Micro-commission Opportunity: Miners’ Welfare Banner

An artist to co create a large scale community banner celebrating the heritage and present day role of miners’ welfares.
Someone confident working with community groups across former coalfield areas, including people with lived experience of physical and mental ill health.
A creative practitioner able to design and deliver engaging workshops shaped by our capabilities approach.
An artist who can explore themes of sports, creativity, leisure, the historic role of welfares, welfares today and community support.
Someone able to produce a durable, exhibition ready banner for display in NCMME’s Welfare Exhibition (February 2027)
We would welcome applications from artists from former mining communities as well as those with lived experience of physical and mental ill health.

Micro-commission: £3,500 (plus travel expenses)

Deadline:
5th October 2026 (by 23:59)

Welfares Reimagined is a two year creative health and heritage project exploring the past and present role of miners’ welfares in coalfield communities, funded by the Museums Association’s Esmee Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund. It is a partnership project being delivered by the National Coal Mining Museum for England (NCMME), CISWO, the coal mining charity, Spectrum People, Creative Minds and the Creative Health Hub at the University of Huddersfield, working alongside former mining communities, including people with lived experience of mental and physical ill health.