Funding Opportunity - Improve Publicly Accessible Spaces

17th March 2014

Carnegie UK Trust Launches Carnegie Prize for Design and Wellbeing (Scotland & Northern Ireland)

The Carnegie UK Trust has announced that it is calling on local communities across Scotland and Northern Ireland to play a greater role in the development and design of their local area. To help, an £11,000 pot of funding is being made available with the launch of the first ever Carnegie Prize for Design and Wellbeing.

Successful applicants will each receive a share of the prize money as they make their plans a reality; three runners-up prizes of £2,500 will be awarded, with the overall winner receiving £3,500. This challenge is about improving the lives of people across Scotland and Northern Ireland and we hope the funding helps stimulate ideas, creativity and above all encourages communities to come together to think of ways they can improve their surroundings. Winning projects should demonstrate how good design can create opportunities for improved health, local regeneration, skills development, community enterprise or social interaction.

The competition is open to any community group or registered charity-led project that will improve a publically accessible space, such as a pathway, or park and that will be completed before the end of September 2014.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on the 17th March 2014.

http://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/changing-minds/people---place/carnegie-prize-for-design-and-wellbeing.aspx