Each year the Alnwick in Bloom Committee organises a children's painting competition to encourage youngsters to take an interest in the quest to get Alnwick blooming! We also hope it will inspire them to take a greater interest in our surroundings, the town, nature, the environment, and gardening as a hobby.

The winning paitings go forward to be judged in the regional competition for use in the Northumbria in Bloom calendar.

Paintings will be collected from Alnwick schools from June 10 onwards and judging will take place in mid-June. Mary Manley from Barter Books has kindly agreed to judge the competition, and the presentation evening is Friday, June 25, 6.30pm for 7pm.


2009 Winners

Winners of the Alnwick In Bloom 2009 Children's Painting
Competition with judge Joan Littler (back left) and competition
organiser Margaret Casey (back right).

2006 Winners

The Alnwick in Bloom schools painting competition winners
with Alnwick Mayor Mary Graham, judge Ian August,
The Alnwick Garden liaison director, and competition organiser
Dianne Watson.

Two of the winners, Sarah Jane Thompson, 10, and Samantha Courty, 13, both of the Duke’s Middle School, took first place in their groups in the subsequent Northumbria in Bloom competition, trophies for their school and a month in the 2007 calendar.
Lilly Horgan, of Lindisfarne Middle School, scooped third place and several certificates of merit were handed out to other Alnwick pupils.

2005 Winners