Arts, events and festivals volunteering

Community committees allocate funding to both community projects and youth activities. Most Community committees provide small grants of up to £500 and larger grants of over £500.        

Find out more on how to apply for funding. You can also contact the support team on 0113 378 5808.        

Funding Leeds is a public and third sector partnership - helping the voluntary, social enterprise, and community sectors in Leeds find the funds to achieve their vision. For funding opportunities visit the Funding Leeds website. There, you can:        

• make funding searches to tap into local, regional and national funding sources
• get regular updates on your funding area of interests
• take advantage of useful information and local support to help you achieve your funding goals

An informal partnership of arts and culture organisations, freelance artists, and other practitioners facilitated by 100% Digital Leeds with the aim to improve digital inclusion and participation for the arts and culture sector and audiences, supporting the ambition to make Leeds the most digitally inclusive city for everyone.

If you work with children, young people and/or families in Leeds, you can register online to join a huge network of cultural organisations and artists, sports bodies and coaches, schools and colleges, voluntary and community groups and local authority departments.        

All have one thing in common - they all work positively with children, young people and families in Leeds.        

There's a huge directory, an active targeted messaging system constantly circulating information about events, activities, opportunities and news for children and young people and the people who work (and volunteer) with them. There is also a direct link to Breezeleeds.org which means you can promote what you do directly to children and young people in Leeds on their events diary, news and facebook.        

Everyone on the network has provided basic safeguarding and quality of provision criteria to guarantee you are networking with people in the know, working directly with your target audience - big or small.        

Holocaust Memorial Day is the international day of remembrance of 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust, and millions more people killed under German Nazi persecution, and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

The next event will take place on Sunday 25 January 2026 at City Varieties Music Hall. Free tickets will be available from the City Varieties box office in January 2026.

Armed Forces Day in the UK is now marked by hundreds of events held across the country, celebrating the courage and contribution of the British Armed Forces community: from veterans to currently serving troops, reserves, cadets and service families.

The next event will take place on Sunday 28 June 2026, 11am to 4pm on Briggate. Follow us on social media for up to date information:

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