The Spirit of Normandy Trust is a national charity (Charity number 1038121)
The Spirit of Normandy Trust works with veterans of D Day and the Normandy Landings. We have two key charitable purposes, to provide welfare support to veterans of the Normandy Campaign (all now in the 90s and some over 100) and to perpetuate the memory of the Normandy Campaign. We already run an annual competition encouraging schools and pupils to submit essays and articles written by pupils. These are judged annually by the Young Historians Project and cash prizes awarded. Accordingly we have robust GDPR and Safeguarding policies in place.
Veterans had been looking forward to the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day this year but, due to the current situation with Covid 19, these have all been cancelled. Over the coming days and weeks we will be putting “memories of VE Day” written by veterans on our web site and FaceBook pages and are now launching a competition for children to design a poster.
VE Day Poster Competition
The 8th May will see the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe and the end of World War 2. This was a very significant day in history, and we would love to get younger generations involved in commemorating this occasion. The present circumstances mean that the events that were planned for 8th May cannot now take place, but we are keen that this significant anniversary should still be remembered. The Spirit of Normandy Trust is running a creative competition for primary and secondary aged children across the country.
We would like children to design a poster which illustrates and captures everything that VE day is about. We have three categories for entries and the winner of each category will receive £100. Our very own Normandy Veterans will be judging the winners of this competition. We will be adding submissions from the veterans about their experience of VE day over the coming weeks which may help inspire the design of your poster. Please feel free to use the template attached for your poster or just do it on some plain paper.
You can enter individually, telling us your name, your age and some contact details so we can get a hold of you if you win. Schools can also send entries in bulk if you would rather do that.
Categories- Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3&4 (combined) and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
Closing Date - 1st May
Ideally entries should be photographed or scanned and emailed to info@spiritofnormandy.org.uk . If this would be a problem, please email us and we can provide a postal address
Please note that entries submitted will become the property of the Spirit of Normandy Trust and may be used in future publicity.