The London Clippykit Challenge: Can you pocket the problem? 
Clippykit in partnership with Make Your Mark invites you to take part in an exclusive competition, just for girls in Year 9 and 10 in London. Students are invited to set up a Make Your Mark Club. The club will then design a campaign using the Clippykit concept to raise awareness about an issue important to them.
What is the Challenge?
The Challenge is to come up with an issue that's important to you and then use the Clippykit concept to raise money and awareness of it. Download the full details (PDF: 1MB)Why use Clippykits to support your favourite cause?
- Making others aware of a cause is the first step towards change. Clippykit bags make a walking advertisement to inform others.
- Using a cool bag to raise awareness of an important issue really helps focus attention.
- Clippykits are very easy to customise. There is a huge scope to be creative and loads of potential to make money from them.
What issues count?
- Anything that matters to you. It could be a global issue global warming, war, racism
- It could be a problem nearer to home such as bullying, divorce, sexuality, anorexia
- It could be a charity you would like to support dogs, breast cancer, famine relief
- Or just something that makes you cross like too much traffic, queues, exams, lunch
What's more...
Fashion and a social conscience can go hand in hand. Becoming pro active about an issue can be very empowering and in turn can help young women overcome their own worries improve their self esteem and encourage their aspirations.When I was at Putney High, we took our competitions very seriously, we entered everything from Choir of the Year to Young Enterprise. Being part of a team and creating a concept or product from beginning to end is motivating and exciting. I feel really proud of the enterprises I took part in, they made me stand out from the crowd when I left school and I still use the skills I learnt running Clippykit.
Calypso Rose, Founder of ClippyKit
Students will develop their team-work, creativity and enterprise capability. They will become more aware of the impact they have on the world around them whilst gaining independence and drive to make ideas happen.What will the winning team receive?
The team that wins the Challenge will receive the following fabulous goodies:- A selection of Clippykit accessories for each person in the winning group
- Calypso Rose, the designer and founder of Clippykit, will come in at the end of term to talk to the school about starting out and making a success of your own business.
- A Kodak EasyShare 10mega pixels digital camera for the winning team.
- £100 to make an idea happen in your Make Your Mark Club.
What we give you to start you off
Each team will be given a large 24 pocket Clippykit bag to work from. This was the very first bag and the bag that started the company. We know from personal experience this bag works as an attention grabber. When you carry this bag down the street expect to be stopped - a lot!You have two sides to work on - you can do what you like to the bag, attach items to it, hang things from it, even use it as part of a larger collage, idea or art installation...whatever takes your fancy!
How to enter
The Challenge is free to enter. Register your Make Your Mark Club between 13th May - 21st May.All we need to know is:
- School name
- Contact details
- Teacher name.
Key dates for the Clippykit Challenge are as follows:
- Register groups doing the Challenge by: 21 May 2008
- Teachers receive Clippykit bag on: 6 June 2008
- LET THE COMPETITION BEGIN!: 9 June 2008
- Hand in entry: 20 June 2008
- Awards announced: 30 June 2008
You can download more information about the Clippykit Challenge (PDF: 3.84 MB)
Alternatively, you can see more teacher notes and rules of the competition.
Calypso welcomes you to the Challenge!
Make Your Mark ambassador and Clippykit creator Calypso Rose explains a bit more about the Challenge and wishes you good luck!If you need any inspiration here's one we made earlier...
The Clippykit Concept
The business was set up and is run by Calypso Rose who was 22 years when she started Clippykit. The target audience is girls aged 10 - 25 years and 350,000 were sold last year across the U.K and they supply John Lewis, Selfridges and Harrods.Clippykit products also have an enviable celebrity following such as Jamie and Jools Oliver, Helena Bonham Carter and Jacqueline Wilson.
- Clippykits have opening pockets which you can fill with all your own photographs, fabrics, messages and mementoes. The Clippykit pockets can be filled with anything that means something to YOU.
- You can make the Clippykit personal, unique and original.
- Clippykits are eye catching and fun.
- Clippykits encourage you to be creative .
For more info about Clippykit visit www.clippykitlondon.co.uk
The Make Your Mark Club
Make Your Mark Clubs are run by students and supported by staff. They provide time and space for young people to make their ideas happen.- Every club is unique and the enterprising ideas that are brought to life range from improving the school grounds to starting a fair trade business.
- The club offers a chance to kick-start year-round enterprise activity amongst your students, or you can take advantage of it just for this competition.