Customer story · Arts & Culture
From spreadsheets to symphony.
How Bradford 2025 orchestrated 1,000+ events and 25 major festivals for the UK's City of Culture year, all from a single source of truth.
- 12
- Active modules
- 1,000+
- Events managed
- 3,600+
- Contacts in CRM
- 100+
- Platform users
The starting line
The challenge
Planning over 1,000 events and 25 major festivals for the UK's City of Culture 2025 is a logistical challenge on a scale most organisations never face. When Bradford's team began, they were working across scattered spreadsheets, siloed systems, and a tangle of manual processes. Every team had its own way of tracking things, and none of those systems spoke to each other.
Budgets sat in one place, venue information in another, timelines in a third. As deadlines drew closer, the complexity didn't just grow. It multiplied.
“Bradford 2025's mission is to deliver a bold, inclusive, and ambitious year of culture. Achieving that takes more than great ideas. It takes infrastructure that can scale, adapt, and bring people together.”
The future, built on infrastructure
What we built together
Working closely with the Bradford team, Simple Stack customised a platform to power every phase of the programme, from early-stage visioning through to live event delivery. What started with 5 users has grown into a platform supporting a cross-functional team of 100+, all working from a single, centralised source of truth.
Inside the platform
Key modules
Outcomes
Results that matter
Bradford's system is already influencing other European Capital of Culture nominees, proof that the right infrastructure doesn't just support delivery. It shapes what you can dream up in the first place.
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