ENCOURAGING YOUNG CHILDREN TO PUT PEN TO PAPER ANGELLICA BELL AND MICHAEL UNDERWOOD
‘Children will shape the optics of the world and that’s why we want to keep the conversation alive’
It’s given a voice to more than a million children since it started in 2011. Now, 500 Words, the writing competition devised by DJ Chris Evans in 2011 and supported by the Duchess of Cornwall for five years, is being given a new lease of life thanks to Angellica Bell and Michael Underwood. For the first time, the young writers are being asked to write to a theme – expressing their views about the Black Lives Matter movement, to encourage important conversations.
Entries for the competition, which is open to
