CHILDREN and young people are being invited to design a postcard which captures their ideal park or open space as Forest Heath District Council launches its Park on a Postcard competition.
The council is inviting artistic school children and young people with a passion for photography, graphic design, drawing or painting to conjure up their own postcard featuring the best thing a park or open space can offer them.

Entries will be on display at Lark in the Park in Mildenhall on 12 July and the winning designs will be incorporated as a feature on the council’s website.

Member Champion for Younger People, Councillor Simon Flack said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for those living in the district to capture the best of Forest Heath’s parks and open spaces and have their say in developing open spaces for the future which everybody can enjoy.

"We want as many young people as possible to get involved and send us their designs. Be imaginative, be creative and get thinking. This is your chance for your favourite spot or design to get noticed with the winning designs featuring on real postcards which will help promote future events in and around our open spaces to local residents !”

Park on a Postcard is open to three age groups: under nine years old, under 13, and 13 years and over.

All entrants are being asked to produce their own designs through pictures or words to illustrate what they consider would make the ideal park or open space.

Entries should be designed onto a A5 sheet of paper (A4 folded in half). The winning young person will receive a bumper pack of arts materials for themselves and their school.

All entries should be marked clearly with name, age, school (if applicable), address and telephone number and sent to Park on a Postcard Competition, Forest Heath District Council, College Heath Road, Mildenhall IP28 7EY.

Entries must be your own work and only one entry per person is permitted. Entries close on 29 February 2008, with the winners to be announced shortly thereafter. For more information telephone 01638 719295 or visit the young people's pages www.forest-heath.gov.uk. A set of competition rules can be obtained from the website.