Spring 2022 newsletter - Great Place Lakes & Dales

Jess Prince – 42 Degrees

If you’re wondering where the name 42 Degrees came from and what the festival is all about, they perfectly sum up their ethos here: Sunlight strikes raindrops from all angles. But there’s one that’s different, one that produces a rainbow: 42 degrees. From here, the light scatters into the colours we love, and each rainbow…

Matilda Walden

Creativeness, talent and giving back to the community must run in the Walden family! Billy’s younger sister and GPLD Creative Champion Matilda Walden recently beat the world record for the fastest time to assemble a Mr Potato Head, completing the challenge in an impressive 5.69 seconds! She managed to raise a large amount of money…

Billy Walden

For those of you who may not know, back in 2021 Billy became a contestant on Channel 4’s ‘Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker’, gaining recognition for his attention to detail and his already impressive achievements for someone so young. Billy first started having an interest in carpentry at about 8 years old when he used to…

Folded Zine Overview and Issue 5 ‘Reflection’

As many of you may be aware by now, Folded Zine, supported by GPLD and The FOLD, are about to release their fifth issue centred around the theme of reflection. For those who are unfamiliar with Folded Zine, it was created during the height of the pandemic and restrictions of 2020. It was created by…

How we’re supporting Forge Festival

As part of Nurturing Creativity, we are supporting The Knotted Project with their latest project Forge Festival. This is an ambitious, two year project helping young people in Cumbria to emerge from the pandemic, feeling creative, inspired & capable of shaping their futures. Artists will work with diverse groups of young people aged 14-25 to…

Skipton Watch This Space Overview

After the success of our Watch This Space project back in phase one, we’re supporting HAZ (Heritage Action Zone) to develop it further, specifically targeting Skipton businesses and organisations. By the end of the project, we’re aiming to have developed a network of spaces in Skipton to support creatives and community groups to deliver creative…

Nurturing Creatives Micro-Commissions

At the end of January 2022, we announced applications for our new Nurturing Creatives Micro-Commissions. Open to individual creatives or groups looking to develop an artistic piece of work to be exhibited in 2022, they offer a chance for 16- to 34-year-olds to expand on any ideas in response to the pandemic, and/or those that…

Review of Phase One

While we may be looking forward to our Nurturing Creativity project and beyond, it’s important we look back and critically appraise what we achieved in phase one of the Great Place: Lakes and Dales programme and share our learning. Through initiatives such as the Play Work Stay residential, Innovate Your Offer workshops and A Future…

Nurturing Creativity – our work in 2022

We were thrilled to be awarded Arts Council funding last autumn to help continue our work to support young people and creatives in the Lakes and Dales until the end of 2022. Our new project ‘Nurturing Creativity’ will focus on two strands; Youth Voice & Representation and Creative Careers, supporting young people in becoming advocates…