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!

The 2024 Creative Lives Awards are now closed for entries, and voting for the People's Choice Award has finished.

Creative Lives Awards 2024 Ceremony

This year's winners will be announced at our ceremony in London on Thursday 26 September, and we warmly invite creative individuals, groups, and organisations to celebrate with us. Find out more and book tickets for the Creative Lives Awards 2024 Ceremony.

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!

RicNic

RicNic is an arts charity running youth theatre projects across the South East and Midlands. They support young people to form their own theatre company and stage a show.

When the pandemic closed theatres, and all of RicNic’s paid staff were furloughed, the organisation's volunteer trustees stepped in to support the youth companies to create an online cabaret series.

Four concerts were directed, performed, filmed, edited and screened over five weeks. A fifth concert, coordinated by the trustees, gave RicNic’s alumni a chance to get creative again as part of the project. All of this activity has forged a permanent online programme for RicNic and a project for younger children.

"The pandemic threw us a curveball but thanks to the resilience of our young members and our trustees, we now have a lasting legacy which will help many more young people to be creative." Jennifer Holyhead, RicNic

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