Books inspire youngsters to prize creations
Six youngsters have won awards in the World Book Day competition run by counselling charity We Hear You.
The children were challenged to get creative, using their favourite book as inspiration, in any way they wanted, and entries included costumes, models and drawings.
Winners Liam, Lily, Layla, Edie, Iyla and Thea all received a book as a prize.
The charity’s communications officer, Lucy Mcmahon, said: “We absolutely loved judging this competition.
“We hope we managed to make the last week of school closures a bit more fun for young people, it certainly brightened ours.
“Well done to everyone who entered and especially to our six worthy winners, we hope you enjoy your prizes.”
Lucy added: “We’re really pleased to announce that our faceto-face counselling service for children under 12 is now able to reopen in Frome and hopefully at some of our other locations in the not-too-distant future.
“Younger children are the group most affected by the need to move the service online and we’re so pleased to be in a position to support them in a safe, socially distant way while we wait for the end of restrictions.”
■ To refer a child, young person or adult affected by cancer or any lifethreatening condition for We Hear You’s free, professional counselling service, call 01373 455255 or email info@wehearyou.org.uk.
We Hear You works across Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset and Wiltshire and in 2016 offered over 100 counselling sessions per week across 20 locations, at a cost of £4,400 a week.
The charity receives no government funding and relies on donations and support from the communities it works in.