Situated in Bradford, this museum explores the science and culture of image and sound technologies, including photography, film, television, animation and gaming. With free admission and dedicated galleries plus a cinema complex, it aims to inspire young people and the wider public to engage with media and technology.

National Science and Media Museum

Bradford Theatres comprises four major live performance venues across the district: the Alhambra Theatre, St George’s Hall, The Studio and King’s Hall & Winter Garden. Hosting a diverse programme of drama, comedy, dance, music and family shows, it brings world-class entertainment to local audiences while supporting cultural engagement and community access to the arts.

Bradford Theatres

Based in the heart of Bradford citycentre, this creative hub is housed in a heritage building and offers rehearsal studios, a 170seat theatre, meeting rooms, conference space and creative business facilities. It supports performance, production and artistic activity and serves as a venue and resource for the region’s cultural sector.

Bradford Arts Centre

Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture in England, supporting arts, heritage, literature, performance and museums. Artsmark is its national schools programme/quality standard that enables teachers and schools to embed arts, culture and creativity across the curriculum by planning, developing and evaluating their arts provision.

Arts Council England

Artsmark

Based in Bradford, this national charity supports schools to develop meaningful connections across difference by exploring identity, diversity, equality and community. Their programmes reach tens of thousands of children each year and are designed to support social mixing, respect across difference and improved life chances.

The Linking Network

The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity that empowers children, young people, and adults with the literacy skills they need to succeed.

Literacy changes everything. It gives you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. It opens the door to the life you want. But low literacy is inextricably linked to poverty. Over the last  30 years, the National Literacy Trust has continued to work with people who need them the most, supporting schools, families and communities on a local and national level.

The National Literacy Trust

Authors Abroad coordinates school author visits, festivals and theatre shows both in the UK and internationally, working with some of the country’s most respected children’s authors, poets and illustrators. They are committed to providing high-quality, inspirational author visits that enrich and support educational experiences in schools.

Authors Abroad

Creative Briefs is a Community Interest Company that empowers neurodiverse children through inclusive, design-based workshops. Their programmes are designed to unlock creativity, build confidence and resilience, and introduce practical skills through hands-on projects led by professional designers and tutors. With a strong focus on supporting neurodiverse learners, Creative Briefs offers insight into creative careers and personal development opportunities. Their workshops are accessible to families, community groups, schools, alternative provision settings and EOTAS learners.

Creative Briefs

Alive and Kicking Theatre Company brings high-quality, interactive drama experiences to primary schools across Yorkshire and the north of England. Since 1989, they have used immersive storytelling to engage children from Early Years to Key Stage 2, helping them explore curriculum content through creative, participatory adventures. Their work supports learning, builds community and fosters imagination in both learners and educators.

Alive and Kicking

Get Out More is a Community Interest Company that helps people connect with nature to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Using local woodlands and green spaces, they run Forest School, wellbeing and community programmes that bring people together, build confidence, and support healthier, more connected communities across Bradford and beyond. Profits are reinvested locally to grow impact and access to nature.

Get Out More

LUNG is a campaigning arts charity based in Yorkshire that creates high-impact, verbatim theatre inspired by real-life stories. Working closely with communities, they use people’s own words to develop powerful productions that tour schools, theatres and even the Houses of Parliament. It aims to amplify hidden voices and inspire change through performance, education resources and activism. They create educational and training resources for teachers, social workers and people in power. Their plays are published by Faber & Faber and studied on the AQA GCSE Drama Syllabus. They believe in the value of art to amplify untold stories and the power they have to transform the world around us.

LUNG

A powerful new initiative – ‘Lost and Found: Bereavement, Archaeology and Creativity’ – is transforming how children talk about death, dying, and bereavement. The University of Bradford, in partnership with the Universities of Wolverhampton and Manchester, Child Bereavement UK, and the Child Bereavement Network, have launched the bold new project, building on previous work with secondary learners – dying2talk.org.

The project uses creative methods to co-produce resources with young people, for young people – aimed at building resilience in talking about death, dying, bereavement and loss, and for our younger learners, the lifecycle and celebrating life.

The team is also working closely with teachers and Child Bereavement UK to create resources for schools to help deliver the new curriculum requirement for grief education (within the new requirements for relationships and health education). Renowned children’s author and poet Michael Rosen is contributing bespoke poems to the project to support workshops and engage pupils, parents and teachers through creative expression.

Find out more

This initiative supports schools to teach more books by authors of colour, to increase representation and make literature teaching more inclusive. Through research, resources and book donations, it tackles underrepresentation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers in the curriculum.

Lit in Colour