2014 TDF Seven Venue Pre Grand Depart engagement programme City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council grant/Private sponsorship
2014 Commission from CAPE UK as part of Yorkshire Festival 'DepARTures' TDF 2014 to research, write and publish 3 schools learning packs for Le Grand Depart: ‘The Bicycle and Its Green Credentials’, ‘Poised’ and’ Cold Bath, Slow Art’.
2015 TDY CBMDC Culture/Event team tarmac art commissions 3 locations:
Cow and Calf, Laycock and Silsden
2016 Commissioned by CBMDC and TDY to deliver ‘Bradford Peloton’ a mass ride of over 150 cyclists in City Park Mirror pool to celebrate the route launch of the TDY 2017. ASO Race Director Christian Prudhomme always makes time for the Learning-Disabled participants who animate our events
In 2017 we used a CBMDC city centre regeneration grant to open up a huge disused multi story carpark basement and create a grassroots and disability focussed temporary cycling Hub ‘Capital Of Cycling’ right next to the Depart of the Yorkshire Terrier Stage of the TDY2017. Still active in Bradford today after 9 years but in a new venue.
From Capital of Cycling we launched a district wide Land Art animation with local communities in Queensbury and Baildon making the live TV broadcast of TDY 2017
In the rest of 2017 we recieved a Peshawar truck costume commission for Cycling UK , supported 8 disabled cyclists to ride from Bradford to Hamm in Germany (Bradford’s twin citity) and delivered a costume cycle parade to welcome visitors to the 2017 Y Festival in Bradford City Park Mirror Pool
On 21 December 2017 City Connect West Yorkshire Combined Authority commissioned us to develop and deliver a reindeer ride along the newly opened cycle superhighway between Leeds and Bradford. The ride featured the CEO’s of both cities, womens professional cyclists, stars of Yorkshire Rugby League and Cricket and 8 disabled cyclists.
In 2018 Leeds Inspired and TDY commissioned us to develop ‘Leeds Flock’ cycle costume and choreography on adaptive cycles, with costumes made by and ridden by Learning Disabled cyclists from across West Yorkshire. Leeds Flock entertained the audience at the finish village in Millennium Square on race day.
2018 also saw commissions in the event village for Sky Bet creating, filming, delivering and engaging the public in a VR TDF parcours experience on real road bikes and generating a leaderboard of best times.
In Armley we were commissioned to work with Armley Primary, Leeds District Parks and WYCA to create an Armley land art animated by city connect logo chain links made by and moved by the children which was included in the race broadcast.
CBMDC commissioned us to animate finish town Ilkey with our ‘Ilkley Dander’, performing our sheep choreography in and around the race day crowds on the Grove to entertain people in the build up to the men’s and women’s TDY finish. Lots of our sheep even made it up to the finish on Cow and Calf rocks as immortalised here in our sheep photobombing Women’s Stage 2 and overall winner Megan Guarnier.
We finished 2018 with commissions from Big Bike Revival and CBMDC to deliver inclusive adaptive cycling parades at Bradford Festival in August and collaborating with Cecil Green Arts winter lantern parade in Bradford City Centre, building Rudolf, Dancer, Prancer and Donner nighttime lantern reindeer.
In 2019 Tim Curtis became acting head cycling coach for SOGB during the Special Olympics World games in Abu Dhabi, helping the squad bring home a record medal haul.
We were the local curators, engagement team and facilitators for the UK wide NPHT exhibition in Bradford district in 2019.
In September 2019 we won the UCI Road World Championships Land art competition with our animated kinetic Baildon land art, involving SEND students from all 5 Baildon schools and generous community support from grass painting and mowing to fundraising.
In 2023 Tim Curtis was head coach of an SOGB squad of 8 athletes at the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin who subsequently participated in the 2024 European Road Race Championships in Hasselt, Belgium on the closed road finish criterium of the parcours on race day.
In Autum 2023 we were commissioned to take 2 meanwhile use properties and create ‘Speed of Light’ for the BD: LIT festival and Shipley Christmas Lights. An interactive light-based cycling spectacle by our Learning-Disabled cyclists and artists for the general public
In 2025 our SOGB/BC Limitless ‘Wyke Dragons’ was Commissioned by Bradford 2025. From April to November, we employed and worked with Learning Disabled artists, creatives, media teams, performers and cyclists to create a wholesome community public event at British Cycling’s Wyke Circuit. This was the only artist led award of the City of Culture year given to a learning disability, arts and cycling organisation
