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A competition that encouraged children to
design a new poster advertising Wigan Borough’s library services has
been such an overwhelming success that Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust
has doubled the amount of prizes on offer.
Wigan Schools’ Library Service, part of Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust,
asked young people across the borough to design a poster that would
attract new visitors to libraries. Over 700 entries were received and
the winning posters will now go on display within libraries, schools and
other Trust sites.
The competition was open to children in all primary and secondary
schools across the borough. Children at primary school level were asked
to design a general poster to promote the borough’s public library
services.
The primary category winners were Kristen Naylor and Chloë Wilding.
Kristen’s amazingly bright blue rocket flying over an orange planet
really caught the judges’ eyes, whilst all of the judges loved Chloë’s
book-reading spider.
Secondary school pupils had to design a poster that would promote some
of the lesser known services, such as the Home Delivery Service and free
internet access. The secondary school category winners were Charlie
Davies and Emily Johnson. Charlie’s ‘Where Can I…?’ poster really
impressed with its smart artwork, and Emily’s ‘Fairytale Library’
successfully conveyed the idea that Wigan Borough’s libraries are now
more up to date than ever before.
In addition to the main prizes, two designs to promote the Home Delivery
Service really stood out; the vibrancy and energy of Emma Hulme’s
design, and the clarity of Toby Mear’s poster with its message, 'we'll
come to you'.
Rob Sanderson, Schools Library Service Officer for Wigan Leisure and
Culture Trust said: “The idea of the competition was to engage with
young people and give them an opportunity to play a creative part in the
promotion of the library service. Often children can look beyond the
obvious and they really did come up with some fantastic ideas.”
Originally, the prize for each category was a £100 gift card, kindly
donated by competition sponsors Borders, and an all-expenses paid author
visit for the winner’s school. However, due to the excellent response in
both quality and quantity, the number of prizes were increased.
Rob continued: “The standard of the entries we received was so high that
it was starting to prove impossible to pick the winners. We decided to
pick four winning designs to be made into posters along with an
additional two prizes of £50 gift cards to allow two further designs to
be made into postcards to promote the Home Delivery service. We’d like
to say a big thank you to all the children and young people who took
part in this competition as well as to Borders for their help by
supplying prizes.”
Gift cards will also be awarded to children who used the most inspiring
wording on their designs and their quotes will appear on a range of free
bookmarks available throughout the borough’s sixteen libraries.
For more information on Wigan Schools’ Library Service, contact 01942
486977 or visit
www.wlct.org/sls
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NOTES TO EDITORS: For further information on this press release please
contact Chris Dunbar, Media and Public Relations Manager, on 01942
486937 or at
c.dunbar@wlct.org
Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust: Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust is a
charitable trust working on behalf of Wigan Council to manage and
support leisure and cultural facilities, initiatives and events for over
300,000 residents in the Wigan Borough. See
www.wlct.org
Getting Wigan Active: Getting Wigan Active
is Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust’s vision to help people across the
Wigan Borough to become more physically, mentally and creatively active.
It also aims to increase community activity and to encourage good
citizenship.
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