Art Venue CIC co-ordinates, collates and exhibits the annual UK Children's Fine Art Competition which, itself, contributes to The International Children's Exhibition of Fine Arts (ICEFA) - the largest art competition for children in the world.

The ICEFA is organized by The Lidice Gallery, situated in Czech village of Lidice, and regularly receives around 25,000 entries from over 60 countries. Lidice has an infamous place in history as being the site of a filmed atrocity, perpetrated by The Nazis in 1942, in which the former village was levelled and all signs of life exterminated. The "new" Lidice, rebuilt between 1947 - 1950 with the help of money raised by the working class people of Great Britain, is known, symbolically the world over, as a place for reconciliation.

It is this that gives the Lidice Gallery its greatest momentum in driving the art competition forward. It is the fight against rascism and raising aspirations among disaffected youngsters in the UK which drives Art Venue CIC forward in expanding the children's art competition here in the UK.

The UK Children's Fine Art Competition is open to all children, either individually or via schools, aged between 5 and 16. All entries are received by Art Venue CIC and judged by a panel of renowned UK judges. A prizegiving event is held annually in Stoke-on-Trent (the co-ordinating base for the campaign which helped rebuild Lidice) where winners will be invited to receive their prizes.

All pieces entered into The UK Children's Fine Art Competition are shipped to Lidice for consideration in the ICEFA.

If you or your school would like more information on entering the 2012 UK Children's Fine Art Competition please e-mail info@artvenue.org