STAMP UPDATE
Guernsey stamps to feature competition winners
Guernsey Post has revealed the twelve children who have won a design a-stamp competition and will see their designs featured on one of two forthcoming stamp sets, #GuernseyTogether and #AlderneySpirit. The campaign, which was launched by Guernsey’s Post philatelic team earlier this month, invited schoolchildren across Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm to create stamp designs, which should relate to the current pandemic in a positive way.
The designs for the stamps, which are due to be released in late summer following approval of Her Majesty, The Queen, were chosen from over 200 entries by independent judges, Tom Langford, commissioner for Guernsey Arts Commission and managing director of award-winning design and advertising agency, The Potting Shed, and Al Mitchell, who has been with the Guernsey-based agency for over ten years and now holds the position of executive creative director. Tom commented: ‘We thoroughly enjoyed reviewing all of the stamp design entries as they’re all so colourful and vibrant, which truly reflects the positivity across the islands right now.’
Bridget Yabsley, head of philatelic at Guernsey Post, said: ‘This is the fourth time in our fifty-year history that we have invited children to design stamps for us and, given how well they have responded to the current pandemic, we felt it was fitting to ask them to create a special set of stamps that recognise the positive aspects of the pandemic as a result of COVID-19.’
Guernsey Post is to donate all proceeds from the sale of its #GuernseyTogether stamps equally between two charities: the Guernsey COVID-19 Response Appeal, which goes towards helping frontline workers, funding medical equipment and the hardship fund, and the Social Investment Fund’s COVID-19 Community Charity Appeal, which helps local
