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BFBS Launches ‘Forces Voices’ Creativity Competition

BFBS launches ‘Forces Voices’ creativity competition to get families to share their ‘stay home’ creative masterpieces and be in with the chance of winning £500 worth of Amazon vouchers.

During this difficult time, we know that many of you are getting creative at home to keep your spirits up or children entertained - but you may feel that all your hard efforts are going to waste as these masterpieces are stored in a box or on your hard drive.

At BFBS we want to encourage people to share their lockdown creations through ‘Forces Voices’, a creativity competition that allows adults and children to either get creative from scratch or present pieces they’ve already made and want to share with the world.

The Competition

You can enter as an adult or encourage your child to put forward their own masterpiece, as there will be a £500 Amazon voucher for the best child and adult submission in each category.

Each piece will be judged by an expert in one of the following eight categories:

Written word / Audio (Adult)
Written word / Audio (Child)
Video (Adult)
Video (Child)
Arts and Crafts (Adult)
Arts and Crafts (Child)
Photography (Adult)

Photography (Child)

Submit Your Entry

Finding Fame

If the prospect of winning £500 to spend on Amazon isn’t enough, we want to celebrate your isolation inspirations even further by showcasing all the entries on forcesnews.com for you to look at and enjoy.

Meet The Judges

Arts and Crafts

Founder of Interior Design Studio Rascal & Roses, Verity Coleman, will be judging the arts and crafts category.

Verity Coleman

Verity served in the UK military as an officer before following her creative passion and launching Rascal & Roses in 2013. She also recently appeared on BBC'sInterior Design Masters.

Video

Film and Television producer Guy Tannahill will be judging the video category

Guy Tannahill

Guy Tannahill’s film and television career spans more than 30 years and has included Hollywood blockbusters, critically acclaimed independent features and award-winning high-end television drama.

As a line producer, highlights have included Girl With a Pearl Earring starring Colin Firth and Scarlet Johansson, David Cronenberg’s Spider, Beyond the Sea and Hannibal Rising.

He line-produced eight episodes of the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones and Tannahill is currently producing the Golden Globe-nominated US TV drama series Outlander.

Photography

Cpl Rebecca Brown—who will be judging the photography category—is the first female soldier to win the British Army Photographer of the Year award in this year’s Army Film and Photographic Competition.

Rebecca also came runner-up for Best Online Image and for her Professional Sport and Adventure Training pictures.

Cpl Rebecca Brown

Written Word / Audio

Amanda Prowse is a forces wife and International Bestselling author who has had twenty-four novels and six novellas published in dozens of languages around the world and will be the judge of this category.

Amanda Prowse

Her books, including the chart-topping No.1 titles What Have I Done?, Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife, The Girl in the Corner and The Things I Know, have sold eight million copies across the globe.