Christmas Card Competition

The competition has now closed, but keep an eye out for next years Christmas Card competition! Even if you've entered this year we'd still love for you to send another design next year and get involved!

The competition has now closed, but in the 2026 competition please post your cards to the following address in an A4 envelope:
Events and Community,
1 Champion Park,
London,
SE5 8FJ.

Here is the freepost address for you to post your design free of charge: Freepost RUGC-XZAY-GRKG Supporter Services Unit, 3rd Floor, The Salvation Army, 1 Champion Park LONDON SE5 8FJ.

There is no fee to enter the card competition. 

However, if you would like to give back, you can make a voluntary donation on our website here or choose to fundraise in addition to entering the card competition by following the steps above.

Please create your card on an A4 sheet of paper and send it to us in an A4 envelope so it doesn’t need to be folded. Feel free to get as creative as you like, but we encourage you to focus on this year’s theme ‘Love Came Down’ and show us what love at Christmas means to you. This could be acts of kindness, time with family, Nativity scenes, or anything else that inspires you – we can’t wait to see your creativity!

All winners will receive a voucher to The Entertainer, be featured in the December issue of Kids Alive! magazine, and have their card turned into an e-card available to purchase and send on the Don’t Send Me A Card platform.

The overall winner will receive a £100 voucher to The Entertainer plus have their design featured on the cover of Kids Alive! magazine. Two runner up winners will each receive a £50 Entertainer voucher and the four winners of the age categories will each receive a £20 Entertainer voucher.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept any digital entries. All entries must be hand made and physically mailed to our headquarters.

There are four different age categories to enter:

• Under 7's
• 7 - 9-year-olds
• 10 - 12-year-olds
• 13 - 16-year-olds

Absolutely, we'd love for schools to get involved! Your school/class can send in all their festive cards together. Please ensure that every individual design includes the pupils name, age, and either a parent/guardian/school contact name and email address.

For further support in how to host the competition in your school, please contact challenge@salvationarmy.org.uk.

By submitting a card design, please understand that if selected as a winner The Salvation Army will have ownership of the design and may use it in various promotional materials.

Please also ensure you have read through our fundraising T&C’s carefully, available here.

If we haven't answered your question here, please get in touch with us at challenge@salvationarmy.org.uk with the subject "Christmas Card Competition" and one of our team will be happy to help you!