GET INVOLVED

Get Involved

Wainsgate is not your average chapel.

Tucked into the hillside above Hebden Bridge, it’s a place where radical arts programming meets tea and homemade cake. A place where big ideas grow in crumbling rooms. Where weeds and wildflowers share space with carefully tended graves. Where people come together to make things happen—with their hands, their hearts, and whatever tools are to hand.

Wainsgate is a welcoming, artist-led, community-powered space—and there’s a lot to do.

We’re restoring this extraordinary building bit by bit—fixing stonework, mending windows, uncovering forgotten corners. We’re keeping the graveyard and grounds alive with care and attention. We’re running a year-round programme of performances, residencies, heritage events and workshops—and baking a lot of cake in the process.

We need all kinds of people:

• Gardeners and grave-tenders

• Heritage buffs and restoration specialists

• DIY-ers, painters and menders

• Techies and tinkerers

• Bakers and brewers of tea

• People good at talking to other people

• Fundraisers, designers, and organisational wizards

• Anyone with a skill to share—or a willingness to learn

You don’t need to be local, or experienced, or free every week. You just need to care about places like this. Because Wainsgate runs on people power—and we’re building something generous, wayward, and quietly ambitious.

Interested?

Come visit.