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Stories 2: Call out for Expressions of Interest

outdoor performance with fire and an audience

We are excited to invite organisations and creatives from across Buckinghamshire to share their ideas and express their interest in collaborating in an innovative developmental partnership that explores co-creation as a powerful way to bring local stories to life through creativity. Building on the success of Together We Build, this initiative will explore new creative approaches to storytelling. Heritage and cultural organisations will be paired with artists and creative practitioners to uncover and share important local stories in fresh, engaging, and imaginative ways.

This project does not yet have funding. The Expression of Interest (EOI) process will help shape the application that Bucks Culture submits to the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

We want to support innovative collaborations that bring locally significant community memories, cultural traditions, and heritage to life. By capturing and sharing these stories, the project aims to safeguard them for future generations, ensuring that lived experiences continue to inform, inspire, and strengthen our local communities.

Oral histories are a rich source of knowledge, insight, and creativity, and they will sit at the heart of the Stories 2 project. Through meaningful partnerships, the project will enable organisations to uncover, amplify, and celebrate hidden local stories and engage under-represented audiences using creative and inclusive approaches to storytelling, participation, and interpretation.

Projects may draw on existing oral history collections or generate new recordings. All activity should be rooted in co-creation with communities, ensuring that participants help shape both the process and the outcomes. Outputs could include exhibitions, installations, performances, digital works, workshops, or public events designed to engage diverse audiences and extend the reach and impact of these stories.

Programme Aims

To protect and celebrate Buckinghamshire’s community heritage by:

  • Uncovering and safeguarding oral histories that reflect and celebrate Buckinghamshire’s diverse communities, particularly community memories, cultural traditions and stories at risk of being lost.
  • Championing inclusive creative practice in working with oral histories and community memory, enabling under-represented or under-engaged audiences to shape, interpret, and share their heritage.
  • Fostering meaningful collaboration between heritage organisations, artists, and communities.
  • Building skills and confidence in cross-sector partnership working to strengthen sustainable, long-term relationships.

Who Can Apply

We welcome applications from arts, heritage, and culture organisations that want to explore stories and oral histories.  Eligible applicants include formally constituted organisations and community-led heritage groups. To apply, groups must have:

  • A governing document (e.g., constitution)
  • A committee or Board
  • A bank account in the organisation’s name with two signatories

Applicants may apply either:

  • With a creative or heritage partner already confirmed, or
  • Without a partner, in which case the project team can help broker a suitable collaboration.  Please reach out for a conversation to Guy: Guy@buckinghamshirecuture.org

All collaborations must work with a specific under-engaged audience group—people who currently have limited access to or participation in heritage activities due to factors such as geography, age, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, or cultural relevance.

What We’re Looking For

Successful proposals will:

  • Clearly explain which community memories, cultural traditions, and stories will be uncovered and why they matter locally. Priority will be given to stories at risk of being lost.
  • Focus on oral history, whether drawing on existing collections or generating new recordings.
  • Provide a compelling idea for creative collaboration with an artist or creative collective that empowers communities and brings local stories to life.
  • Identify a specific under-represented or under-engaged audience and a thoughtful plan for reaching and involving them in co-creation.
  • Evidence a commitment to inclusion, ethical practice, and community voice.
  • Demonstrate organisational capacity to host and support the project successfully.

Projects can be of any scale appropriate to your organisation and community and should be achievable within the available budget and timeframe.

Support Available

Assuming our funding application is successful, each selected partnership will receive:

  • Project grant: £2,000-£10,000 tbc (to cover artist fees, materials, production costs, engagement activities, and evaluation) for a 6-12 month delivery period.
  • Overarching Project Co-ordinator to oversee and assist with troubleshooting and engagement.
  • Training and professional support for both heritage and creative partners – likely to cover co-creation, inclusive practice, oral histories, ethics.
  • Access to a learning network of participating organisations and artists.
  • Opportunities for showcasing and shared dissemination at regional and national level.

Indicative Project Timeline

Call-out opens                                               30th March 2026

Expression of Interest deadline                    30th April 2026

Funding application submission date           Summer 2026

Decision-making period                               8 weeks

Project delivery period                                 Autumn 2026-Summer 2028 tbc

Expression of Interest Form

Please find the Expression of Interest form here:

Completed Expression of Interest forms should be returned to Guy: Guy@buckinghamshireculture.org by 9am, 30th April 2026.

Contact Details

If you have questions about this invitation, wish to discuss your project with a team member, or need help to find the right partner, please reach out to Guy: Guy@buckinghamshireculture.org

Please contact us if you require this information in alternative formats.

We are happy to accept applications through alternative formats suited to your needs including a film (no longer than 10 minutes) or an audio recording (no longer than 10 minutes).

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Stories 2 – A New Collaborative Journey in Creative Storytelling

artists looking at objects from NDACA
Archive Stories workshop with NDACA

We are inviting organisations and creatives across Buckinghamshire to join an online meeting to explore our proposal for Stories 2, an innovative developmental partnership that explores co-creation as a way to share local stories through creativity.  Building on the success of Together We Build but continuing to explore creative approaches to stories and storytelling, this model will see heritage and cultural organisations paired with artists and creative practitioners to explore and share local stories in fresh and engaging ways.  This project does not yet have funding, but Bucks Culture is proposing to lead a partnership application for funding. 

This project will support innovative collaborations that bring personal stories and community memories to life.  Oral histories are a rich source of information and inspiration, and we want to put them at the heart of this project.  The Stories 2 project will enable organisations to connect with, and amplify, hidden stories and under-engaged audiences through creative approaches to storytelling, participation, and interpretation.  Projects may explore existing oral history collections or generate new recordings, co-creating outputs with communities that could include exhibitions, installations, performances, digital works, workshops, or public events.

Programme Aims

  • Reveal and celebrate diverse voices and lived experiences within our county through inclusive creative practice.
  • Engage under-represented or under-engaged audiences in shaping, interpreting, and sharing heritage.
  • Test creative methods for working with oral histories and community memory.
  • Foster meaningful collaboration between heritage organisations, artists and communities.
  • Build skills and confidence in cross-sector partnership working.

Who Can Apply

We are beginning this process by inviting anyone interested to attend an introductory meeting, where you can learn more and explore the idea with us.  A formal application process will follow.  We welcome applications from arts, heritage, and culture organisations that want to explore stories and oral histories.  Each application must outline a collaboration for a heritage partner and a creative/artistic partner working together.  Eligible applicants include formally constituted organisations and community-led heritage groups. To apply, groups must have:

  • A governing document (e.g., constitution)
  • A committee or Board
  • A bank account in the organisation’s name with two signatories

Applicants may apply either:

  • With a creative or heritage partner already confirmed, or
  • Without a partner, in which case the project team can help broker a suitable collaboration.

All collaborations must work with at least one under-engaged audience group—people who currently have limited access to or participation in heritage activities due to factors such as geography, age, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, or cultural relevance.

Support Available

Assuming our funding application is successful, each selected partnership will receive:

  • Project grant: £2,000-£10,000 tbc (to cover artist fees, materials, production costs, engagement activities, and evaluation) for a 6-12 month delivery period
  • Overarching Project Co-ordinator to keep everyone on track and assist with troubleshooting and engagement
  • Training and professional support for both heritage and creative partners – likely to cover co-creation, inclusive practice, oral histories, ethics
  • Access to a learning network of participating organisations and artists
  • Opportunities for showcasing and shared dissemination at regional and national level.

What We’re Looking For

Successful proposals will demonstrate:

  • A clear oral history focus, whether based on existing collections or new recordings.
  • A compelling idea for creative collaboration with an artist or collective that empowers communities and creates vibrant local storytelling.
  • Identification of a specific under-engaged audience and a thoughtful plan for reaching and involving them in co-creation.
  • Evidence of commitment to inclusion, ethical practice, and community voice.
  • Organisational capacity to host and support the project.

Projects can be of any scale appropriate to your organisation and community and should be achievable within the available budget and timeframe.

Indicative Project Timeline

Information/Exploration Meeting – 9th February 2026

Call-out opens – Spring 2026

Expression of Interest deadline – Late Spring 2026

Funding application submission date – Summer 2026

Decision-making period – 8 weeks

Project delivery period – Autumn 2026-Summer 2028

Find Out More

Join us on 9th February, 11-12.30 on Teams to find out more, RSVP via this link: Stories 2 Discussion – Fill out form

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Creative Catalyst

Empowering Leaders in Buckinghamshire’s Creative & Cultural Sector

Creative Catalyst – Empowering Creative Leaders in Bucks
We’re delighted to launch Creative Catalyst, a new mentoring programme for Buckinghamshire’s creative and cultural sector. The programme is designed to give emerging, established and aspiring leaders the space, tools and support they need to develop their skills, explore challenges, and build confidence in leading projects that make a real difference in local communities.

Over a period of 6–12 months, each participant will be paired with a mentor who can provide tailored, one-to-one guidance. This support will be aligned to a project or challenge the participant is facing, ensuring the mentoring is practical, relevant and directly useful. Alongside this, the programme will provide opportunities to take part in training sessions, networking events and peer support activities, helping participants to grow their professional connections and broaden their perspectives.

Creative Catalyst is open to those at all stages of leadership:

  • Emerging leaders keen to develop new skills and take on greater responsibility.
  • Existing leaders looking for fresh perspectives, guidance and support.
  • Aspiring leaders who may not yet identify as leaders but are motivated to grow and contribute to the sector.

The programme aims to strengthen leadership across Buckinghamshire’s arts, culture and heritage sector, with a focus on building capacity for inclusive, community-led practice. By fostering new connections and providing targeted support, it will empower participants to deliver projects that are accessible, impactful and forward-looking.

With the generous support of the Rothschild Foundation and Heart of Bucks, the costs of mentors, training and networking will be covered, with some additional travel support available.

Applications open 7 October 2025.

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Summertime Get Together

Join us for an afternoon of connection, creativity, and collaboration at Discover Bucks Museum, designed to bring together creative professionals and cultural organisations from across Buckinghamshire.

Event Details:

Date: 10th of July 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury

This welcoming and purpose-driven session will begin with a light lunch and networking opportunity, followed by a short update from Bucks Culture on this year’s Open Weekend and the Wycombe Place Partnership. We will then be joined by special guest speaker who will introduce the work of Outdoor Arts UK and share inspiring opportunities for creative engagement in public spaces.

The afternoon will include opportunities to connect with peers, explore ideas for shared marketing and collaboration, and contribute content for Bucks Open Weekend. Participants will also be invited to take a guided tour of the museum’s current exhibition, Beyond the Stars, for inspiration and reflection.

This event is an excellent opportunity to:

  • Exchange ideas and explore joint opportunities for Open Weekend 2025
  • Learn from national insights on outdoor cultural programming
  • Build sector connections and share best practice
  • Inspire new approaches to audience engagement

Book your place using the form here:
https://forms.office.com/e/MqLjhDVs1d

We look forward to welcoming you.

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Championing Culture

Each year we ask our resident Buckinghamshire creative and cultural organisations to share some data about their work with us. We aggregate this and use the resulting headlines to advocate for culture in the county.

This year we’re changing the way we collect the annual snapshot from Bucks-based cultural organisations.  We have built a new questionnaire to make it easier to share your data and stories, which all help build a collective picture of our impact. This will help us advocate for investment, partnership and recognition – and to shout about our collective achievements. We are sharing this now, encouraging organisations to think about their responses for the period from April 2024 – March 2025.

The Championing Culture Questionnaire can be found here:

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Help make Bucks Open Weekend 2025 bigger than ever!

Open Weekend is back for 2025 – we want as many businesses, groups and organisations as possible to take part.  Join in the fifth year of our vibrant, Bucks-wide event full of creative activities to try out and have a go!  This year we will hold Open Weekend at the end of August – 28th-31st August 2025.

Are you a creative business, cultural organisation or artist looking to reach new audiences, test fresh ideas, and connect with like-minded organisations? Open Weekend is your opportunity to showcase your work, engage with communities, and grow your presence across Buckinghamshire.

With stories and nature as this year’s theme, you can inspire audiences with unique experiences that bring creativity to life.  From ancient folklore and myth to personal reflections and artistic expressions, stories shape the way we experience nature—and nature, in turn, fuels our imagination and creativity. For creative businesses, this is more than an event—it’s an opportunity.

Taking part in Open Weekend is a great way to celebrate creativity, encourage people to try something new and be part of a county-wide showcase. How will you tell your story? Join us and make your mark on Open Weekend 2025.

Submissions for events/activities can be made from Thursday 15th May to Monday 30th June, using the online form at https://buckinghamshireculture.org/be-part-of-open-weekend/

Buckinghamshire Culture is pleased to be able to give out a limited amount of micro grants to support Open Weekend activities and to help make them accessible to all – find out more on our website.

Buckinghamshire Culture acts as an umbrella organisation for independently planned events presented by partner organisations. Getting involved and registering an event brings advantages for the organisers, including: a central ‘What’s On’ page, hosted by Bucks Culture, umbrella marketing, being part of a county-wide event. knowledge exchange and networking with other organisers.

This programme is supported through funding from Buckinghamshire Council and Rothschild Foundation and is delivered with support from Buckinghamshire Council.

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Strengthening Partnerships & Supporting Collaboration 

Our pool of connected creative and cultural organisations, creatives and freelancers has grown considerably since Bucks Culture began in 2019. In light of this we have been reviewing the best way to work together and support collaboration within the county.

Bucks Culture is excited to propose a refreshed partnership structure aimed at fostering deeper collaboration and amplifying the impact of the cultural sector in Buckinghamshire. This strategic evolution provides a dynamic framework to convene cultural leaders, organisations, and creatives, enabling a robust and thriving cultural landscape. 

Introducing: the Bucks Cultural Consortium 

At the heart of this renewed approach is the Bucks Cultural Consortium, a think-tank designed to provide strategic sector input, leadership, and support for creative delivery. This consortium brings together leading cultural organisations, venues, health partners, educational institutions, local councils, and independent creatives. 

The Consortium aims to: 

  • Enable cross-sector collaboration and strengthen existing networks. 
  • Elevate the profile of Buckinghamshire’s cultural sector, attracting funding and investment. 
  • Support talent development from grassroots to established professionals. 
  • Develop funding relationships and explore new opportunities 
  • Foster creative partnerships that drive innovation nurturing access and inclusion. 

In time we aim to establish two dedicated working groups focussed on: 

  1. Strategic Development & Best Practice – Showcasing cultural excellence, identifying thematic conference content and advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives. Linking to Access and Inclusion Manifesto, Stories and our regular Conference.
  1. Funding, Outreach & Commercialisation – Exploring fundraising strategies, creative collaborative projects and embedding work in community settings. 

Introducing: the Creative Culture Network

Recognising the unique challenges faced by small-scale arts organisations, micro-businesses, and independent creatives, Bucks Culture’s Creative and Cultural Network provides structured opportunities to build capacity, develop income streams, and enhance digital presence. 

The network will operate through a number of open Sector Networking events each year, alongside two dedicated, peer-development workstreams: 

  • Marketing & Digital Strategy – Helping participants craft compelling pitches, navigate digital tools, and optimise online presence. Linking to Sector Development Sessions. 
  • Fundraising & Commercialisation – Equipping creatives with the skills to secure funding and develop new revenue streams. 

Session dates are released over the year, blending online and in-person formats to maximise accessibility and engagement. 


This evolution and formalisation of our network and partnership model does not preclude ad hoc meetings, forming project or issues-based groups or meetings, or other ways of working. We hope it will make communications more relevant and ensure that we are offering different services and opportunities relevant to need and capacity.

Let us know what you think..

Bucks Culture invites strategic partners, cultural leaders, and creatives to commit to these initiatives, attend working groups, and actively shape the cultural landscape of Buckinghamshire. By working together, we can increase sector impact, attract investment, and build a sustainable future for culture in the county. 

To express interest or suggest topics for upcoming sessions, please get in touch. We look forward to collaborating with you to create a vibrant and inclusive cultural ecosystem in Bucks.

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Bucks Spark Awards

In November 2024, at our Cultural Collaboration Conference, Bucks Culture ran the first ever Bucks Spark Awards designed to showcase the great work that is taking place in our cultural sector. The judges where impressed by the quality of the submissions received and struggled to choose the winners. The submissions we received spanned the breadth of cultural delivery in our county:

From grass roots delivery to Paralympic heritage, blind-folded baroque experiences to street murals. Heritage-meets-astronomy, to a chair festival, open studios and diverse stories. Revealing hidden artists and a smatter of Shakespeare, music for care, dance for youth, writing from Marlow, and exploring Bucks landscape through a fine art lens…

We welcomed award-winning author, Claire Fuller to make the awards and Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, Lady Howe to present the Judges’ Discretionary Award.

The Awards were made as follows:

Best collaboration

This award recognizes the best project, event or activity that has been delivered collaboratively (by at least two entities) to promote Buckinghamshire’s culture.

Winner – Vache Baroque and Milton’s Cottage

Runner up – Bucks Youth Dance Co and Wycombe Youth Action

Best exhibition

This award recognises excellence in exhibitions or displays related to an aspect of Buckinghamshire’s culture. It could include a new permanent exhibition or a temporary exhibition.

Winner – Fractured Land Collective

Runner up – Amersham Museum

Best Event

This award recognises excellence in a one-off event that has promoted Buckinghamshire’s culture. The event could have taken place digitally, within its own site, or at another location.

Winner – Unbound

Runner up – Astronomy UK

Judges discretionary award for ‘Contribution to Culture in Bucks’

This award was made at the Judges’ discretion and in respect of the scale and longevity of this particular Bucks event, celebrating its 40th year in 2025.

Winner – Bucks Art Weeks

We would like to thank every one who took the time to prepare and submit an application to the first ever Bucks Spark Awards, as well as our panel of Judges, and Claire Fuller and Lady Howe for presenting the awards.

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Bucks Spark Awards Shortlist

Celebrating Bucks Arts, Heritage & Culture – first ever Bucks Spark Awards

Bucks Culture is excited to present the first ever Bucks Spark Awards created to showcase and celebrate arts, heritage and cultural achievements delivered by fantastic, hard-working organisations and voluntary groups within the county.  Submissions for work taking place in the last year were invited across three categories and we are now able to share the inspiring shortlist.

The categories and shortlist for this first year of Bucks Spark Awards are:

Best cultural event:

  • UK Astronomy’s Planetarium at Stowe
  • Unbound Theatre’s Buckinghamshire Shakespeare Festival
  • Visual Images Group’s Bucks Art Weeks

Best cultural exhibition:

  • Amersham Museum’s Marie-Louise in Amersham exhibition
  • Fractured Land Collective’s Fractured Land exhibition
  • Marlow Museum’s Writers of Marlow exhibition
  • National Paralympic Heritage Trust’s The Story of the Games display
  • South Asian Artists’ Community’s Kaleidoscope exhibition

Best cultural collaboration:

  • Buckinghamshire Council’s Local Heritage List
  • Bucks Youth Dance Company and Wycombe Youth Action’s Express Yourself project
  • Chiltern Music Therapy and English Sinfonia’s Safe in Sound project
  • Decreate and Hughenden’s Easter Family Art Trail
  • National Paralympic Heritage Trust’s Global Virtual Museum
  • Milton’s Cottage and Vache Baroque’s Visionaries: a multi-sensory experience
  • Wycombe Museum and Chalk, Cherries and Chair’s Chiltern Chairs Festival.

All of the submissions we received were of an extremely high quality and judging has been very hard.  Our judging panel consists of:

  • Professor Sri-Kartini Leet, Head of School of Art and Performing Arts at Buckinghamshire New University
  • Daniel Williams, County and Diocesan Archivist at Buckinghamshire Archives
  • Pablo Colella, Director and Lead Consultant at Disconnected Bodies
  • Julius Weinberg, Co-Chair at Buckinghamshire Culture.

Pablo Colella said: “I was blown away by the calibre of the submissions for Bucks Spark Awards this year, I am so impressed by the range of events and activities that are taking place in the county.  I feel really lucky to have been selected as the community panel member for the Awards judging.”

The winners and runners-up will be announced at Bucks Culture’s Conference on 7th November, with awards presented by award winning author Claire Fuller and Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, Countess Howe.

We are so excited to share these cultural moments and achievements with partners, colleagues and friends in the sector.  We aim to build a supportive creative community to celebrate these successes and the value that the cultural sector brings to our county and its residents.

You can book tickets for the Conference and/or the Bucks Spark Awards here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-collaboration-conference-bucks-spark-awards-tickets-1006666405317?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Discover Something Extraordinary

Discover something extraordinary this July with Open Weekend

Everyone is invited to explore their creativity, and our varied county, during our jam-packed Open Weekend, 25th-28th July. With 34 contributors running 54 events across Bucks, there is plenty to enjoy. You can take part in free or low-cost activities and maybe try something new or go somewhere you have not been before!

Photograph shows four musicians dressed as superheroes and all carrying instruments
Vache Baroque, History of Sounds

Whether you are looking for something to do with little ones, a chance to try a new artform, time to learn, or time to chill out – there is plenty to choose from. This year’s fantastic programme includes opportunities to watch or join in with singing, dancing, music-making, crafting and much more. You might also visit an exhibition, listen to an author interview, enjoy live music, join a themed tour or explore local heritage. Events are taking place in person across the county, and online too.

See the Buckinghamshire Culture website for the full listing: www.buckinghamshireculture.org/open-weekend-whats-on and follow #BucksOpenWeekend and #TogetherWeCelebrate for social media updates.

This year organisations will be offering a wide range of activities on the theme of Together We Celebrate, inspired by the Paris Olympics and Paralympics 2024. Buckinghamshire has an extra special reason to celebrate as it is the proud birthplace of the Paralympic movement, and this year we have asked our event organisers to think about how they can honour this heritage. This year Open Weekend will be part of Buckinghamshire Council’s wider Together We Celebrate programme of activities and exhibitions themed around our shared advocacy of diversity, inclusivity and accessibility taking place throughout the summer.

A celebration of togetherness runs through all of the 2024 Open Weekend events, and some are offering particular activities to make your own medal (at Hughenden), design a Paralympic poster (at Aylesbury Library), or explore Paralympic artefacts and stories through a new Virtual Museum (online via the National Paralympic Heritage Trust). Please join us in celebrating the power of art and culture to bring people together and develop inclusion and understanding.

Photograph shows five participants from Missenden Walled Garden sitting on wooden benches and showing the vegetables they have picked
Missenden Walled Garden

Bill Morris, Buckinghamshire Culture’s Chair says: “We are so pleased and proud that once again organisations and individuals across Bucks have put together a programme of fantastic events. It is wonderful to see so many activities promoting inclusion and togetherness, and in a Games year, its extra special to celebrate our unique role in creating the Paralympic movement.”

Ruth Page, Buckinghamshire Council’s Head of Culture said: “Open Weekend is a brilliant way to celebrate the range of creative and cultural things you can do in Bucks. It is great to see so many activities taking place with the theme of ‘Together We Celebrate’ and showing how we can lead the way for access and inclusion.”

Open Weekend is made possible thanks to funding from the Rothschild Foundation and Buckinghamshire Council. It is co-ordinated by Buckinghamshire Culture and is delivered in partnership with organisations and creatives across the county.

Garden stepping stones containing mosaic and gem stones on a bed of bark chippings
Garden Stones created by Feedback Global

Further Information

Buckinghamshire Culture

Buckinghamshire Culture is the creative and cultural partnership for the county, developed to drive forward the Buckinghamshire Cultural Strategy. Building an inclusive, uplifting and supportive creative hub, we connect, build and nourish creative individuals and organisations. We share and celebrate the value of creativity and culture to everyone’s lives – embedding it across essential agendas. We harness the power of working together through collaboration and partnership, shaping joint projects that support happier and healthier lives for our residents. Together, we can better celebrate and share stories of our communities and county. More information on Buckinghamshire Culture: https://buckinghamshireculture.org/

Together We Celebrate programme coordinated by Buckinghamshire Council

To mark the upcoming Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games, we are once again asking Buckinghamshire’s communities to join us and our partners in celebrating the county’s unique and proud Paralympic heritage. Our collaborative approach aims to bring like-minded partners, organisations, and communities together to recognise Buckinghamshire as the birthplace of the Paralympic movement. A series of activities and exhibitions themed around our shared advocacy of diversity, inclusivity and accessibility will take place throughout the summer as Together We Celebrate. More information on Together We Celebrate: https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/events/together-we-celebrate-2024/