Volunteers Week Competition 2018

Volunteers Week Competition 2018

Volunteers’ Week Competition 2018

Entry Form

To celebrate Volunteers’ Week 2018 Volunteer Essex are inviting volunteers countywide to tell their own volunteering story. Three winners will have their story featured on the Volunteer Essex website during the month of June. In addition the author of each winning story will receive a Mark and Spencer’s Gift Voucher to the value of £20.

To enter the competition please complete your details and add your volunteering story in approximately 500 words. Your article could be about how you came to volunteering, how it has affected you, what you enjoy about it etc. It’s up to you!

Your entry should include at least one photo (preferably as a jpg. and in landscape format). Before supplying photographs for use on our website please ensure that you have received permission from any third parties that feature in the photograph.

Please read the Terms and Conditions at the end of this form before submitting your entry.

Closing date for entries: Thursday 24th May 2018

Your Name (Only your first name will be published on the website):
Name of Organisation you volunteer for:
Your volunteering role:
Your Email Address:
Contact Telephone Number:

Print your story here (approx. 500 words):

I give permission for the story I have submitted to be published on the Volunteer Essex website

YesNo

I confirm that myself and others appearing in the attached photograph(s) have given their consent to publication on the Volunteer Essex website.

YesNo

If you are not a winner would you be willing to let us publish your story on the Volunteer Essex website at a later date?

YesNo

Signed:

Date:

Terms and Conditions

  1. Each competition entry must be the personal story of the entrant. Stories submitted about a third party will not be accepted.
  2. Entries and photographs must be submitted by email to Paper copies will be not be accepted.
  3. Entries must include a photograph. (As photographs will be published on the Volunteer Essex website entrants must have permission from any third parties appearing in the photograph.)
  4. Entrants must live within the area covered by Volunteer Essex. See
  5. Volunteering stories must relate to an organisation with volunteering opportunities listed on the Volunteer Essex website. If you are unsure please contact your local Volunteer Centre who will be happy to provide this information.
  6. Volunteer Essex reserves the right to edit submitted articles and does not guarantee publication.
  7. Volunteer Essex will not use submitted articles for any purpose other than publication to the Volunteer Essex website.