Rules:
1. The competition has two categories – General Category and Additional Needs Category – with the following age groups in each category
- 7 years & under
- 8 – 10 years inclusive
- 11 – 13 years inclusive
- 14 – 17 years inclusive
- Adult - 18 years and over
Ages as at 31st December 2025. Proof of month and year of birth may be requested by the credit union.
There is a separate section for group entries in the Additional Needs Category only.
2. Entries to the Additional Needs Category are invited from children and adults with physical and intellectual disabilities. Group entrants must clearly tick the box under Additional Needs Category for them to submit a group entry. Entrants in this category are not required to use the theme.
3. The text of the theme does not have to be illustrated on your artwork. We are looking for your interpretation of the theme through your art.
4. All group entries (Additional Needs only) will be judged together – no age categories apply.
5 Name, address, month and year of birth and other details (where applicable) must be clearly printed on the entry form and then attached to the back of the entry. Any entries bearing incomplete entry forms may not be considered.
6. All entry forms and artworks must be certified by one of the following: teacher/facilitator/parent/guardian (under 18 , General and Additional Needs Category), or by the entrant (over 18) as being the unaided and original work of the entrant.
7. All entries must be submitted in either A3 (420 x 297mm) or A2 (594 x 420mm) and landscape orientation. Portrait oriented entries will be disqualified from adjudication.
8. The entry can be drawn or painted in pencil, charcoal, pen or ink, felt-tip markers, crayon, pastel, water colours, gouache, acrylics, oils, poster colour or collage. Prints done from a lino block, wood block or any other method may also be submitted. No computer aided design (CAD) may be entered. No pieces of art under glass, as we cannot be responsible for same.
9. The competition is organised into three stages with the winners of each category being forwarded to the next stage, these being:
- Stage 1: Credit Union level
- Stage 2: Regional/Chapter Level
- Stage 3: National Level
Entries must be submitted to your local participating credit union only – no entries will be accepted directly at regional or national level.
10. It should be noted that once artwork is received by us they become our property and may be reproduced at our discretion and may only returned at our discretion. All entries are accepted as original works and we are not responsible for any breach of copyright. We will not accept liability for loss or damage to any work submitted.
11. Entrants may enter the competition only once in any given year
12. We reserved the right not to award prizes in any category. The decision of the adjudicators is final and no correspondence will be entered into.