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We are here to help arts and heritage thrive. We want to bring people together around culture. Our agenda is shaped by the needs of our clients, and the needs of their audiences. This simple integrity characterises our work.
Wafer Hadley was established in 2006. The Company is led by its two Directors, Kate Wafer and Daniel Hadley, and has built a network of trusted associates with whom it works according to the brief. The Company’s consultancy style is open and collaborative, and thoroughly grounded in audience need.
KATE WAFER
Kate has been Director of Wafer Hadley for the past eighteen years. In that time she has led some of the Company’s key projects, building a considerable amount of personal experience as consultant, researcher, and facilitator. Previous to her work with Wafer Hadley, Kate was Executive Director of Audiences Yorkshire, the regional audience development agency. She began her cultural career in local authority community arts, building on a CV which included wine guide, knitwear model and jillaroo.
DANIEL HADLEY
Daniel co-founded Wafer Hadley with Kate in 2006. Since then he has led on a diverse range of projects, building a creative and effective approach to strategic development in the cultural sector. His background is in marketing and communications, working in contemporary dance, opera, cultural policy and in his own consultancy business, Hadley Creative Marketing. Daniel’s cultural career began in Arts Council England’s highly competitive fast-track traineeship. He has also worked as a fieldworker, hotdog salesman and wildlife gardening correspondent.
PAST CLIENTS
Alchemy Anew | Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland | Ambassador Theatre Group | Arts Council England | Art Fund | Audiences Wales, Cardiff | B&W Studio, Leeds | Barber Institute of Fine Arts | Barton Heritage Partnership | Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council | Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage | Breaking Barriers | Bronte Society | Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council | Castlefield Gallery | Chapel FM | Creative Scotland | Coventry City of Culture | Coventry Cathedral | Decibel | Department for Culture Media and Sport | Department for Education | Doncaster Borough Council | East Riding of Yorkshire Council | English Heritage | Eureka! National Children’s Museum, Halifax | Exeter Cathedral | FACT, Liverpool | Ferens Art Gallery, Hull | From Shore to Shore | Fulneck School, Leeds | Grain, Library of Birmingham | Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool | GoSLAM, East Midlands | Guild of St George | East Midlands Museums | Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association | Hull City Council | Hull Urban Regeneration Company | Humber Museums Partnership | Imagination Museum | Impressions Gallery, Bradford | Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust | Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire | Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge | LAMP WY Group of Museums (Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees, Calderdale, Wakefield) | Leeds 2023 City of Culture | Leeds City Art Gallery | Leeds Cultural Institute | The Leeds Library | Leeds Museums Service | Ludus Dance, Lancaster | Maths World UK | Museums Sheffield | Nab Wood School, Bradford | National Centre for Early Music, York | National Media Museum, Bradford | National Poetry Centre | NESTA | North Doncaster Development Trust | North Lincolnshire Council | North Yorkshire Moors Railway | On Fife | Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool | Opera North | Oriental Arts | Photoworks | Ripon Museums Trust | The Ropewalk | Royal Armouries | Sandwell Borough Council | Scarborough Council | Sea Swim | Sheffield University | Society of Antiquaries of London | SQW Consulting | Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds | The Audience Business, Edinburgh | The Culture Company | The Peace Museum, Bradford | Thompson Design | Touchstones, Rochdale | Urban Splash | University of Cambridge Museums | University of Leeds | University of Salford | University Museums Group | Wakefield Council | West Yorkshire Archives Service | York Minster | York Museums Trust | Yorkshire Museums Hub | Yorkshire Building Society