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The competition is open to primary school pupils (Foundation, Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2) and pupils from special schools throughout Wales.
The competition starts on Monday 5 September 2022 and closes Friday 4 November 2022.
To enter, each child should draw (e.g. pencil, pen, crayon, pastel, etc.) or paint a picture based on one of the following key farm safety messages: Please note we will not accept photographic entries
- Farms are not playgrounds
- Bulls can kill
- Stay Alert… or you’ll get hurt
- Danger… tractors and trailers at work
- Stay off roofs
- Look Out Look Up – Watch out for overhead powerlines
- Don’t learn safety by accident
- Use your head, wear your helmet
- Don’t be daft, stay away from the PTO shaft
- Be safe, be seen!
- Take safety seriously
- It’s your health, your safety, YOUR CHOICE
Entries should be 2D (by this we mean it should be flat) and must be submitted landscape-style on either A3 or A4 sized plain paper.
Entries can be submitted by the following methods:
By Email: High resolution photographs or scans (JPEG) by e-mail to farm_safety_foundation@nfumutual.co.uk
By Post:
Yellow Wellies Calendar Competition, Farm Safety Foundation, Tiddington Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 7BJ
For each submission, a cover note should be provided including the child’s name, age, primary school attended and contact telephone number for a parent/guardian or responsible adult.
The judging panel will select 12 winners, each of which will receive a Yellow Wellies goody bag and their winning entry will be allocated a month in the calendar.
Terms & Conditions
These standard terms and conditions are subject to any other terms and conditions provided to you or to which you are referred at the time of entering the competition.
- This competition is organised by the Farm Safety Foundation (FSF) Tiddington Road, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7BJ
- FSF reserves the right to void, suspend, cancel or amend the competition at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be posted on www.yellowwellies.org
- In the event of any dispute regarding the competition, the final decision of FSF shall be binding and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
Qualifying entrants – Entrants must satisfy the following conditions to enter the competition:
- Be attending a Primary School in Wales
- Submit a piece of original artwork that is their own work, which is not subject to copyright art or infringes copyright and fits the specified criteria
- Employees of FSF, members of the Wales Farm Safety Partnership and their families are not eligible to enter this competition.
- Use of a false name or address will result in disqualification.
- FSF reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of these terms and conditions.
- FSF reserves the right to disqualify an entrant or work if their conduct or submitted art entry is contrary to the spirit or intention of the competition.
- FSF will not accept competition entries that are automatically generated by computer; completed by third parties in bulk; illegible, altered, reconstructed, forged or tampered with; or incomplete.
Competition Entries
11. Entries can be posted or emailed to farm_safety_foundation@nfumutual.co.uk Please ensure full contact details are submitted with the entry.
12. Artwork should be A4 or A3 in size, landscape and 2D. Entrants can use a range of materials and techniques from the following list: drawing (e.g. pencil, pen, crayon, pastel, etc.), painting.
13. Photographic entries will not be accepted.
14. Entry to the competition is free, however, all materials for the creation and submission of artwork must be provided by the individual.
15. All artwork must be the original idea of the entrant and not infringe on anyone else’s copyright. The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday 4 NOV 2022.
16. Entries received after the closing date are automatically disqualified.
17. FSF will accept one entry per child. Multiple entries will result in disqualification.
18. Twelve winners will be chosen from the entries by a judging panel assembled from the FSF, Wales Farm Safety Partnership and the Bunford family. These will be judged blind, with the judges not knowing who has submitted each entry.
19. The 12 finalists will each receive a certificate, a yellow wellies goody bag and a copy of the 2023 calendar. These prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternatives to the prizes will be offered.
20. Artwork cannot be returned and some entries will also be displayed on the FSF website and social media channels @yellowwelliesuk.
21. FSF cannot accept responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation, communications line failure, theft, destruction, alteration of, or unauthorised access to entries, quadrants or entries lost or delayed whether or not arising during operation as a result of server functions, virus, bugs or other causes outside its control.
22. FSF accepts no responsibility for entries not received for whatever reason or for missing contact details submitted with each entry.
23. By entering this competition, the parent on behalf of an entrant is indicating his/her agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.
24. By entering the competition, the winner(s) agree(s) to take part in publicity e.g. media, social media and featuring on FSF or Welsh Government websites: www.yellowwellies.org
25. Images of the finalist’s artwork will be posted on social media with limited information about the entrant – e.g. child’s first name and age.
Liability
The Farm Safety Foundation cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by any entrant entering the competition or as a result of accepting any prize. FSF is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet, including any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the competition.
Data Protection and Publicity
Farm Safety Foundation handles information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK GDPR and is the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018. The personal information provided by you when entering into the competition will be used to administer the competition and will not be shared with anyone unless the law allows us to do so. Farm Safety Foundation will hold your name, age and address to announce the winner of the competition and for promotional purposes.
How to contact us
You can contact us in relation to the competition by writing to the Farm Safety Foundation,Tiddington Road, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7BJ or by email at farm_safety_foundation@nfumutual.co.uk
