Bamford Community Arts and Crafts (BCAC) is a community association for Bamford, a village of about 1800 residents in the Hope Valley, Derbyshire.

We are steadily building up partnerships with local organisations, such as the Bamford Primary School PTFA and the Bamford Senior Citizens Committee, as a way of providing enjoyable community activities and events.

But BCAC has a serious underlying purpose: to provide facilities for learning, recreation and leisure in the arts and crafts “in the interests of social welfare with a view to improving the conditions of life” (as our Constitution puts it) for people in the Bamford area.

Selected events to date:

• Feb 2002 – ‘Pinocchio’, by the Babbling Vagabonds
• October 2002 – BAMFORD FESTIVAL ‘02: nine days of hands-on activities in a range of workshops, exhibitions and celebrations; and professional performances, including ‘A Magical Tour of the Andes’, by Caliche
• Dec 2002 – ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, by New Perspectives Theatre Company
• March 2003 – ‘Beans!’ workshops and performance by Moby Duck
• October 2003 – ‘Carnivalesque’ by The Carnival Band
• October 2003 – December 2004 – The ‘Bamford Living Memory Project’

Core funding for the organisation relies on membership fees, ticket sales, donations and other direct fund-raising.

BCAC is grateful to the following organisations for financial and practical support:

Awards for All

Bamford Carnival Committee

Bamford Primary School Parents, Teachers and Friends Association

High Peak Borough Council

Live and Local

Local businesses (listed in Festival programmes)

Local Heritage Initiative

The Hugh and Ruby Sykes Charitable Trust

Current Trustees:

Jan Beatty, Jenny Mather, Gill Shaw, James Kellie (Treasurer), Jim Smith (Secretary),
Andrea Spurling (Convenor, and Chair of Trustees)