Projects
Disruption Awards
2025 DISRUPTION AWARDS
2024 DISRUPTION AWARDS
PAST AWARDS
Windrush 3D VR Museum Tour
Tackling racial disparities in dementia care
Carer Coaching Project
Focused on empowering caregivers, this project offered coaching and support to help carers recognise and utilize their skills in the workplace.
South Asian Carers Support Awareness video
This project saw the short film ‘Only One Six’ created through discussion between the filmmaker and local people who are carers from South Asian backgrounds living in the Crawley area.
LUTO Digital Memory Wall
Personalised content that sparks recall
Voices of My Past
Reframing auditory hallucinations
Re-Framing Dementia
Explore photography with people living with dementia as a means of documenting their own day-to-day lives
Drawing from Experience
Drawing from experience was a project about how to help people involved in the transport world to better understand and improve the experience of people with dementia who are travelling.
Daylight Dancehall
An intergenerational dance experience. Dancers/dance facilitators and young physical theatre performers learned and then prompted social dances that stimulated muscle memory, built and retained friendships and gave everyone involved a good time.
Rare Dementia Support
The award was to record fifteen conversations between disease and or care experts and people with lived experience of a rare dementia. Experts vary in terms of background, type of expertise and specific dementia.
Dementia Friendly Outdoor Spaces
The idea of this project was to develop a dementia friendly area on their national path demonstration site at Oatridge Agricultural College in West Lothian, Scotland.
Digital Dementia Game
This project was funded by the Trust and is a partnership project between Queen’s University, Belfast, Dementia NI and Focus Games.
ApplyING for a 2025 Award
NOW CLOSED FOR 2025
The 2025 Dementia Disruption Awards will open for applications on 2nd June (2025). There is a dedicated application page available for you to find out more information and apply for an award.
You can also check out questions we are often asked about the awards in the FAQs below. These will help you get a better idea what the trustees look for in applications.
Disruption Awards FAQs
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The Trust is looking for anything that will disrupt the ideas that people have about people affected by dementia, including their carers and people who work with him.
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If you look at the website, you will see that previous awards have been given to organisations, individuals, and charities. Awards are not given for research. You will have to provide some basic information on the application form.
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Yes
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You will only know if your idea is disruptive after looking round to see if anyone else is doing the same thing. Be ambitious and look at projects in other places.
We encourage you to consider creative and impactful projects. We are always looking for ideas that can disrupt or diversify thinking, engage the public imagination and attract funders so that we can give out more funds to individuals and groups in future awards.
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If your existing project is very innovative and you want to do something that goes beyond that level, the Trustees will certainly be interested.
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If you look at the previous projects, you will see that some were funded to completion and others were given initial funding.
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Previous projects have been awarded to individuals. If you are applying as a charity, you will need to be registered. If the application is from a partnership the Trustees will require details of the lead partner and may ask to see a partnership agreement. The Trustees require individuals to provide references in support of the application.
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You cannot apply for pure research, but Trustees will be very interested in new ideas that haven’t been tried before which help us discover new things about Dementia.
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If you are applying as a charity, you will need to be registered.
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No.
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Yes, you can!
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Only one application per organisation is allowed for each funding tranche.
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All applications must be submitted via the form (.docx) on our website.
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Please stay as close to the word count as you can. However, you will not be excluded if you go over by a small number of words (as a guide this could be anything up to 10% of the word count).
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You may do this if your updated or new application is received by the deadline.
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Please contact Advisor@dementiatrust.org to discuss what may have changed from your previous thinking, project or idea.
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Yes, but consider whether your project for this tranche is sufficiently different to your previous project.
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