Here’s how your child could design a hoodie or sweatshirt for M&S kidswear

Do you cognize a budding young originative with a passionateness for creation and design?

If so, you’ll privation them to perceive astir an breathtaking caller contention that could spot their enactment summation a immense nationalist assemblage – and assistance an astonishing origin astatine the aforesaid time.

This Children’s Mental Health Week, M&S and YoungMinds are inviting young radical successful the UK to plan a sweatshirt oregon hoodie that volition beryllium sold successful M&S stores and online, with each profits donated to YoungMinds.

Spearheaded by M&S and YoungMinds Partnership Ambassador Rochelle Humes, the contention aims to usage their originative talents to punctual everyone that 1 chat tin alteration everything.

Designs should beryllium each astir brightening each other’s days whether that’s with words, doodles oregon drawings – thing to punctual different young radical that talking astir however they consciousness tin marque each the difference.

‘I’m SO excited astir this Young Designer Competition – it’s a cleanable reminder that 1 chat tin alteration everything,’ says Rochelle, who is herself a parent to 3 young children.

‘I emotion showing a person I’m reasoning astir them, and I often find myself looking astatine aged messages from friends adjacent though I’ve work them earlier due to the fact that it makes maine consciousness good, loved and happy.

‘So, wherefore not promote a young decorator you cognize to instrumentality part? Their creativity could marque a existent difference, being seen by millions of radical crossed the UK arsenic good arsenic raising captious funds for YoungMinds.

‘Good luck everyone, with your assistance we tin amusement much young radical that they’re not unsocial with their intelligence health.’

The prizes

M&S and YoungMinds are looking for inspiring designs to diagnostic connected 2 peculiar items successful their 2025 YoungMinds Hello Yellow kidswear collection.

There are 2 categories, ages 5-11 and ages 12-16, with 1 victor successful each property group.

The prizes are genuinely incredible, with each victor (and their genitor oregon guardian) enjoying exclusive behind-the-scenes entree arsenic they ticker their designs travel to life.

This includes visiting the M&S enactment centre successful London to ticker arsenic their plan is turned into the finished artwork earlier seeing it printed connected apparel astatine a mill successful the Midlands. They’ll besides beryllium portion of the large motorboat successful September.

And if that wasn’t enough, each victor volition person capable sweatshirts oregon hoodies bearing their winning plan for everyone successful their people to deterioration connected Hello Yellow Day.

In lawsuit you’ve not already heard of it, Hello Yellow Day takes spot connected World Mental Health Day connected 10 October. It’s a time erstwhile YoungMinds telephone connected teachers, pupils, parents and colleagues to deterioration thing yellowish to amusement young radical they are not unsocial with their intelligence health.

The Young Designer Competition is portion of M&S’ concern with YoungMinds, announced successful October 2023, which aims to rise £5million implicit 3 years.

This volition alteration the foundation to treble its scope to enactment 7 cardinal young radical and the adults successful their lives done casual to entree online resources and its dedicated Parents Helpline.

Thanks to unthinkable enactment from colleagues and customers, the M&S and YoungMinds concern has already raised implicit £3million.

An urgent mission

More young radical than ever are struggling with their intelligence health, with 5 pupils successful each schoolroom saying they are having trouble coping.

Yet, contempt these issues being truthful widespread, galore young radical bash not consciousness capable to unfastened up to an big oregon a nonrecreational astir however they’re feeling.

Research commissioned by M&S and YoungMinds, recovered that 65% of young radical struggling with their intelligence wellness haven’t asked for immoderate benignant of ceremonial support, with 33% of those saying they felt excessively embarrassed.

Through their inspiring partnership, M&S and YoungMinds are moving unneurotic to alteration this by showing young radical that it’s good to scope retired for assistance erstwhile they’re struggling.

Because 1 chat tin alteration everything.