Creative Lives Awards

Celebrating the achievements of community-led creative groups

The Creative Lives Awards celebrate the creative groups that enhance people's lives in villages, towns, and cities across the UK and Ireland. Since 2010, we've invited community-led groups to share their activities and achievements, so that we can give you a well-deserved moment in the spotlight.  

Our Award winners all use creativity to bring people together. Groups might take part in singing, dancing, painting, crafting, performing, playing music, or any other creative activity. All of them provide vital opportunities for people to find community, express their creativity, make friends, learn new skills, boost their wellbeing - and have fun together!

The 2024 Creative Lives Awards are now open for entries!

Learn more and check your eligibility

Please read our rules and guidelines, and check the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), before you start filling out your application form. 

Enter the Creative Lives Awards

You can either complete your application form online, or by downloading the form and returning it to us via email at [email protected]. 

The closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Monday 13 May 2024.

Please get in touch at [email protected] if you have any further questions, if you need further support completing your application, or if you need any of the information or forms in a different format. Good luck!

A Celebration of Humanity

Want to learn more about the Creative Lives Awards? You can read about some of our previous winners below and the wonderful work they do, or check out a list of our recent winners here. We hope they will inspire you to tell us all about your group!

Hip Hop for Better Mental Health

Hip Hop for Mental Wellbeing

Hip Hop for Better Mental Health was a collaborative project involving a wide range of creative partners in Wales who wanted to stay connected when the first lockdown started.

The central belief of the project was that hip hop is a positive creative activity for participants’ mental health. From the usual practice of meeting in a club or in the streets, the collective found that moving online enabled them to talk and share much more with one another and reflect on why hip hop created a safe space for them.

For the young people who took part, who previously had more of a passive role, the project enabled them to be part of the creative process and lead on decision making, which in turn gave them the confidence to try new elements they haven't tried before. The project culminated in a filmed work broadcast as a digital evening which reached over 1,000 people.

"What’s amazing is this has led to further collaborations and to us developing Hydro Jam (a hybrid of live and digital). We’re starting to plan Hydro Jam 2022, growing together, making work and being eco-friendly as we develop." Jamie Berry, Avant Cymru

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