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Pioneering creative project 

This award is for a creative project or programme with and for older people that breaks boundaries in some way.   

It could be a project that contributes to changing perceptions of ageing through a performance or exhibition of work created by older people. It might be a programme that explores new ways of using the arts to connect people across the generations, or engages older people who are living with dementia. It could be a project in which older people use digital media creatively. 

The judges will be looking for information about the project or programme and the difference it makes or has made. You should include information about how the project came about and the activities that are offered and tell us about the people who take part and why. If you have any facts and figures about the people the programme has reached and what difference it has made to them, including real-life examples, please include them too. 

Celebrating Diversity  

This award will be given to an inspiring creative project or programme that engages older people from diverse communities. 

It could be a project with, by and for minority ethnic communities, or a programme that engages older people with disabilities, or a project led by LGBTQI+ older people or by a community whose first language isn’t English. This award will celebrate creative work that advances diversity, equity and inclusion. 

The judges will be looking for information about the project or programme and the difference it makes or has made. You should include information about how the project came about and the activities that are offered and tell us about the people who take part and why. If you have any facts and figures about the people the programme has reached and what difference it has made to them, including real-life examples, please include them too. 

Social care and creativity 

This award is for a social care provider that offers an impressive programme of creative activities with and for the older people they support. 

This could be a regular programme of activities in a care home led by professional artists, or an ongoing collaboration between a day centre and an arts organisation, or an extensive creative programme led by social care staff – or a mixture of all of these things. 

The judges will be looking for information about the project or programme and the difference it makes or has made. You should include information about how the project came about and the activities that are offered and tell us about the people who take part and why. If you have any facts and figures about the people the programme has reached and what difference it has made to them, including real-life examples, please include them too. 

Outstanding older artist 

This is an individual award which will recognise an older person whose own creative work is outstanding.  

This could be someone who has had a lifelong career as an artist and who has continued to work into their later years, or someone who has embarked on a creative career later in life. They might work as a professional artist, or they could be a skilled and inspiring amateur.  

The judges will be looking for information about the person’s creative life and work, and about any recent exhibitions, performances or screenings. Please provide any links if their work is available online for the judges to look at, read or listen to. 

Arts in older people’s healthcare 

This award will recognise an arts in healthcare project that focuses on older people.   

As examples, this could be a project led by professional artists in a healthcare setting that seeks to support the health of people living with dementia or other age-related conditions, or it could be a community-based arts project to which older people are referred by their local GP through a social prescribing model. 

The judges will be looking for information about the project or programme and the difference it makes or has made to participants’ health. You should include information about how the project came about and the activities that are offered, and tell us about the people who take part and why. If you have any facts and figures about the people the programme has reached and what difference it has made to them, including real-life examples, please include them too. 

Jill Knox Inspiration Award 

This award will be given to a person who has made a big impact on the creative lives of older people.  

This could be someone who has set up and run a longstanding creative programme for local older people, or someone who has engaged older people creatively during the pandemic. It could be someone who is an artist themselves, or a person who works for an arts, community or care organisation, or a volunteer working in their local community. They could be any age. It will be someone who has shown vision and commitment to help older people flourish creatively. 

The judges will be looking for information about the activities that the person organises or leads, including some facts and figures about the people who have benefited, and some real-life examples of people who have taken part and the impact the activities had on them. 

This Award is made in memory of Jill Knox who was the founder of 24 Carat Gold – an elders dance group based at Dance Base in Edinburgh – and a huge supporter of creative ageing and of Luminate.