YOUR HAPPY PLACE CALENDAR OPEN CALL LAUNCH FOR 2025
Derry City and Strabane District Council are inviting local people to share their talents by submitting photos and artwork to feature in the New Age Friendly ‘Happy Place’ Calendar. The calendar will help support older citizens and will be distributed locally as a joint initiative to reach people living within the Western Health and Social Care Trust area. Anyone who would like to have their work considered is invited to share photographs and artworks highlighting their personal ‘Happy Place’. Derry City and Strabane District Council has joined up with the councils in Fermanagh and Omagh and Causeway Coast and Glens, South West Age Partnership along with the Western Health and Social Care Trust and the Public Health Agency to produce the calendar, which will be delivered to 10,000 homes.
Funded by the Public Health Agency to mark Positive Aging Month, the calendar addresses emotional health and wellbeing, encouraging people to age well, and use the Take 5 steps to improve their health and wellbeing - to connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and to give. The competition is open to anyone aged 50+ and entries should feature photographs or a painting (without people) of a special place within the Derry and Strabane Council area. The winning submissions will be shared with 10,000 households and Council will distribute the calendars across the Derry and Strabane area to community and voluntary groups, community centres, libraries and healthy living centres and leisure centres.
For anyone interested in taking part in the competition, please submit your entry by email to [email protected] or alternatively post to Age Friendly Co-ordinator, Derry City and Strabane District Council, 98 Strand Road, Derry. BT48 7NN before 5pm on Tuesday 1st October
Please note that posted entries cannot be returned.