We are Freshly Greated

A vibrant programme bringing arts and culture opportunities to people based in Great Yarmouth, uk.

Explore the topics below to learn more about our work, or follow us on Instagram and Facebook to see how you can get involved!

about us

  • Freshly Greated is Great Yarmouth's Creative People and Places (CPP) programme, funded by Arts Council England. We are on a mission to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to experience, create, and shape high-quality local arts and culture, regardless of their background or previous experience. 

    We believe that creativity belongs to everyone. Rather than delivering arts to communities, we work with the communities, building long-term relationships that enable local people to influence, commission, create, and lead cultural activity across Great Yarmouth. Our Community Producers, artists, young people, and partners work together to make arts and culture more relevant, more welcoming, and better representative of the people who live here. 

  • Great Yarmouth is home to extraordinary creativity, talent, and community spirit, yet many residents face barriers to engaging with arts and culture. Freshly Greated exists to remove those barriers by bringing creativity into neighbourhoods, creating opportunities close to where people live, and supporting local people to shape the cultural life of the town. 

    Our aim is to help people feel more connected, more confident, and more proud of where they live.  


    Our guiding principles are: 

    • Inclusion – Everyone should have the opportunity to experience and shape culture.

    • Active Research – We listen, learn, and evolve with our communities.  

    • Art Where People Are – We bring creativity into the heart of everyday life.  

    • All Art is Valid – We champion diverse artforms, artists, and ways of being creative. 

  • Freshly Greated delivers year-round creative opportunities across Great Yarmouth, including: 

    • Community-led festivals, events, and neighbourhood celebrations.  

    • Artist commissions and creative workshops.  

    • Outdoor arts, music, theatre, dance, and visual arts.  

    • Creative health and wellbeing projects. 

    • Our Space – a regular creative programme supporting young people's wellbeing and confidence.  

    • Play Produce Promote – developing the next generation of local musicians, producers and creative leaders.  

    • A growing network of Community Producers who help design and deliver the programme alongside the Freshly Greated team, professional artists, and local arts and cultural organisations. 


    We are committed to values of inclusivity and embracing diversity. Regardless of age, gender identity, race and ethnicity, cultural background, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive abilities, and religious or spiritual beliefs, everyone deserves access to creativity and community.

WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED so far

Over the past six years, Freshly Greated has become one of Great Yarmouth's most prominent community-led cultural programmes. 

We've built trusted relationships with communities which are often overlooked, worked with incredible local artists, organised hundreds of free events and workshops across several areas of Great Yarmouth, and encouraged both young people and adults to experience arts and culture in new and exciting ways. 

In 2026, we asked our Community Producers (volunteers from the local community who help to shape and deliver our programme) for their thoughts on Freshly Greated’s work. Here’s what they had to say…

FROM OUR COMMUNITY PRODUCERS…

Alongside these achievements, our programme continues to successfully reach the communities that Creative People and Places was designed for. Around 73% of our participants come from audience groups reported as the least likely to engage with arts and culture and 84% live within our priority neighbourhoods across Great Yarmouth.

  • 'Freshly Greated is better for my mental health than going to the doctors’

  • ‘When you say, we’re Freshly Greated, that really means something – and when we go and help at all these different events, we wear our Freshly Greated t-shirts with pride’

  • 'The whole team have built up the best relationships within the community because they actually took the time to listen to them.'

  • 'They've simply put on some of the best community events that Great Yarmouth has seen in a very long time!'

  • 'I love what they do. They make everyone feel welcome and bring the community together. The streets have been much more fun with them around'

  • 'Freshly Greated is probably the best thing to happen to Great Yarmouth in 16 years'

  • 'The events that Freshly Greated have created have all had a really warm friendly community vibe to them. Once you've been to one event, you're guaranteed to want to go to more.'

To see what events, workshops, and opportunities we have coming up, head over to our Instagram and Facebook. If you would like to get in touch with the team at Freshly Greated, use the ‘Contact Us’ button at the bottom of this page, or reach out to us on our social media. 

It’s time to make arts, culture, creativity, and community accessible to everyone, and that includes you.