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Thursday 18 December 2025 at 11 PM
We're looking for arts driven leaders and aspiring cultural leaders to join our Board of Trustees, and help shape the future of Bradford Producing Hub.
We are seeking Trustees and a Co-Chair to join our existing Board Members.
We’re excited to be expanding our brilliant board! We are seeking three new trustees, including a co-chair, to join our board on a voluntary basis, to support the running and ongoing vision of Bradford Producing Hub.
It is an exciting time to join BPH as Bradford concludes its successful year as the UK City of Culture 2025. BPH board members will have a major role to play in the future of the company and the district.
Head to Meet the Team to read more about our current board and staff members.
Application documents
Download the application pack
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If you need this information in another format, please email us at hello@bdproducinghub.co.uk
Our aim is for BPH’s board to reflect the demographic of the region and the nation, as well as the depth and breadth of our work in arts development. Board members do not need to be based in Bradford; reasonable travel expenses will be paid, and online or hybrid attendance is possible. Previous board experience is not essential – appropriate training and development are part of the induction process, and we welcome a broad range of experiences and perspectives.
Having delivered an audit of our current board members’ skills and experience, we particularly welcome applications from people with relevant knowledge and experience in one or more of the following:
- Chairing, with an interest in becoming a Co-Chair
- Working at a strategic level across the local and national arts sector (e.g. understanding of place-based or specialist cultural development and policy)
- Being an independent artist (e.g. a creative freelancer or practitioner of any art form)
- Company Finances (e.g. budget management and an understanding of financial reporting, such as management accounts and annual accounts)
- Fundraising and charitable giving (e.g. understanding of the arts fundraising ecosystem and strategies to encourage donations and giving to support sustainability)
At Bradford Producing Hub, we are committed to inclusivity in everything we do. It’s not just important in the artists we support, but ensuring the team we build is as representative of the people of Bradford as possible. We therefore particularly encourage applications from people from the global majority*, who are LGBTQIA+, disabled**, and/or from working-class or low socio-economic backgrounds. This is because people from these groups are still underrepresented in the arts and in our company, and we are committed to challenging this and contributing to positive change.
Why become a trustee?
As a trustee, you have a valuable role in supporting and shaping the work and strategic direction of BPH, and making a difference in an organisation that matters to you.
While the role is unpaid, we cover expenses and provide a role that offers valuable non-executive directorial experience, which includes:
- Professional skills development contributing to career enhancement
- Personal fulfilment through volunteering your time and expertise to an organisation you value, supporting it to realise its goals
- Expanding your professional network while working with like-minded people to support the creative and cultural sector in Bradford
How to apply
If you are interested in becoming a trustee, please read the ‘application pack’ carefully.
If you’d like to discuss this role in more detail, you can email our Executive Director, Lisa Mallaghan, at lisam@bdproducinghub.co.uk. We can also connect you with one of our trustees if you’d like to speak directly with an existing board member.
When you’re ready to apply
- Please send details of your experience and the relevant skills you can bring to BPH, together with a letter of application. Written, audio or video formats are all welcome.
- If you have any access requirements we need to accommodate when handling your application, or at the interview stage, please let us know what these are in your email.
- We’d appreciate if you could also complete our Equality and Diversity Monitoring form.
Applications close: Thursday 18 December 2025 at 11 PM
Interviews: Week commencing 19 January 2026
Our shortlisting and interviewing process
To ensure fairness and inclusivity, we do not anonymise applications before shortlisting candidates, and we reference equality data to balance our shortlist.
This means when we shortlist, we always interview the highest-scoring applicants and may also consider including lower-scoring candidates if we feel there is an imbalance in representation from underrepresented groups. We acknowledge that writing a ‘high-scoring’ application can be a barrier for applicants from all backgrounds, especially those from underrepresented groups. We know application fluency doesn’t directly correlate with competency in the workplace and the ability to succeed in advertised roles. Sometimes, a chance to interview is all we need to really demonstrate our experience, skills and fit within an organisation.
We also know that not everybody’s strengths lie in interviewing. We therefore provide the interview questions in advance to everyone selected to interview, to give them the best opportunity to demonstrate their skills, experience and ideas. We may ask interviewees to prepare something in advance, and if this is the case, we will do what we can to ensure you have enough time to prepare. We’ll also allow you to present in a way which suits you best.
At least three people will interview you, and we will aim to tell you who they are in advance.
Definitions of terms
*The category of people in the global majority includes, but is not limited to, people of Black Caribbean, Black African, South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Arab, Latinx, Jewish, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds.
**The category of disabled people includes, but is not limited to, those who define themselves as disabled people, as people with long-term health conditions, as deaf, Deaf, neurodivergent or in relation to their health-related access requirements.