Colour 4 Everyone

A day for the celebration of colour

Colour 4 Everyone - a day for the celebration of colour founded by Colours of the Soul

This will be an annual event held each year on 21st June and we look forward to worldwide participation.

The aim of the day is for everyone to enjoy and celebrate colour, whilst at the same time raising money for charitable causes through competitions, sponsorship and donations. we have identified and are working with 8 childrens charities for this special event and they are listed below.

Colour

So often taken for granted , colour is powerful and profound; and plays an integral part in everyone's life and overall well-being. Everywhere we look we see colour, it is used in every day language, and yet we often fail to harness it's wonderful healing qualities.

"Colour goes beyond words and visual impact. It is a universal language to be felt with the heart" June McLeod

"Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways" Oscar Wilde

Mandalas

The theme this year is Mandalas. The word mandala in Sanskrit means circle and centre. Mandalas are used for healing and meditation, dating back to ancient times. They also provide fun and beneficial ways of working with colour. Through the use of colour in the mandala, you are able to gently release pent up emotions and bring balance back into your life.

Mandalas exist naturally within nature; they can be seen in flowers,tree trunks, shells, labyrinths, snowflakes, the solar system, circular ripples in water as a raindrop falls, even the human eye is a mandala, to give just a few examples.

The Tibetan Monks create the most wonderful, vibrant and intricate mandalas out of fine particles of coloured sand. These sand mandalas form part of their spiritual practices aimed to bring peace and harmony to the world.

All ages can have fun with mandalas, especially children who love colouring, and at the same time benefit from the wonderful healing effects of both the mandala and colour.

Categories

There are 4 categories for creating mandalas:-

1. Colouring In - Download the free mandala to colour in
2. Sand Mandala - Create a sand mandala (like the Tibetan Monks mentioned above) using the downloaded mandala on which to place the coloured sand.
3. Collage - Create a 'natural' mandala collage out of items you find in nature, eg leaves, flowers, shells, feathers, pebbles etc.
4. Photography - Take photographs of natural mandalas, eg. flowers, shells, water etc.
   

Ideas for Raising Monies for Charity

We suggest monies can be raised in two ways:-

1. Run a competition obtaining an entry fee from the participants wanting to create a mandala and then offering a prize for the winner of the best completed mandala from each of the 4 categories listed above.
2. Getting sponsorship for creating a mandala.

Ideas for Organising Colour Day

Once you've decided on your choice of how to raise money think about how you can get participants involved, e.g:-

1. Gather together your friends, family, colleagues and members of your community to take part or sponsor you
2. Schools and nurseries can arrange competitions for colouring in the downloaded mandala or creating a mandala as listed above from one of the four categories
3. Mandalas can be either created individually or by groups, depending on their size
4. Encourage older children to go out into the country to take photos to enter into the competition and/or to find items for creating a natural mandala collage.
5. Its meant to be a fun day so ensure everyone enjoys themselves
6. Dont forget to take phtotgraphs of your events, the participants and winning mandalas so that they can be posted on our website, there will be pages created for all images.

Documents Provided

The following documents are provided here for you to download.

1. Colour 4 Everyone Blank Mandala
2. Colour 4 Everyone Sponsorship Form
3. Colour 4 Everyone Competition Entry Fee Form

Mandala Colouring Books For Sale

Colours of the Soul have produced Mandala Colouring Books which can be purchased from our Online Store. Bulk orders are most welcome,  we can offer you special discounted prices for the annual 21st June Colour 4 Everyone event,  email your requirements to enquiries@coloursofthesoul.com

Participating Charities

The following children's charities have been selected and kindly agreed to participate.

Monies raised during the Colour 4 Everyone day should be paid direct  to the charity of your choice via the link set up for this purpose below. Once you have chosen the charity/charities you want to benefit click on the link beside their name, this will take you straight through to their payments section where you follow the straight forward instructions for payment and they receive your monies in full, it is safe and secure and the donations will go straight to the charity/charities of your choice.

In no particular order;

• Anthony Nolan Trust - taking back lives from leukaemia, they find and look after potential donors, analyse and manage their data base of tissue-types, research ways to make transplantation more successful - they match patients with donors.
  Donate to the Anthony Nolan Trust
•  Bliss - the special care baby charity, provides vital support and care to premature and sick babies across the UK. They offer guidance and information and also fund ground-breaking research and campaign for babies to receive the best possible level of care regardless of when and where they are born.
  Donate to Bliss
• Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity  - raise money to enable Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide world-class care for its young patients and their families and to pioneer new treatments and cures for childhood illness.
  Donate to the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
• KIDS Childrens Charity - working with disbled children, young people and their families; enabling disabled kids and their families to enjoy their lives. KIDS vision is a world in which all disabled children and young people realise their aspirations and their right to an inclusive community which supports them and their families.
  Donate to the KIDS Childrens Charity
• Foundation for Paediatric Osteopathy  - is an independent, charitable clinic that provides free specialist and comprehensive paediatric osteopathic care including after treatment care advice and a support network for families and children.
  Donate to the Foundation for Paediatric Osteopathy
• Rainbow Trust Childrens Charity - provides practical and emotional support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. They support 1,000 families each year. They have two respite houses in Surrey and Northumberland to provide a break for the whole family, allowing them to spend precious time together as a family.
  Donate to the Rainbow Trust Childrens Charity
• Variety Club Childrens Charity - has been helping sick, disabled and disadvantaged children and young people for over 60 years. They provide Sunshine Coaches, electric wheelchairs, outings to exciting places, equip children's hospitals and help in many other ways.
  Donate to the Variety Club Childrens Charity
• Rhys Daniels Trust - providing 'Home from Home' care for seriously ill children and their families.
  Donate to the Rhys Daniels Trust

What to do now

Download the Colour 4 Everyone sponsorship form,  Colour 4 Everyone Competition Entry Fee Form and Colour 4 Everyone blank Mandala, or buy one or more of our mandala colouring books at very special prices soley for this event, when ordering let us know you will be using them for the day.

Dont forget to take photographs of your events and winning mandalas

Follow Up

After the Colour 4 Everyone event we want to receive your feedback and news. We would like to receive your photos of mandalas and participants, and details of your competitions and sponsorships so that they might be displayed on our website.

Email to enquiries@coloursofthesoul.com
Images to be in Jpeg and in small size for uploading.

Colour 4 Everyone day founded by Colours of the Soul

Let colour become part of your everyday life