Access all ages competition winners

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition.

We received several hundred excellent entries, and choosing the final winners was very difficult. The shortlisted entries were displayed at Mind's annual conference in March.

The overall winners were:

Creative writing: Eleanor Austin - Folding

Art: Janet M. Waterworth - Flight of the Geese

The shortlist can be viewed below and will be exhibited in London at the end of April and Cardiff in May.

The London event will be held at the ADi Projects Space in Shoreditch between Tuesday 25 April and Sunday 30 April. The exhibition will be open daily between 10am and 6pm and Sunday 12pm and 4pm. All are welcome.

The address of ADi Projects Space is Ground Floor, 81 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3AY (entrance on Rivington Place). The nearest tube station is Old Street on the Northern Line or Liverpool Street for overland and tube services. Contact Natasha Peter on 020 8215 2424 or email action@mind.org.uk for more information.

The Cardiff event will be held at The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, St John Street, Cardiff, CF10 1GJ. It opens on Saturday 14 May and closes on Sunday 21 May. Opening times are 10am to 4pm daily. For further details, please contat Janina Kuczys on 029 20346579 or email her on j.kuczys@mind.org.uk.

Please click on the below links to view each of the entries:

Writing shortlist

Stella Walls 'The trees journey'
Emma Ward 'Generations'
Beryl Izzard 'Access for Ada'
Michele Wolf 'An age old poem'
Pauline Applerley 'Benefits of ageing'
Eleanor Austin 'Folding'

Art shortlist

James A. Hollerbach 'Helping Hands'
Bernie, Mavis, Bob, Victor, Bernard, Marg and Sam from Dove House, Dudley Mind 'Heartache' 
Janet M. Waterworth 'Flight of the Geese'
Belinda Hope 'Minded'
Jennifer Stokes 'Inclusion'
Adam Camster 'Moving on'