2023 is our 25th Anniversary Year at Pershore Plum Festival and what better way to celebrate than with the return of our Children’s Art Competition!
This year’s competition will be open to Primary school age children from Reception to Year 6. The theme this year will be: 25 Years of Pershore Plum Festival. 
We are inviting entrants to creatively express and represent our festival’s history, as well as that of the local Market Gardening Heritage of the Vale of Evesham, through their artworks. You will find information on the festival itself in the form of photographs, videos, testimonials and historical background in the ‘About’ section of our website. In the coming weeks, this page will be updated with more information for your inspiration!
The competition, once again, provides an opportunity to evidence cross-curricular links between Art and Local History. The Plum Festival seeks to memorialise and celebrate the vast, agricultural, horticultural and Market Gardening Heritage of Pershore and the wider Vale of Evesham. Please follow this link: https://www.explorethepast.co.uk/school-resource-mgh/  to the Explore The Past website which will take you to the Market Gardening Schools Resource Pack collated by Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Department. This pack offers inspiration and context on the wider subject of the Market Gardening industry and the lives of those who lived and worked on the land which shaped Pershore and the Vale of Evesham as we know it today.  
Bundle prizes of art supplies will be awarded to the respective schools of first-place individual winners. Winners will also receive a personal prize. Winners in the whole-class category will receive a bundle prize for the whole class. The deadline for entries will be Friday 7 July 2023, with winning and commended entries exhibited as part of our 25th Anniversary Celebrations across the August Bank Holiday Weekend.
We believe that the Art Competition will, again, provide fantastic opportunities for schools to create or further their links with this local cultural event and foster children’s engagement with their local community and heritage. 
We wish you all the best of luck and we cannot wait to see your entries!

Youth Competition

Entrants must present a completed entry form alongside their artwork in order be successfully entered into the competition.

​For more information please see the Terms and Conditions.
A massive thank you to our sponsor 
If you have any questions about these art competitions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or 01386 565564 and we will be happy to help.