Design a free range T Shirt

It’s time to enter Compassion in World Farming’s new competition ‘Design a free range T- shirt’ for the Chicken Out! Campaign.

Help Compassion raise awareness of factory farming and promote a free-range future by joining in with your friends and family over the summer holidays by designing your very own T- shirt that shouts about the free range future we all want.

Let your creativity roam free. You have from now until 20th September to enter one of two categories – youth (up to 18) and adult (18 and over). Everyone is welcome to have fun, get creating and get involved this summer.

If your T shirt catches the eye of Compassion’s celebrity panel including the legendary actor Brian Blessed, you could be in for a chance to have your T-shirt come to life at Compassion’s online shop for thousands of people to see.

Brian Blessed says “No one has an excuse to be bored over the summer holidays now that Compassion in World Farming has launched their national Free Range T Shirt Competition for the Chicken Out! Campaign. Spread your arty wings and make it known that you are a free range T shirt designer. We can all play a part in promoting positive change for farm animal welfare”

To find out more, keep up to date and submit your design visit http://www.chickenout.tv/. To ensure that the competition is open to “non techies”, you can also post your design entries too. Call Compassion on 01483 521 953 for more information.

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Notes to Editors

For further information or to arrange interviews contact on Caroline Burkie

01483 521952 or 07771 926005 (out of office hours) or email caroline.burkie@ciwf.org

Compassion campaign to end cruel factory farming. These systems impose mindless suffering on billions of farm animals reared for food around the world. Farm animal welfare and wellbeing is at the heart of all we do and all we do is founded on scientific fact.

Figures released in May 2010 show that, for the first time, over half the eggs bought in the UK now come from hens living in cage-free lives. This is thanks to people like you, and our dedication to improving the lives of farm animals.

Sadly though, 47% of the eggs purchased in the UK still come from battery-caged hens.  We also have a long way to go to create a free-range future for all our chickens. This is why we need your help – make a day of it and make our celebrity judges work hard to choose the winning design.

As part of the competition, Compassion will highlight a range of other information relevant to our Chicken Out! Campaign.  This will include the following:

CELIA LEWIS http://www.celialewis.co.uk/ was born in 1948 and has lived all her life in Surrey.  She has three daughters and four grandchildren. She studied life and portrait charcoal drawing with Signorina Simi in Florence and latterly has been a regular member of an art group near her home.  She is a member of several local Art Societies and has held various exhibitions as well as exhibiting annually with the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Watercolour Society.

Although she also paints in acrylics, watercolours are her first love and she finds her subject matter in her own garden where she keeps chickens.  These featured in her first book, 'Keeping Chickens', published in April 07 by David & Charles and in its follow up 'Choosing & Raising Chickens'.  Her latest publication 'The Illustrated Guide to Chickens' features 100 different breeds with over 200 watercolour illustrations and a foreword by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.  This book will be published by A & C Black in Spring 2010.

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