We're looking for budding photographers to enter their images! You'll be in with the chance of being featured in our popular Calendar and Christmas Cards which are sent to thousands of households across County Durham and further afield!
We are looking for photographs for our much-loved Christmas Cards and Hospice Calendar. It is one of our most favourite jobs to look through the variety of photographs submitted, and we can’t wait to see what this year’s competition brings!
We are now looking for images for our 2026 Calendar and 2025 Christmas Cards.
2026 Calendar
We are looking for 12 seasonal images from across County Durham to feature in our 2026 Calendar. These must be landscape and can be black and white or colour.
2025 Cards
For the Cards, we are looking especially for snowy wintery images from across County Durham. These can be portrait, landscape, panoramic or square.
Photographs taken on a mobile device are accepted however they must be of the highest quality to be considered for print.
Photographers will be credited alongside their image, they retain copyright, and the sale of the Cards and Calendars helps to raise vital funds for St Cuthbert’s Hospice so we can continue to care for all who need us. The Cards and Calendars are sold online, in our nine charity shops and as we get nearer to Christmas at fairs and events we attend and host.
You may enter up to 5 photographs. Please be selective and only enter your very best.
Please enter as soon as possible, entries will close in mid February 2025.
Do not re-enter images previously chosen for the Cards or Calendars. Anything previously submitted but not chosen is fine.
Rules:
1. Only five entries (maximum) per person, please.
2. All photographs must have been taken in County Durham.
3. It’s okay to enter studio photographs, macro shots or astro images, as long as you mention where they were taken from, and that location was in County Durham.
4. All entries must sent to communications@stcuthbertshospice.com.
5. By entering the contest, you grant us permission to use your image in publicity materials relating to the contest, at no charge. You retain all other rights to your image.
6. Composites are permitted, as long as all of the elements used were created by the photographer.
7. You are encouraged not to watermark your image, to make it as pleasing to the eye as possible, but the decision is yours. URLs or any other text aimed at publicising a business or website will not be permitted.
