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Sue Ryder Care has teamed up with online craft and design community Folksy to set you the UPCYCLE CHRISTMAS challenge. A competition to reclaim craft and upcycle charity shop stuff into hand crafted one-offs, which will be auctioned to the public in the run up to Christmas, in aid of Sue Ryder Care.

To enter:
Register with Folksy to download your printable voucher to claim your free bag of clothes and brica-brac from a Sue Ryder Care shop near you and start getting creative. When picking up your free bag of clothes and bric-a-brac if you have any unwanted quality items you could donate it would help the shop greatly.
You can create anything you like and use anything you like; the only rules are that the items you use must be second hand and there is only one bag of Sue Ryder Care donated stock per entrant. Accessories, home ware, fashion, furniture... you choose what you create from Sue Ryder stock.

Judging:
Our celebrity panel of judges, which include Red or Dead’s Wayne Hemmingway and Vogue TV’s Louise Roe, will choose four winners based on
the following criteria:
• Best use of materials
• Craft skills used
• Most innovative piece
• Fun / playfulness
An additional prize will be awarded to the object voted for by the Folksy community.

Winning:
The winners' works will feature in the Sue Ryder Care’s flagship store
in Camden in the New Year.

Deadlines:
30th of November – You can claim your free bag of clothes at your local Sue Ryder store just by taking your ticket available from Folksy.com

6pm on the 5th of December - The deadline for submissions.

7th December – Winners announced.

7th – 13th December - online auction for all the items entered.

All proceeds will be given to Sue Ryder Care.

Go to Folksy blog and Sue Ryder for more information and to see the things people have made as they are submitted.
Follow Upcycle Christmas on twitter @upcyclexmas and on the competition Facebook page