Here’s something to get you in the festive mood – a selection of amazing artwork submitted by Curo customers for this year’s Christmas card competition. We picked a winner and runner up in each of the four age categories and invited them all to our offices at the Maltings to pick up their prizes and enjoy some festive nibbles.
Our overall winner
This year’s winning Xmas card artwork was created by Oskar, who is 14 years old. Oskar’s artwork transported us to an atmospheric winter landscape. We loved the inventiveness of the design and the wonderful technical execution.
In his Christmas message to our customers, alongside Oskar’s winning artwork, Curo’s Chief Executive, Victor da Cunha, wrote,
‘It’s the perfect choice for our official card this year and shows what we’re all about as an organisation - providing a warm and safe home on a cold winter night.'
Oskar’s mum told us they’ve had a difficult time recently and are currently living in temporary accommodation, separated from their pets and most of their belongings. She said, “The theme of the picture is, everyone needs a home at Christmas, and we hope we will have ours soon.”
0 to 4 age category
This colourful winning entry was submitted by Poppy. Her mum told us that Poppy really loves drawing and will have no trouble helping her to spend her £50 gift card.
Bennie’s hoping we’ll have a white Christmas this year with snowballs falling from the sky, just like in his super runner up entry.
5 to 9 age category
Congratulations to Bennie’s sister, Charlotte, for this lovely picture of Santa out doing some important deliveries with Rudolph, which we picked as our winner in the 5 to 9 age category.
Liliana gave us this cheeky elf, hard at work making presents – a very worthy runner up in this category.
10 to 16 age category
This fantastically detailed picture showing Santa flying around the world delivered lots of humour and individuality. It secured the runner-up prize for Mia in this category for older children. Our overall winner, Oskar, took was our 10-16 winner.
17+ age category
We loved Abs’s rendering of a car returning home with a huge Christmas tree attached to the roof. Abs revealed she drew it last year but didn’t get round to submitting it. We’re really glad that you did this year.
It didn’t take us long to reflect on this clever calligraphic tree sent in by Yazmin and pick it as our runner up in the 17+ category.
Well done to all our winners and runners up. It was a really high standard this year, as you can see from the other entries we received, below. They all deserved recognition and shortlisting was a real challenge. All the entries are available to view in our reception area at the Maltings. Thank you to everyone that took part, we hope you all have a very merry Christmas.
