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!

Imagine! Belfast

Imagine! Belfast

Imagine! Belfast is a grassroots non-profit organisation that runs an annual week-long festival to stimulate fresh ideas on civic activism, culture and politics. It aims to discuss and interrogate issues that are squeezed out of our usual political discourse.

As well as a hugely successful virtual festival of 115 events held in March 2021, which attracted a 133% increase in attendees on the previous year, the festival also included a number of special projects that involved participatory and creative contributions from members of the public.

The projects managed to invite people to look back over the challenges of the previous year, look forward to what kind of future they would hope for and also recognise the potential in the here and now.

"As a special project for the 2021 festival, we invited people to send us their top three proposals for change. We were delighted with the response from the public, with over 300 ideas received, and we’ll be encouraging policymakers to consider these proposals in the years ahead." Peter O'Neill, Imagine! Belfast

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