Bradford will offer a new definition of art, culture and heritage that reimagines our District as a place that is knowingly different and radically alternative.

A place to realise new ideas, where creativity is celebrated in every home and on every street corner and where we will prove the positive impact of culture in everyone’s lives.

 
 
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We have ten targets to measure our progress against over the next ten years

 
 
 
Give every primary age child in the District the opportunity to learn the District’s story through co-creation of a Bradford Curriculum
Adopt the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals to measure our success not only in carbon reduction but also in equalities, decent jobs, good education, wellbeing and reducing poverty
Create a calendar of high-quality festivals and events with local, national and international significance, with a view to Bradford District being designated UK City of Culture 2025
Increase the number, range, scale and ambition of arts, culture and heritage activity and partnerships, creating 3,000 jobs in the District and increasing visitor numbers and spend
Draw 50% of Bradford’s creative workforce, audiences and cultural leadership from people currently underrepresented in the culture and creative industries sector
Ensure that 70% of people will be ‘satisfied with the range of cultural activities in the District and near to where they live’ (50% in 2021) and that 80% of people will feel culture in Bradford ‘represents me and my life’ (50% in 2021)
Realise capital projects that will rehouse, reimagine and repurpose the District’s cultural and heritage assets 
Give 250,000 people in the District’s most deprived wards the opportunity to get involved with arts, culture and heritage activities
Level up national investment per capita to match other major English cities
Regularly engage 70% of people in the District in arts, culture and heritage activities