Christmas 2025

Surrey’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Lisa Townsend, and Deputy Commissioner Ellie Vesey-Thompson have launched their 2025 Christmas card competition.

Children working with any of Surrey’s youth services are invited to put pen, pencil or paintbrush to A4 paper and submit their creative ho-ho-holiday designs by Friday, 31st October 2025.

This year’s theme is ‘Christmas in Surrey’. The winner will receive a £100 Amazon voucher, and their design will be sent to MPs, leaders in public service and charitable sectors, local councillors – and even the Prime Minister. 

Any child or young person involved with a Surrey youth service can enter the competition. That includes those who: 

• Attend any youth club or project in the county 

• Require additional SEND support 

• Are members of any YMCA programme 

• Have received help from Mindworks Surrey 

• Are involved in any youth-based organisation, such as the Surrey Youth Cabinet 

It also includes those involved with organisations that the Commissioner and her team help to fund. 

These include mental health charity Eikon, Catch22, an organisation supporting young people at risk of criminal exploitation, and the Surrey Youth Commission, which allows its members to have their say on crime and policing issues. 

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How to enter

Paper pictures sent by post are preferred. Pictures can also be accepted via email, although if you’re picked as the winner, we’ll need the original copy, so please keep it safe!

Postal entries should be addressed to: The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey, 3, The Drive, Sandy Lane, Guildford, Surrey, GU3 1HE. 

Email entries should be submitted to ChristmasPCC@surrey.police.uk 

You’ll need to include your name, age, the details of a parent or guardian’s name, and a contact number or email address so we can ask for permission to use your design. 

2024 winner

Last year, children aged 11 and under were invited to submit their festive designs on the theme ‘the spirit of Christmas’.

The winner was seven-year-old Felix, from Reigate, who received a family ticket to Bocketts Farm.

Two runners up were also given 12 cards with their individual designs on. 

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Festive delight

The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner has a fund of £275,000 specifically for initiatives and organisations that support children and young people in the 2024/25 financial year.

The Office also commissions the Surrey Youth Commission, which will run for a third year. 

The Youth Commission allows children and young people to have their say on the crime and policing issues affecting them. 

The 2024 competition marked the third time the Commissioner and her Deputy, Ellie Vesey-Thompson, have opened a competition to Surrey’s young people. 

Previously, children supported by services commissioned by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner were asked to submit their designs.  

The winning photograph in 2023 was taken by a young person near the Canal in Woking, as part of an ‘Answers through Photography’ workshop run by charity Catch22.

The workshop is part of Catch22’s ‘Music to My Ears’ service that is funded by our office to support children and young people who have been directly affected by criminal exploitation.

This winter scene was captured in response to the question, “What does the future mean to you?” The young person said, “Although things seem cold and hard to navigate at the moment they could see a pathway though.”

Ellie, who has responsibility for the office’s focus on children and young people, said: “Receiving these designs from young people in Surrey is a real highlight of the year for the Commissioner and I.

“We look forward to it for months in advance.”

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