Over many years Bexhill Lions Club has organised the Lions’ International Peace Poster Competition in local Junior and Senior Schools.
Competition Organiser Stells Harris explained ” Since 1988 Lions Clubs around the world have been sponsoring this very special art competition. Creating peace posters gives children the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings about peace in an imaginative and creative way. The competition has been running for over 30 years with a different theme each year and now around 600,000 children from nearly 100 countries participate. Last year the theme was “Peace Without Limits “.
The Club was invited to an assembly at St Richard’s Catholic College to announce their results. Local Lions were joined by the S.E England District Governor Steve Carley and Competitions Officer Baldev Bahra.
The School winner was Amelia Carter who received a voucher, medal and certificate. Coming a close second was Amishrily Ramprasad. Runners up were Danny Doherty, Olivia Zietal, Sophie de Caires, and Xavier Leather.
The Peace Poster is called a progressive competition because the local school winners are entered into the Lions’ South East England District competition.
DG Steve then announced that Amelia had also won the S.E District competition. In presenting her with a certificate and voucher he said he was delighted to learn of the high number of entries for the school competition and that Amelia was a well deserved winner in both competitions. Her poster will be entered into the National competition.
We have now heard that Amelia was awarded 3rd place in the National competition. A really tremendous achievement, well done Amelia.
Bexhill Lions were also invited to attend a Year 9 assembly at Bexhill Academy to announce their results. The winner was Alfie Pelling who created a beautiful poster of forest animals He said that spending time with animals gave him a real sense of peace. He received a voucher, medal and certificate from the Club. Runners up were Maya Wardle and Aida Ballinger.
We were also delighted to announce that Alfie was awarded 3rd prize in the District competition and he received a certificate and a voucher.
Lion President June Hough said “The standard of entries has been really high and continues the growing reputation of Bexhill for outstanding creative talent at both Senior and Junior schools level. This prestigious art competition also encourages the children to talk about the theme and the issues around it. I would also like to thank the schools for their tremendous support of the competition and all the pupils who spend so much time designing the amazing posters.”
Stella added “The quality of work never fails to impress and I am pleased to announce that the two winning posters are displayed on the north end of the Footbridge Gallery so that they can be enjoyed by everybody. We are very grateful to Diana Birch for arranging this.”
