Bradford Culture Company

Registered charity 1194599 · since 2021bradfordculture.co.uk·Bradford·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

Bradford Culture Company's stated focus is the City of Bradford, and its themes are community creativity, artist development, heritage, creative health and cultural capital projects, so work in those areas in Bradford is the best fit.
The annual report gives no grants total, and the only single programme figure is £400 for Do Your Thing Awards micro-grants, so a modest request suits it best; 30 community organisations have been awarded grants between £500 and £15,000.
No application process is published, so contact the funder through the contact shown before writing a proposal.
Nothing published in the annual report or on its website sets out deadlines or how competitive its giving is, so ask about timing when you make contact.
No exclusions are stated, so organisations and individuals working in these areas can consider applying.

Overview

Bradford Culture Company is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1194599).

Bradford Culture Company is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, set up to promote the arts and heritage for the benefit of the public within the city of Bradford. It supports the arts and heritage sector through promotion, representation and development, and encourages public participation. Through the Do Your Thing Awards it has supported over 50 local organisations with micro-grants of £400. Over 30 organisations across Bradford District have also received capital grants from its Cultural Capital Fund.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Bradford Culture Company supports arts and culture across Bradford, investing in people, places and partnerships through grants, skills development and capital projects. It supports community organisations to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in creative cultural activities, and local artists to develop their practice and create more opportunities for people to experience arts and culture. Its work also includes supporting grassroots organisations to sustain innovative heritage work and organisations delivering social-prescribing projects. The approach combines awards with training, mentoring, apprenticeships and other development opportunities, with the aim of strengthening the cultural and creative sector and making culture and creativity more accessible to local people. Its grants have supported both organisations and individual artists.

Themes

Community creativity
Artist development
Heritage
Creative health
Cultural capital projects

Geographic Focus

Priority: City of Bradford.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry, its website or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Bradford

Similar funders

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GiveBradfordMixed deadlinesGave £548k Bradford TridentNo public processGave £20,000 The Harry & Mary FoundationRollingGave £591k Leeds Community FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £3.3M The Frank Parkinson Yorkshire TrustRolling The Brelms TrustRollingGave £613k Yorkshire Sport FoundationNo public processGave £176k Anjuman-E-Jamali (Bradford)RollingGave £40,615 The Oglesby Charitable TrustInvitation onlyGave £2.4M The Keith Howard FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £982k

4 years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2022	£996,802	£698,325	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£1,501,836	£888,327	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£6,286,779	£4,162,927	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£26,834,031	£14,501,614	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.