Our 2025 Jack Petchey Cartoon Competition is now open for entries!🖌️

🎨 Every year the Jack Petchey Cartoon Competition asks young people from London and Essex to submit a motivational cartoon centred around a specific theme. The theme for 2024/2025 is “together we are stronger”.

What does ‘together we are stronger’ mean to you? What does it look like? What does it feel like? How does it impact your life? We want to see a positive interpretation of what this theme looks like to you. If you can put this into a cartoon and you wish to share it with thousands of other young people across London and Essex, enter our competition.

The deadline for entries is 5.00 p.m. Saturday 1st March 2025.

To be eligible, entrants must be from a school or sixth form participating in the School Planners programme. Three winning entries will be selected by our Achiever Network, and will be displayed within our School Planners that go out to hundreds of schools across London and Essex next year. The overall winner will receive £100 worth of vouchers, while the second place finisher will win £50 worth of vouchers, and the third place finisher will win £25 worth of vouchers.

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Want inspiration? A recent theme was “a Green World” and these were the winning entries.

🥇 In first place was Akayla from Nonsuch Highschool for Girls.

“I hope that my design will promote the environment to other students as I hope that it will help students recognise the beauty of nature, and the need to preserve nature in all its forms. I think, sometimes, today’s youth don’t always recognise the fact that climate change and global warming is an issue that will affect our daily lives in the future, however I think that my drawing portrays what the world could be, compared to what it looks like now. I believe that this will encourage students to work towards having a better environment, like recycling and using less plastic, as they can see the benefits of preserving the environment.”

🥈 In second place, Amira from Westcliff High School for Girls.

“I want people to understand what pollution is, and allow them to delve deeper into a world where environmental hazards- like plastic- don’t exist. It should promote this idea to others, and grant them the ability to find out more about pollution and climate change.”

🥉In third place, Elizabeth from St Ursula’s Convent School.

“What inspired me is the possibility. The possibility of change and a brighter future using these ideas I incorporated bright themed colours to give a vivid palette and depiction of my perspective of the greater world and what it could be.”