Happy Valley Pride
Nominee Profile
Location: Hebden Bridge
Happy Valley Pride is an award-winning, LGBTQIA+ led and community-driven arts charity for 15,000 audience members and 3,000+ young people annually. We bring together a wide range of ages, sexualities, genders, ethnicities and abilities in a creative celebration of equality & diversity, platforming more than eighty artists and reaching over thirteen thousand people annually. Based in Hebden Bridge we serve not only the LGBTQIA+ communities and allies in the valley of Calderdale, but also visitors from across the UK and beyond. We are powered by a team of five part-time staff, over fifty community volunteers and a board of trustees.
We deliver bold Yorkshire community-led 12-month act of rural LGBTQIA+ leadership, joy & care. Led by our Youth, Access & Volunteer forums, we will activate local schools, partners & spaces to engage 13k+ audiences in challenging hate & celebrating identity, culture and diversity via art and education.
We deliver bold Yorkshire community-led 12-month act of rural LGBTQIA+ leadership, joy & care. Led by our Youth, Access & Volunteer forums, we will activate local schools, partners & spaces to engage 13k+ audiences in challenging hate & celebrating identity, culture and diversity via art and education.