Derbyshire Makes Creative & Community Grant Awards

The Creative & Community Grant scheme is designed to support a wide range of cultural and participatory activity as part of the wider Derbyshire Makes programme. Grants enable communities to take part through making activities, workshops, exhibitions and commissions, helping to increase engagement in creativity, build skills and encourage sustainable approaches to making.

Following strong interest from artists, community organisations and local groups across the county, funding has been awarded to a diverse programme of projects that will be delivered in towns, villages and neighbourhoods throughout Derbyshire.

Creative & Community Grant Awards

The following projects have been awarded a Derbyshire Makes Community Grant and will be developed and delivered during 2026 as part of the Derbyshire Makes programme.

• Wild Light Walk

• Community Mural at Glossop Town Hall

• Cabinet of Treasures

• The Ripple Effect

• Art Wilding

• Creative Photography in the Peak District

• Bringing Well Dressing Skills to Chesterfield Town

• Drawn to Weave

• Heanor Sustainable School Uniform Project

• The Lady of the Loom

• Derbyshire Makers: Learner to Leader

• Heanor’s Patterned Past

• A Derbyshire Palette

• South Derbyshire in Stitches

• Looking In, Looking Out

• Knotty by Nature: Green Woodworking

• Revolutions: Imagination Train

• Raise Your Flag!

• The Full Grown Academy

These projects demonstrate the breadth and ambition of creative activity taking place across Derbyshire, with a strong focus on participation, skills development and community-led making.

Further rounds of the Creative & Community Grants will be available later in the year, with opportunities for artists, organisations and community groups to apply.