Glossary

How a project or event is defined based on its artform or additional category. Some projects will incorporate multiple categories.

Artist working in a venue, organisation or community group responding to the space and/or people and making work that is specific to that setting.

Work that is not funded by BD25 but forms part of our programme, either through partnership (e.g. BBC events) or for another strategic reason (e.g. Dance Consortium – international programme, audience development and profile raising)

See Audience

The people attending an event including live, streaming, digital, and broadcast.

The size of the audience at an event.

Broadcast content can be a live event or a pre-recorded programme but the audience needs to tune in at specific times to access the content.

See Training & CPD

A capital project is a long-term investment to create, acquire or improve a tangible asset such as buildings, infrastructure, equipment or facilities.

A cartogram gives each area of a visualisation the same impact.

Designation of audience and participants based on age range (up to and including 25 years old).

Working in partnership with another organisation, we pay and delegate delivery to external organisations/artists. We will have a contract in place with agreed outcomes, milestones and deliverables.

The practice of collaborating with other stakeholders to guide the design process.

We collaborate with one or more external organisations/artists to deliver a project together.

Programme partnerships and co-productions with national and international companies/ organisations.

Delivery that is delegated to external organisations/artists.

Working with communities.

People paid to take part in a project to deliver creative activity or directly benefitting from the project in their role as a creative or cultural practitioner.

Creative approaches and activities which have benefits for our health and wellbeing.

Includes work with schools, home educators and alternative providers.

Audience that experiences a creative product designed to be experienced through digital technology or a digital platform.

People taking part in a digital activity or an activity designed to be experienced through a digital platform.

Creative content that is digital but which might be experienced either through a digital platform (so has a digital audience) or in real life (so has a live audience). Not all digital projects will be exclusively digital.

Diversity is understanding that each person is unique. It means embracing people’s differences, including their beliefs, abilities, preferences, backgrounds, values, and identities.

Arts Council England (ACE) define frequent engagement as at least 3 to 4 times a year or more (this could be any combination of cultural events/ activities).

Engagement activities which are in the strands of Bradford Made, Community Participation Projects and Cultural Learning Projects

Equality means offering the same rights and opportunities to all people.

An instance with a defined start and end date and time.

A temporary exhibition (containing more than one piece of work) of work over a period of time in one space.

May be used for promotion of events but not a formally defined category for audience evaluation purposes.

Combination of stalls/events/performances of multiple art forms usually over a limited time period.

This is used to refer to all ethnic groups except white British and other white groups. The term includes people from Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic groups who are often racialised as 'ethnic minorities'.

See cartogram

Index of multiple deprivation - this is is a relative measure which enables areas to be ranked and compared with others in terms of their deprivation levels. These are often presented as quintiles (five groups) or deciles (ten groups).

Inclusion is an extension of equality and diversity. It means that all people, without exception, have the right to be included, respected and appreciated as valuable members of the community.

A measurement of ‘depth’ of participation.

An exchange, visit, exhibition, residency, commission or event involving artist/s or organisations from outside the UK and UK artists and organisations going overseas to visit, research, exhibit and deliver events.

Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) are geographical areas defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for census statistics.

What effect Bradford 2025 has on the district from 2026 to 2030 (and beyond).

Major in some/all of scale, investment, visibility, and impact

New direct and indirect jobs will be measured via the Economic Impact Assessment.

The control and sequencing of code operations in a pipeline.

People taking part in or contributing to the project, going beyond being audience members. This might include taking part in a workshop, performing in a community show, joining a class or taking part in a digital activity.

A type of event. Any instance of a performance that we deliver. One theatre piece that has 10 performances = 10 events.

Code which extracts and processes data.

Work and/or performances not produced or commissioned by Bradford but presented as part of the 2025 programme

Projects that are developed and delivered by the Bradford 2025 producing team.

Social prescribing is a key component of Universal Personalised Care. It is an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing.

Any digital technology that allows people to share ideas, information and thoughts via online communities and networks.

Describes art that is collaborative, participatory and involves people as the medium or material of the work. Establishes a meaningful connection with the people as part of the work.

Any media content (live or recorded) delivered to computers and mobile devices via the intranet and played back in real time. Streaming operates on a one-to-one basis, allowing audiences to access content at their convenience (on-demand).

Those who experience recorded or live content delivered to a device via the intranet.

Activity that supports professional development in the cultural/ heritage/ education sector.

Ticketed events in the Bradford 2025 programme are those that require people to book tickets in advance.

Training sessions/activities provided to adults as part of their wider vocational training.

People who come to Bradford District in 2025.

Those supporting or benefitting from the project in a voluntary role.

Wards are geographic subdivisions of a local authority area.

What Bradford 2025 will deliver.