Working on a project focused on how places support health and wellbeing? This category is likely a good fit.

Healthy Places recognises projects where children and young people shape how environments are experienced in everyday life — including comfort, movement, play, and overall wellbeing.

The focus is on lived experience of place, not just the delivery of a physical project.

This category includes work where children and young people influence:

• How spaces feel and function

• How people move through and use environments

• How places support physical and mental wellbeing

What this includes

• Input shaping how spaces are used or experienced

• Contributions influencing comfort, play, movement or access

• Ideas improving wellbeing through design or use

• Changes that enhance the everyday experience of a place

What counts

Strong entries will demonstrate:

• Clear evidence of improved experience or wellbeing

• Observable changes in how spaces are used or perceived

• Outcomes linked to the day-to-day use of a place

This doesn’t include

• Health programmes not connected to place

• General wellbeing activities without a spatial focus

• Projects focused only on design or construction delivery
  (→ consider the Regeneration category instead)

• General wellbeing activity without spatial relevance

If your work spans multiple areas, choose the category that best represents what was shaped. If it fits within two categories, submit each application separately as an original entry