About us

We are Bradford Culture Company

Bradford Culture Company is the charity which delivered Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture – a huge year-long celebration of our city and district. Through our programme of more than 5,000 events, creative education programmes, investment into buildings and organisations across the local sector, and most importantly creating more opportunities for Bradford people we have helped lay the foundations for the long-term transformation of where we live.

Throughout 2026 we’re working in partnership with communities and organisations to make sure that Bradford can build on the success of last year.

Want to find out about upcoming events and exhibitions? Head to our what’s on page.

Visit our contact page to get in touch with the team.

Loading Bay

The Beacon

Our venues

We manage two venues: Loading Bay and The Beacon.

Loading Bay is our multi-storey, city centre venue in Bradford. It’s an arts hub, home to two performance spaces and a gallery.

The Beacon is our community venue. In 2025 it toured to public spaces across Bradford District – and it’s due to return in summer 2026.

Keep an eye on our what’s on page for the latest updates about events and exhibitions coming soon.

Cultural Learning

Our learning programme has offered something for everyone in education across Bradford District.

For teachers and educators, we've created Bradford Made: a wide range of free, downloadable learning resources, for all key stages and ages.

Culture in the community

Since 2024 we’ve been working with communities and artists across every district of Bradford

Our Patch, our free community creativity programme, invites the people of Bradford to learn skills, make connections and unleash their inner artist.

Creative Health

We've worked in partnership with a wide range of organisations across Bradford to harness the transformative power of culture and creativity to address some of the district’s most urgent health and social challenges.

Discover some of the projects we've supported.