Holmfirth Artweek announces charitable donation amount for 2025.
In July this year Holmfirth Artweek returned to the Holme Valley. The event is a much-loved
favourite in the calendar, with visitors able to view and purchase art from a variety of artists
at venues across the local area. This year, as usual, the event hosted returning artists and
welcomed new ones. A proportion of everything sold during Holmfirth Artweek is donated to
local charities.
The Holmfirth Artweek Team is proud to announce that this year a total of £40,000 was
raised; which will be distributed evenly between their two beneficiary charities. Local
hospice charity, The Kirkwood and long-standing charity partner Macmillan Cancer Support,
will each receive donations of £20,000.
Artweek is one of the UK’s largest and longest running annual open art exhibitions. This year
the main exhibition at Holmfirth Civic Hall featured over 400 exhibitors and over 2,000
artworks. Additionally, each year venues across the Holme Valley and beyond join the main
exhibition in opening their doors to create the Fringe. This year over 40 venues took part in
forming the Fringe, bringing Artweek into the community and showcasing a wider range of
work from various artists across a variety of mediums.
Artweek is a truly open art exhibition. There was something for everyone, with a large variety
of styles, subjects, and mediums. In addition, for those wanting to take part there were
workshops running throughout the week, and demonstrations too.
The Holmfirth Artweek Team are passionate about working hard to bring this event to the
community each year and ensuring that causes close to the community’s hearts benefit from
the money raised. The Holmfirth Artweek Team are already on with planning next year’s
event. Next years event hopes to be the biggest to date as the event will celebrate its 60 th
year.
For further information please visit the website: www.holmfirthartweek.org.uk or follow
Artweek on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
For anyone who would like to become a ‘Friend’ of Artweek and attend the Preview event
next year to get a first look at what’s on sale, you can find out more information on the
website.
