The Carnegie Prize for Design and Wellbeing

The Carnegie UK Trust 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 £11k 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.

The prize has been launched in partnership with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) and the Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA) and will celebrate how well designed public spaces, created with and for local people, can improve local resident’s health, provide new spaces for people to meet and promote community enterprise and regeneration.

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.

To enter you will need to complete a simple of expression of interest form telling us in no more than 150 words why you should win.The deadline is the 17th of March. The form is available to download here. To find out more please visit our website, download the prize leaflet here or get in touch with [email protected].