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Life & Time Art Competition 2025

September 17, 2025 Advance Care Planning, Community Engagement, Competition, Events, Life & Time, Palliative Care, Uncategorized
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Children’s Art Competition 2025

Celebrating Memory, Care and Community through Art

Life & Time is delighted to launch our 2025 Children’s Art Competition, marking Palliative Care Week. This competition gives primary and post-primary pupils the chance to express themselves creatively and reflect on what care, compassion, and memory mean to them.

Winning entries will be featured in the Life & Time 2026 Calendar, with prizes and calendar production generously sponsored by John MacMahon & Co – Chartered Accountants and Auditors.

🎨 Scenarios / Themes

Children can choose one of three scenarios for their artwork:

  • Scenario 1 – Favourite Memory / Grief

    Draw a favourite memory of someone who has died: a shared activity (baking, farming, fishing, fixing things), or a special place that reminds you of them.

    (If a child has not experienced loss, they may draw a pet, or choose another scenario.)

  • Scenario 2 – Care in Your Community

    Care can be found everywhere – in the kindness of a friend, the warmth of family, the love for a pet, or the beauty of the world around us. The Life & Time team of nurses and doctors also provide care at night-time in people’s homes.

    Draw a picture that shows what caring looks like to you.

  • Scenario 3 – What Palliative Care Means to You

    Palliative care is support that improves quality of life for people with life-limiting illness. It may come from doctors and nurses, but also from family, friends, or even pets. Create a drawing of what you think palliative care is, or what life should be like when someone is well cared for.

⚠️ Note for Teachers & Parents

We recognise that themes of grief and loss can be sensitive. Participation in any scenario is optional, and it is up to teachers or parents to decide which theme is most appropriate. All entries will be judged equally, no matter which theme is chosen.

📅 Key Dates

  • Monday 13th October – Final postal deadline to Life & Time

  • Friday 17th October – Artwork collection from schools

  • Tuesday 29th October – Judging

  • Friday 21st November – Winners announced & presentation evening at Warrenpoint Golf Club (7pm, with light refreshments)

🎁 Prizes & Recognition

  • 12 winning entries (4 from each region)

  • £25 Amazon voucher per winner

  • Artwork featured in the Life & Time 2026 Calendar

  • All entries celebrated in a video montage shared on our social media

📥 How to Enter

  • Download the A4 entry form via our website or QR code on the flyer

  • Complete artwork on the template and clearly mark name, age, school, and scenario on the back

  • Submit by post to:

    Life & Time, 16 The Square, Rostrevor, Co Down BT34 3AZ

    or leave at school reception for collection

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Life & Time Launch ‘Wills’ Initiative with local Solicitors

September 16, 2021 Advance Care Planning, Life & Time, Wills Service
Launching the new Life & Time, Wills initiative for the month of October are: l-r John McGinn, Director Life & Time, Rachel Rice of Rosemary Connolly Solicitors, Sarah Murphy of ES Legal, Charlotte Neary of Donnelly Neary Solicitors and Brian Scullion, Scullion Green Solicitors.

Life & Time Care, the palliative charity which delivers end of life care to Warrenpoint, Burren & Rostrevor (WBR) region and most recently introduced new services to Rathfriland, Hilltown & Mayobridge (RHM) area, have launched a new WILLS promotion service.

The established end of life charity, Life & Time, which provides palliative support to families in WBR and RHM, has this month launched a new service offering creation of a WILL through local solicitors with payment being waived in lieu of a donation to the charity. 

October marks International Palliative Care Day (9th) and this initiative will run throughout the month of October.

Life & Time Director, Solicitor Brian Scullion has developed the initiative. He explains: “Writing a Will or updating an old Will is not difficult with the right advice and support and having your affairs in order can make a huge difference to you and your family. 

“As a local solicitor, and a voluntary Director with Life & Time, I am delighted that this Will Campaign will offer this important service to local people while also supporting the important work of Life & Time. 

“Life & Time is a community based charity, offering end of life care to patients and support for their families. First operating in Warrenpoint, Burren and Rostrevor, earlier this month Life & Time launched a new team of nursing staff in the Rathfriland, Hilltown & Mayobridge area – expanding the services that the charity provides. 

“To date, the charity has supported 45 local families since it was first launched in 2018. We have an amazing team of 40 local nurses working to support end of life care in their own communities and this initiative will help them continue to provide that important service,” Brian adds.

To deliver the October Wills Campaign, Life and Time have teamed up with (with others to be added):

DND Law 

Rosemary Connolly Solicitors

Eamon Sloan Solicitors and 

Scullion and Green Solicitors  

Each practice has agreed to waive their usual fee in return for a donation to the charity. 

Brian explains: “The amount is at your discretion. The suggested minimum is £75 for a single Will and £120 for two reciprocal Wills where – most usually – a husband and wife will make similar wills providing for each other and their family or families. The firm will draw up the basic Will in return for your donation to the charity. If there are other local practices out there who would like to get involved in the initiative please do get in touch with us.” For more information on the Wills Initiative, or to make an appointment with one of the listed solicitors please visit

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