ART COMPETITION

2024 The Mirfield Rotary Children’s Environment

Art Competition

Due to the success of the 2022 and 2023 art competition The Rotary club of Mirfield is organising a different type of Children’s art competition this year in collaboration with a community interest company that some of our members  work closely with- ‘Give a few words’. Home - Give... (thegive.co.uk).

Give A Few Words aims to help share uplifting words on cards or letters that help reduce the feeling of isolation of people who may have no family to visit or who feel isolated in care homes or at home. Hand drawn colourful pictures on cards /letters bring a lot of happiness to those who receive them.  The card could be just a folded piece of paper.

Our theme once again is ‘The Environment’-pictures of local nature is welcome. The art will once again be judged by local artists according to the age group.

The written messages could be just one uplifting word or sentence or a short letter or poem and these will be judged by Sharron Wilkinson the founder of  ‘Give a few words’ who will arrange to distribute all the entries to isolated people who have been identified in the local area.

*Please note they will therefore not be returned to the school as on previous occasions.

Some examples of what to put are:-Love and cheer; Sending you a smile; Have a good day; Hello from…or anything else that brings a message of kindness and cheer. It is not necessary for the children to sign off with their name but it is nice to put their FIRST name only.

The back of the card/letter needs to note the child’s first name and age and the INITIALS only of which school it is submitted from, as may be required by school policy. (Please see terms of entry).

 Poster Download:   ArtCompPoster2024.pdf

We are inviting submissions from any children who go to school in the Mirfield area. Full details/Privacy statement will be on the Mirfield Rotary Website.

·         The theme is ENVIRONMENT- It is open to any environmental topic but could include sustainability, Britain in bloom work, saving the planet, climate change etc.

·         Type of art- the competition is open to drawings or paintings. All entries should include the art on a hard copy of a card or letter as described above.

·         Age groups/categories –There are 4 age groups -5-7 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 12-14 yrs, 15-18 yrs. In addition there is a SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) category.

Dates

·         Information packs will be delivered to schools WEEK COMMENCING MARCH 11^TH 2024.

·         Deadline for submissions April 22^nd 2024. ENTRIES WILL BE COLLECTED April 24^th and 25^th.

·         Judging will take place END OF APRIL AND DURING MAY 2024.

Judging-

·         ART-The judging panel will include two artists – one from Mirfield art hub and one from West Yorkshire Print workshop (WYPW)  who will short list the top 25 ART submissions

·         Give a few words -will also choose 5 winners, one from each age group, based on their written message.

·         Gallery display- The 25 shortlisted art entries and 5  chosen by Give a few words will be displayed in MIRFIELD LIBRARY  in a pop up gallery for the short listed children and parents to view on Saturday morning June 8th supported by Mirfield Rotary club members.

·         Certificates-There will be a certificate for each of the 30 chosen.

·         Pop up print session-WYPW will offeron Saturday morning  June 8th, a pop up activity print session in the Library for all the 25 art runners up with a donation of £2 for those who want to be involved.

·         Winners – the winners in each of the 5 groups for ART AND MESSAGES  will be invited to a Mirfield Rotary club meeting at Dewsbury District golf club, Sands Lane, Mirfield early evening on Monday June 24^th for a presentation of prizes .

The 5 Art winners will receive book vouchers donated by Rotary and presented by the Mirfield President.

The 5,  ‘Give a few words’ winners will receive a small prize for the best written messages presented by Sharron Wilkinson.

• Mirfield Rotary club- will choose an overall winner who will be presented with a special art trophy. 

·         Extra opportunity-WYPW has offered the 5 prize winners a special prize of a free winners workshop for all the 5 art winners together to be held on a date determined by WYPW. No other date will be offered.

Gill Hawksworth
Project Lead for the Rotary Club of Mirfield

Terms of Entry

·         If submitted via a local school, the art work should have on the back of the entry the child’s FIRST name, Age and INITIALS only of school (as may be required by school policy) from where they will be collected.

·         The school should note the full names of the children so winners can be notified.

·         No child’s full name will be published without the school receiving consent from their parent or legal guardian.

·         By entering the art competition, you are giving consent for Mirfield Rotary club to process your information for the purpose of administrating the competition.

·         We will hold names, age categories and contact details in order to administer the competition and for the purpose of distributing prizes only.

·         We will delete your information within 28 days of the judging panel of the competition (unless asked to do so sooner)..

·         We will not share your information with any third party except in very specific circumstances (see detailed privacy statement on MIRFIELD ROTARY CLUB WEBSITE) without your consent to do so.

For further details please contact:     paulcusworthrotary@gmail.com

The Mirfield Rotary Children’s Environment Art Competition 2023

The Rotary club of Mirfield is organising a Children’s Art Competition as part of the celebrations for the coronation of King Charles III

COMPETITION WINNERS 2022

Gift cards for sale

ENTRY

The Mirfield Rotary Children’s Environment Art Competition 2023

Due to the success of the 2022 competition, the Rotary club of Mirfield is organising another Children’s Art Competition as part of the King’s coronation celebrations. We are inviting submissions from any children who go to school in the Mirfield area. 

·         The theme is ENVIRONMENT- It is open to any environmental topic but could include sustainability, Britain in bloom work, saving the planet, climate change etc.

·         Type of art- the competition is open to drawings, paintings /posters. All entries should be A4 size and hard copy.

·         Age groups/categories –There are 4 age groups - 5-7 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 12-14 yrs, 15-18 yrs. In addition there is a SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) category.

·          Dates-Deadline for submissions May 10^th 2023. ENTRIES WILL BE COLLECTED May 11^th /12^th MAY.

·         Judging- The judging panel will include two artists – one from Mirfield Art Hub and one from West Yorkshire Print workshop (WYPW)  who will short list the top 25.

·         Gallery display- The 25 shortlisted entries will be displayed in MIRFIELD LIBRARY  in a pop up gallery for the short listed children and parents to view on Saturday morning June 10th supported by Mirfield Rotary club members.

·         Pop up print session-WYPW will offer on Saturday morning  June 10th, a pop up activity print session in the Library for all the 25 runners up with a donation of £2 for those who want to be involved.

·         Certificates-There will be a certificate for each of the 25.

·         Winners - The winner in each category will be invited, with a parent or guardian, to attend the Rotary meeting on the evening of Monday 26th June 2023 for the presentation of prizes.

·         Extra opportunity-WYPW has offered the 5 prize winners a special prize of a free ‘community session’ for all the 5 winners together.

Gill Hawksworth
Project Lead for the Rotary Club of Mirfield

For further details please contact: rotarymirfield@gmail.com 

Poster:    Art Competition Poster 2023

Terms of Entry

Terms of Entry

·         If submitted via a school the art work (A4) sheet should have on the back of the drawing Name, Age and name of school from where they will be collected.

·         No child’s full name will be published without consent from their parent or legal guardian.

·         By entering the art competition, you are giving consent for Mirfield Rotary club to process your information for the purpose of administrating the competition.

·         We will hold names, age categories and contact details in order to administer the competition and for the purpose of distributing prizes only.

·         We will delete your information within 28 days of the judging panel of the competition (unless asked to do so sooner).

·         We will not share your information with any third party except in very specific circumstances (see detailed privacy statement below) without your consent to do so.

Art competition Privacy statement

Mirfield Rotary club (“we”) value the trust you put in us to process your personal information we collect and how we will use it. We will never do anything with your personal information that you wouldn’t reasonably expect us to and we will always take every effort to protect your privacy.

How we will use your personal data:
We are collecting your personal information (and that of your child if a minor) for the organisation and administration of the competition only,

 It will NOT be used for any other purpose.

Mirfield Rotary club may use your personal information to contact you to discuss public relation opportunities and will gain your specific consent at that time for the use of your information such as photographs/ interviews for newspaper articles, websites etc. (where the entry is a minor only the parent/ guardian will be contacted).

Should an entry be selected as a ‘winning entry’, it may be necessary to share some of your information with third parties such as providers of venue hire and catering services. Under such circumstances only the minimum amount of information for the third party service will be provided ie for caterers, only the name and allergy/special dietary requirements will be disclosed, no other information.

Retaining and deleting your personal information.
All reasonable steps will be taken by those concerned to ensure the personal information they have access to be kept securely and will not be shared with anyone who does not have a legitimate reason to have access to it in relation to the organisation and administration of the competition.

Personal information will be kept on file for 28 days after the date of the competition judging panel. After this date, the information will be securely destroyed (either by shredding, incineration)at club level.

By signing and submitting a duly completed entry form, you are acknowledging that you have read and agree to the Privacy notices in respect of the use of personal information or yourself (and your child, where applicable).

Mirfield Rotary is the responsible body (data controller) for information provided to us.

Our contact details are :  rotarymirfield@gmail.com