Culture Connect: Lunch, Peer to Peer Learning and Networking Event

Welcome to Culture Connect, 

This event is the third of our peer to peer learning and networking sessions for the arts and culture community in the Bradford District and we look forward to welcoming you.

We are delighted to introduce our agenda for the day:

Plus...

• Networking over a delicious curry lunch.
• Meet our current Award Winners and find out about the progression of their projects.

You can choose the elements of the day that you would like to join us for - make your selection when you reserve your place. Please feel free to share this link with your colleagues and contacts.

For your diary:

• Venue: Grange Interlink, Summerville Road, Bradford, BD7 1PX
• Date: Thursday 19th September
• Time: 10.00am - registration and networking followed by speakers
• 12.30pm Lunch and networking
• 1.15pm Afternoon workshop
• 2.30pm Close
• The day will be led by our Community Development Managers: Ibrar, Stuart and Shabz.

Morning Session - please welcome our guests:

Family Harmonies Music Band

Kinga and Diogena are a talented mother and daughter duet who have received funding through Bradford Moor Pass in conjunction with The Leap. Kinga is a flautist and Diogena a soprano singer and together they are going to showcase their music and treat you to a delightful and heart-warming experience.

Keyhan Modaressi

Keyhan received a Radical Social Award from The Leap for her project Pathways of Courage. She will be sharing with us her inspiration for her project, how she approached it and her thoughts going forward. 

Kelly Hamilton, Cultural Voice Forum

Bradford Cultural Voice Forum is a facilitated network of over 500 creative people, who work in the Bradford District's cultural sector. They are a member-led organisation that exists to share knowledge, resources, and opportunities. As the Coordinator, Kelly manages the operations of CVF, coordinating bi-monthly events where their members can network, share their experiences, and work together to strengthen Bradford's cultural landscape. She will discuss the core activities of CVF, how they support sector growth, and their ongoing efforts to ensure they are contributing to a thriving and inclusive cultural ecosystem in the Bradford district.

Sarah Ledjmi, The National Lottery Heritage Fund

We are delighted to welcome Sarah who will be explaining the funding opportunities that are available through the National Lottery Heritage Fund.  She will be providing examples of some local projects and answering any questions that you may have around applying for funding.  If you are interested in discussing your own ideas with the Lottery Heritage Fund team do bring your diary as we will also be booking some surgery appointments for early October.

Afternoon Session 

Your Project Close

Many of our Award Winners projects are drawing  to a close we want to take a little time to look at the work that needs completing to make this both a fully rounded piece of work for them and a complete file for us. We'll be looking at what's gone well, what could be improved upon, talking about finance records, monitoring & evaluation and what's next for the Award Winners. This session will be delivered by our Community Development Managers Ibrar, Shabz and Stuart.

Checkout and Equal Opportunities Form

To reserve a place please click on the button (above right).  This will take you to a checkout form which includes the details that we need to reserve your place as well as 10 questions that we use for Equal Opportunities Monitoring and which are required by our Funders.  The Equal Opportunities  questions will be anonymised and held in accordance with our GDPR policy.  Whilst we are obliged to ask all event attendees these questions, each question has a 'Prefer not to say' option.

We are looking forward to seeing you on the 19th September.  If you have any queries in the meantime, please do get in touch with us at info@the-leap.org.uk, otherwise please click on the button above to register your place.  

Kind regards

The Leap