,000 to archivists & heritage professionals working with archival collections.
National Archives Accepting UK Applications for Project Grants
Grants of up to £30,000, to support collaborative partnerships between Galleries, Libraries, Archives, & Museums.
Foundations Wakefield Scratch Night Volume 6 Seek Performers
Our scratch nights are a space to test ideas, share work in progress, and connect with other artists.
Support for Musical Projects in Deprived or Marginalised Areas Across the UK
Dedicated to changing lives across the UK by improving access to music making.
Creative Young Lives Survey
A new initiative to better understand how children & young people across England take part in creative & cultural activity.
Applicant Hub: National Portfolio 2028-33
Arts organisations, museums and libraries can apply for five years of investment.
Neighbourhood Heritage: Grants For Communities
Up to £15,000 is available for Community-Led Heritage Projects from Historic England.
Engaging Education Becomes Assembly as Agency Enters its Next Chapter
Wakefield-based marketing and communications agency, Engaging Education, has relaunched as Assembly.
2027 Dylan Thomas Literature Prize Invites Entries
The prize will be awarded to the single author who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best
The Hedley Foundation – A Grant Giving Charity
Providing grants to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need.
Creative Industries Workspace Review – West Yorkshire
To understand strengths and weaknesses of existing spaces as well as what the opportunities and threats there are for creatives
Have your say on how National Lottery Good Causes funding is used
Share your stories & make your voices heard about what arts investment through the National Lottery means to you now,
New ‘Freelance Champions’ to put creative workers at the heart of Government’s policy-making
Leila D’Aronville and Lizzie Crump have been appointed as the Government’s Freelance Champions
UK first as art detectives put Tudor masterpiece under the public spotlight
The National Trust and experts from the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, are set to use a cutting-edge imaging technique.
Grand Plan
£1,000 grants for UK artists of colour to develop creative projects or take a significant step in their practice.
Castle Studies Trust Accepting Applications for 2026 Funding Round
Supporting the production of new and discrete pieces of research that enhance the understanding & knowledge of castles.
Rhubarb Festival Performance Commission
We are seeking to commission three performers to deliver family-friendly performances during the Wakefield Rhubarb Festival and February Half Term
