Greater Manchester Collaborate Funding awarded to Castlefield Gallery, Portraits of Recovery and designer Joe Hartley for ANEW Decade

Following a competitive application process, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has announced £300,000 of funding for eight culture, creative and heritage projects from across the city-region through the brand new Collaborate fund.

We are excited to announce that one of the selected projects is ANEW Decade, led by Castlefield Gallery, Portraits of Recovery and designer Joe Hartley. All three partners will establish an artist studio, co-production, and growing space with ANEW (Tameside). The studio will be situated in ANEW’s wellness and recovery centre in Denton and the growing space with their homelessness accommodation in Stalybridge. The spaces will host long-term artist residencies designed to embed visual art and creative engagement within substance-use recovery in services and wider community activities. In a bid to nurture new support structures for residents through creativity, the partners aim to connect communities in recovery between Tameside, Manchester, Oldham, and Stockport. ‘ANEW Decade’ is built around collaboration, fostered through a dynamic, distinctive Greater Manchester partnership that brings Greater Manchester innovators together from across the arts and cultural, health & wellbeing, and social care sectors, to contribute to positive lasting change for Greater Manchester resident health & well-being, education & skills opportunities, and safer spaces for Greater Manchester.

Image: Seeds and Sow On, ANEW Way to Peel an Orange, 2025. Image courtesy of Joe Hartley