The Super Slow Way offers free, family friendly activities all along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in East Lancashire, from Blackburn to Pendle, from canoeing to growing projects and art and music!

We have worked with our consortium partners over the last 9 years to carve out a role in East Lancashire, the wider county of Lancashire as well as nationally and internationally, as a cultural development agency that was previously lacking. We have increasingly developed our programming to address the needs of the communities with whom we work, to become a key strategic partner that works with organisations, artists, residents and local authorities to spotlight and enhance the cultural reputation of East Lancashire.

Our two key long-term projects – the Pennine Lancashire Linear Park and the British Textile Biennial (now a separate organisation) – are two of only a small number of core projects detailed in Lancashire County Council’s recently published Cultural Investment Strategy. These two core programme platforms bring together and elevate our embedded, long-term projects across our communities, providing national visibility, informing cultural strategy, and demonstrating that cultural productivity and active citizenship is flourishing across East Lancashire.

We are part of of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme and hosted by Canal & River Trust.