Hundreds of school children from across Leicester West took part in a competition to design Liz Kendall’s official Christmas card for 2018 and last Friday, Liz visited Glebelands Primary School to announce the winner of the competition.

Jagoda Mikolajczak aged 8 from Glebelands Primary School created the winning design of a snowy winter’s night Christmas scene and will receive tickets to see Peter Pan at De Montfort Hall along with a Waterstones Book Token and the winning design enlarged to keep as a souvenir.

Liz also picked a runner up, Ellie from Folville Junior School, who will receive two tickets to see White Christmas at the Curve.

Liz Kendall said: “It was so hard to pick a winner from the hundreds of entries that were received, but Jagoda’s design depicted such a lovely winter’s evening.

“I’d like to say a huge thank you to all the children who took part in the competition, to all the infant, junior and primary schools in Leicester West and to all the sponsors for supporting my competition this year.”

Jagoda’s card has been printed on the front cover of all the cards that Liz is sending to people across Leicester West and Westminster.

I was thrilled to have been invited to join local residents at the Tudor Centre in Leicester for their community Christmas lunch.

Everyone had a great time and I really enjoyed being able to serve local residents their meals. Thank you to everyone who helped make this event happen.

On Friday, 15th December, I was delighted to announce the winner of my Christmas card competition. 

It was really difficult choosing a winner from all the fabulous entries I received, but one design stood out with her ‘Welcome to Leicester’ Christmas scene. I was really proud to present Asha Omar from Wolsey House Primary School with tickets to see Scrooge at the Curve and a book token for designing the winning entry.

Congratulations too to the runners up: Avah from year 3 at Forest Lodge Community Primary; Joanna from class 5L at Braunstone Frith Primary School and Chesley from year 4 at Beaumont Lodge Primary School. 

Thank you to all the children that took part, to all the infant, junior and primary schools in leicester West and a big thank you to this year’s sponsors!