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 them 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!

Our most recent winners were announced at an inspirational ceremony in London on Thursday 26 September 2024. Click here to find out all about the winning groups.

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A Celebration of Humanity

Want to learn more about the Creative Lives Awards?

You can read about some of our previous winners here (PDF) 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!

Why is it worth entering the awards?

Learn from some of the previous winners themselves...

Rachel Parry, Goldies Cymru - Epic Awards Wales winners, 2017
“Winning the Epic Award was a wonderful occasion. Hearing about the other incredible organisations out there doing fantastic work in all sectors was humbling. It was such a proud moment for the charity to receive this award and to be recognised for the hard work that everyone does.”

Guy O’Donnell, Get the Chance - Epic Awards, Celebrating Diversity Award recipient, 2017
“Get the Chance was honoured to be selected as Runner-up in the Celebrating Diversity Award. We strive to reflect the diverse nature of society in our voluntary membership. We learn from our team about barriers to sport and cultural provision and seek to work together to provide responses which are representative of all citizens in the UK.”

Sarah Goodey & Kate Mercer, Art on the Hill Newport - Epic Awards Wales winners, 2020
“We enable participants to celebrate who they are, to promote themselves and their resources in our community, without prerequisite or agenda, other than to champion the cultural profile of Newport. It was a wonderful surprise to win the Epic Award, and the team felt very boosted by this, the generous award and support in-kind. All of the projects nominated have community and togetherness at their core, and it means more to be alongside such amazing projects across the UK. We all learnt a lot very quickly and hopefully made some new friends and potential partners.”