HEART FELT TIPS: CHRISTMAS 2016
This Christmas, we’ve teamed up with an amazing organisation: Heart Felt Tips. Thanks to our campaign, we had a little help with the mark-making* Christmas card this year. Read all about it.
It all started with a pencil case…
Jeremy Houghton loved his pencil case when he was small. Given that he’s now an artist with some incredible residencies under his belt, it was clearly an important part of his childhood. He realised that there are disadvantaged kids out there who don’t have a pencil case, full of felt tips and possibilities. And he thought of a brilliant way to change that.
Introducing Heart Felt Tips
Heart Felt Tips finds sponsors to buy pencil cases, which get filled by schoolkids who have pens to spare, and distributed through food banks to kids who don’t. Genius. Jeremy has been running the organisation pretty much single-handedly since he set up in 2015, and when we heard about it, we couldn’t wait to help.
making marks for Heart Felt Tips
Not just for Christmas
In the New Year, we’re hoping to become a sponsor ourselves, partnering up with a local school to bring full pencil cases to less fortunate kids in our local area. To keep the buzz going, we’ve put the kids’ drawings front-and-centre on our Christmas card, AND we’ve got even more arty prizes up for grabs:
Enter our prize draw. Hand-draw your own red and black Christmassy picture and post it on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, tagging mark-making* and using #heartfelttips. You could win one of two limited edition Jeremy Houghton prints! (AND a massive art set, if you’re a kid).
Find out more
Check out the campaign page: mark-making.com/heartfelttips
Nearly a hundred kids flocked to draw on our giant piece of paper in Chipping Norton Town Hall. Chocolate snowmen were consumed, Christmas drawings of every sort abounded, and our red and black felt-tip pens were tested to their limits.
Everyone who drew went into a prize draw, and last week we announced winners! Congratulations Ben (age 6) who won first prize, and our runners up Dana (age 6), Elliott (age 2), Lilah (age 7), and Jonah (age 10). We hope you have a great time experimenting with your new art materials.
Take it further
Enter our prize draw. Hand-draw your own red and black Christmassy picture and post it on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, tagging mark-making* and using #heartfelttips. You could win one of two limited edition Jeremy Houghton prints! (AND a massive art set, if you’re a kid).
Get involved. If you or your business are interested in getting involved with Heart Felt Tips as a sponsor, or to help raise awareness, contact Jeremy Houghton at admin@heartfelttips.co.uk
Find out more
Check out the campaign page: mark-making.com/heartfelttips
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