Welcome to the 2026
VICTA Sunflower Race

The VICTA Sunflower Race 2026 is now open! Share your photos from now until the race closes on 31 August 2026. Everyone who shares a photo will receive a small treat from us. Plus every photo you share is an extra entry into our prize draw to win a £30 Argos voucher.

The VICTA Sunflower Race is open to children who are:

  • Registered or registrable blind or partially sighted and their siblings
  • Age 0 to 17 years
  • Permanent resident of the UK

Please note, by sharing photos with us you are giving permission for us to share them on VICTA’s websites and social media channels along with your child’s first name. If you do not give permission for any of this information to be shared, please make it clear when submitting any photographs.

Enter your photos using the form below and check back soon for our gallery!

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Girl wearing glasses admiring flowerpots containing soil and freshly planted seeds.

Megan enjoyed planting the seeds.

As tall as a mini figure!

Boy smiling in front of sunflower seedlings holding a sign that says 'as tall as a mini figure'

Me and my brothers have just repotted our sunflowers and put them in the greenhouse.

As tall as a mini figure!

Blonde girl in sunglasses sat on a patio chair holding a sunflower sapling next to a mini figure.

Felicity’s flower is also as tall as a mini figure!

Boy smiling at the camera showing off growing sunflower seedlings.

I am so excited my seeds are now sprouting up. They are growing. I keep them on the windowsill and water them well.

Boy smiling in a garden holding a flowerpot up next to a mug.

Vincent has been growing his sunflowers in a mini green house.

A sunflower in a planter growing next to a white mug.

Willow’s sunflowers are growing lovely this year.

A boy next to a sunflower pot on an indoor windowsill holding a sign that says 'as tall as a mug'

As tall as a mug!

I am glad my sunflower got this tall and it makes me very happy.
A smiling boy next to a sunflower pot on a windowsill indoors holding up a sign that says 'as tall as a mug'

The sunflowers are zooming in growth!

Girl smiling at the camera next to sunflower saplings as tall as mini figures in red pots.

Harry, George and Rosie’s sunflowers are growing fast.

Two smiling children holding pots containing sunflower saplings in a kitchen.

As tall as a mug!

Girl holding a potted sunflower on her knee.

Megan’s re-planted the sunflowers into a different pot.

Girl looking at a sunflower that is as tall as a welly boot.

As tall as a welly boot!

Lana’s sunflower is growing to the sunshine

A boy wearing red welly boots smiling next to a potted sunflower.

As tall as a welly boot!

A potted sunflower on a kitchen counter in front of a sign saying as tall as a welly boot.

Elena’s sunflower is growing so fast!

A boy crouching next to potted sunflowers and a black welly boot.

Taller than a welly boot.

A boy wearing glasses and smiling crouched by a potted sunflower.
A welly boot holding a sign saying 'as tall as a welly boot' next to a sunflower.

It is growing really fast in the sunshine!

A sunflower in a planter in front of red flowering plants.

The sun and rain are really helping our sunflowers grow.

A girl sitting in a garden next to a sunflower growing from a pot as tall as a welly boot.

Eddie is loving watching the sunflowers grow!

Sunflower in a shady planter growing tall behind a sign which reads 'as tall as an umbrella'

As tall as an umbrella!

A boy standing next to a tall potted sunflower.

As tall as an umbrella!

A boy wearing a sunhat and summer clothes standing in front of a growing sunflower that is getting very big.
Boy in a blue fleece next to a sunflower as tall as him.