Bradford's UK City of Culture 2025 Bid on The One Show tonight
The Bradford district's bid to become UK City of Culture 2025 will be featured on tonight's episode of The One Show. Tune in to BBC1 from 7pm tonight 20 May 2022.
Find out more about the bid here
If you use social media please show your support and use the hashtags #Bradford2025 and #CityofCulture2025
Lord Mayor's new charity appeal
 Councillor Martin Love has been formally installed as the new Lord Mayor of Bradford for the civic year 2022 to 2023.
Cllr Martin Love and Cllr Matt Edwards have been named as the new Lord Mayor of Bradford and Deputy Lord Mayor of Bradford, respectively.
Cllr Love has chosen to raise funds for the Bradford Hospitals’ Charity BIG Neonatal Appeal. The appeal aims to raise £3million to create extra accommodation for parents to stay close to their babies while they are being cared for in the Neonatal Unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
Platinum Jubilee
Come celebrate the Jubilee with Skills for Work!
 Grab the biscuits and the bunting as the Skills for Work team are putting on a number of free events in May to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Current learners are invited to tea parties throughout the day on Thursday 26 May at St. Peter’s House. This is an opportunity to come together with staff and tutors to share food and fun whilst celebrating the achievements of learners over the last few years.
More information here.
Museums to celebrate the district’s connections to the Queen
 Our Museums and Galleries Service have been combing their archives for items, photos and objects relating to Her Majesty the Queen, her Coronation in 1953 and her visits to the Bradford district to create displays in each of their venues to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee.
At Cartwright Hall Art Gallery people will be able to find out about how the Coronation 1953 in was a key moment in the history of television, with sales of TV sets rocketing in the run up to the event. Twenty-seven million people tuned in on new TV sets to watch and more that 11 million listen to events unfold on the radio.
Bolling Hall Museum will have displays where people will be able to discover the royal connections with popular nursery rhymes.
At Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley and Bradford Industrial Museum you can learn about Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation and her Royal visits to Bradford district. On display will be a wide range of Coronation souvenirs, from tins to tea towels and table cloths, mugs to magazines, a jigsaw puzzle to pencils.
Each of the displays will be on show from Thursday 2 June until early September 2022.
More information here.
Platinum Celebrations across Residential Resource Centres, Extra Care and Community Services
 Preparations are in full swing across the council’s residential resource centres, extra housing care schemes and community care operations in Bradford as people look forward to marking Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The extended June bank holiday will provide an opportunity for all communities to come together and celebrate this huge milestone in history.
Various activities are being planned at the homes from smaller events including tree planting, burying of time capsules and cake baking to larger events such as a trip down memory lane with tea parties, songs, quizzes and a whole host of entertainment.
More information here.
Bradford Great Jubilee Tea
 Get together in City Park on June 2 6.30pm-9.45pm for a big celebration to mark Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, aiming to feature the biggest cake stall in the north, food from around the world, music and entertainment.
All building up to the lighting of the official Platinum Jubilee Beacon.
More information here.
FREE Fun family events in parks across the Bradford district to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee
To celebrate Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee at family fun events in five of our parks over the special long bank holiday weekend.
Each of the FREE events, which are being organised by our Community Sports and Activities Unit, will have fun activities for children including inflatables, a climbing tower, dance, arts and crafts and more.
All the events will run from 11am in the morning until 3pm in the afternoon.
Events and activities in libraries to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee
A whole host of fun and creative activities and events are being held at Bradford libraries across the whole district to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Activities include tea and cake parties, art and craft sessions, rhyme and story time, a teddy bears picnic, a knit and natter session with karaoke, biscuit decoration, afternoon teas, book and film club evenings, a quiz, a Children’s Royal Brunch and even a Queen’s Knickers Party.
All the events are free, although booking is essential for the Children’s Royal Brunch.
More information here.
Organising your own Platinum Jubilee celebrations
We've put together a webpage of information, inspiration and ideas to help you celebrate Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
Anyone organising an event is encouraged to submit details on the official Platinum Jubilee website and also add it to the Council’s What’s On Guide.
Find out about how the district is celebrating the Platinum Jubilee here or follow Bradford Council on social media @BradfordMDC and use the hashtags #BDCelebrates, #HM70 and #PlatinumJubilee.
Bradford must be the UK’s number one levelling-up priority, new prospectus underlines
 This week we launched our new Levelling-up Prospectus created with social value and economic advisory support from Jacobs.
The newly-launched Prospectus underlines why the Bradford district is the primary national priority area for levelling-up investment, and how delivering upon this opportunity could benefit wellbeing, resilience, and prosperity from a local through to a national scale.
According to Etopia’s recent Levelling-Up Opportunity Index, levelling-up Bradford District’s performance against socioeconomic metrics to the UK average, in areas such as income, productivity and skills and qualifications, would facilitate a greater impact upon the national economy than levelling-up any other large town or city.
The new Prospectus demonstrates how the district is primed to act as a national testbed and ‘pilot’ a programme of Levelling-Up Investment Areas. Through a series of projects and aspirations that would strengthen social, environmental and economic outcomes across the District, the report demonstrates why Bradford is pivotal in achieving the Government’s national ambitions of levelling-up.
New trees planted on Highfield Lane, thanks to trees project
 Seven new trees have been planted at Highfield Lane, Keighley as part of 40 new trees being provided for the district by Trees for Streets.
We joined the Trees for Streets initiative last July. The national scheme, run by urban tree charity Trees for Cities, aims to plant thousands of extra trees on streets in urban areas through the sponsorship of residents and community groups, supplementing council tree planting budgets.
In addition to this, Trees for Streets has given the council a £10,000 grant to plant 40 trees across the district, which has come from the Green Recovery Challenge Fund.
Our Trees and Woodlands Team has selected location for these 40 trees in areas around the district where there are fewer trees, so that residents can enjoy the environmental benefits of trees, such as more shade, improved air quality and a sense of wellbeing.
The seven new trees on Highfield Lane – three blossom cherry and four wild cherry trees - are the first of these new trees to be planted. The others will be planted at the Sue Belcher Centre, also in Keighley.
Holme Wood community centre cuts energy costs thanks to climate grant
 A Bradford community centre is seeing big reductions in its energy bills and helping local residents cut down on their own costs, thanks to receiving a share of a special Bradford Council fund last year.
The Sutton Community Centre, in Holme Wood, received a grant of £4,500 from the Climate Change Fund for its Brighter Lights project. The aim of the project was to replace 65 light fittings, in the building on Kyffin Place, with LED lights.
The Climate Change Fund was promoted last year – a fund of £360,000 available for community groups and organisations to apply for grants of up to £5,000 for projects which would reduce carbon emissions, educate and raise awareness of the climate emergency or respect and protect green spaces. A total of 65 organisations were awarded grants.
Gardening group growing together
A new community allotment has been set up to encourage all those green fingered volunteers to come forward.
The group has been set up specifically for those people living with a visual impairment who can take part and get involved in growing their very own fruit and vegetables as well as potting some seasonal plants.
Organised by the visual impairment team which is part of Bradford Council’s Sensory Needs service the community garden will allow members to share gardening tips and a cup of tea.
A ‘Growing Together’ allotment open day was held on Wednesday 18 May where volunteers and members came together to launch the project and meet new volunteers.
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