Last month, we published a friendly competition asking families of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) in Manchester to submit artworks that we can use as cover designs for our 2020 Christmas cards.

We received 12 submissions from families across Manchester, of which 3 were chosen to be featured in our virtual Christmas cards project, which allowed people to send greeting cards by email to their family and friends.

Below are the beautiful designs that families sent to us:

  • A waving snowman with a snowy background and candy canes in front, plus the words "Merry Christmas" and "Happy new year"
  • Santa and his reindeers flying over a village, painted on a mirror
  • A snowman painted on a mirror
  • Kids playing in the snow, with a huge mountain cave in the background and a giant candy cane
  • Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is wearing a hat and saying "Merry Christmas"
  • A finger-painted Christmas tree plus the words "Happy Lockmas 2020"
  • A Christmas tree with the words "Happy Christmas"
  • A snowman standing in front of Santa's workshop
  • hand prints and falling snow, painted on a mirror
  • Stars painted on a mirror
  • A tree under falling snow, painted on a mirror
  • A tree under the stars, painted on a mirror

We would like to thank Evie, Jake, Luca, Maryam, Michael, Oscar, Tijan, Willow, and Winter for sharing their wonderful artworks with us. You can see their original submissions and people’s comments in our Facebook community page.

If you want to send belated cards to anyone, you can still do so via the button below:

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Acknowledgements:

A huge thanks to the Yuhico family for sending in a donation, which we used to purchase the prizes for our competition winners.

Thanks as well to the Barkadahan02 group of friends (Bren, Jerome, Jigs, Joseph, Nolet), who also sent a donation, which we used to develop the cards and the card-sending application.