🚨 Artist/Designer Opportunity
As part of the ReCITE project, Netherton Dementia Community Innovation Team is seeking a creative to co-develop artwork for an exciting new dementia awareness campaign.
This project will:
🎨 Create a visual roadmap of the dementia journey
🧩 Challenge stigma & myths
🤝 Be co-designed with local communities
💷 Fee: £4,500 (plus £700 for Learning Event poster)
🗓 Deadline: 15 September 2025, 3pm
📧 Apply by sending a short statement (around 500 words) + examples of your work to: deb.blakemore@seftoncvs.org.uk
👉 Full details below:
Background
ReCITE is a public health research project that helps communities in Liverpool, Knowsley and Sefton bring about change and fix unfair differences in health. The project is run by local artists, healthcare workers, community leaders and researchers. We work with people who find it hard to engage with and/or access health services or information and have poorer health as a result. We work together to find creative and engaging ways to build trust in health services, address any fears people have, and make sure communities get the right information to make informed health choices. Multiple community innovation teams have been formed across the three boroughs to address health inequities. The overall ReCITE programme is led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (Feb 2024- Jan 2027).
Dementia Facts
There are over 55 million people worldwide living with dementia, with nearly 10 million new cases every year. In the UK, there are over 982,000 people living with dementia and it is the leading cause of death. Dementia is caused by diseases of the brain and is an umbrella term that describes a collection of symptoms. There are over 100 different types of dementia but Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia are the four main types. Dementia is not just about losing your memory, it also affects things like communication, attention, personality, movement, and vision. Whilst age is the biggest known risk factor for dementia, it is not a normal part of ageing. In fact, staying mentally, physically and socially active can help lower the risk of developing dementia by up to 40%. In the UK, around a third of people who have dementia are going about their life without a diagnosis. However, timely diagnosis can improve quality of life, provide access to support, and even slow progression. People with dementia can still enjoy life, relationships, and meaningful activities with the right support in place.
Local Context
This project is designed and delivered by a collaboration of stakeholders who have formed a Community Innovation Team (CIT). The team is led by Sefton CVS in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders including the local Alzheimer’s Society, Feelgood Factory, Glovers Lane GP Practice, Healthwatch Sefton, ICB, L30 Community Centre, Living Well Sefton, South Sefton PCN, Sefton Public Health team, and National Museums Liverpool House of Memories. The CIT has also recently recruited community members who have been affected by dementia and would like to be involved in the co-design of the hyper-localised dementia awareness campaign targeting the general population of Netherton. Local routine data and local insight data collected by the CIT highlights a health inequity in the low dementia diagnosis rate in South Sefton.
