đ¸ âBulbs For Beesâ Photography Competition đ
Submit your photograph to be in with a chance to win a #BulbsForBees prize pack with Gaisce â The Presidentâs Award đ¸Â
Celebrating Gaisce â The Presidentâs Awardâs 35th anniversary and nationwide #BulbsForBees campaign, we are calling on all budding photographers across the country to snap their best bulb selfie to be in with a chance of winning a special #BulbsForBees prize pack! Â
The theme of the competition is âSafeguarding the Future of our Bee Populationâ and we will be picking 3 winners to be announced on the 21st of October who have impressed us with their planting, eco-activist and photography skills! Â
We want to see our pollinators at work – so whether thatâs a photo of you in the mud planting your bulbs or a snap to highlight the work youâve already done in your back yard or balcony to promote pollination â we want to hear about it!Â
To enter simply email your best photo to competitions@gaisce.ie by Monday 18th October at midnight and donât forget to include your name, location, contact number and a title for your photograph!Â
Winning photographs will also be displayed at the Gaisce â The Presidentâs Award offices in Phoenix Park, Dublin as well as on our website and social media channels.Â
đ¸ Bulbs For Beesâ Weekly Prize Packs up for grabs!  đ
Use #BulbsForBees on Instagram or Twitter to be in with a chance to win a #BulbsForBees prize pack each week from now until the end of October with Gaisce â The Presidentâs Award đ¸Â
Celebrating Gaisce â The Presidentâs Awardâs 35th anniversary and nationwide #BulbsForBees campaign, we are calling on everyone to show us your bulbs! Â
Every week weâll enter all those who have tweeted/instagrammed using #BulbsForBees into a randomised generator, and you could bee in with a chance to win a signed copy of Ăanna NĂ Lamhnaâs new book Our Wild World, additional bulbs, and lots more Gaisce swag!Â
Share where youâve planted your bulb or tell us a little bit about why you care about saving Irelandâs bees population or why pollination is important. All entries will be considered whether there is a photograph you have taken attached or not.Â
To enter: Tag @GaisceAward in your social media, use #BulbsForBees Â
Winners:Â Winners will be chosen each Thursday from a randomised generator. Winners will be contacted directly by direct message or underneath the photo/post in question and informed. They donât have to accept the prize!Â
đ¸ Photography Competition T&Câs
Aka. The important small print you should check out before participating!Â
1. The theme is âSafeguarding the Future of our Bee Populationâ and entries of any moment or subject captured promoting pollination in action will be accepted.
3. Entrants should email photos to competitions@gaisce.ie as an attachment to email.
4. Entrants should include the title of their image and their own name, location, and contact telephone in the email submission.
5. Winners will receive a special BulbsForBees prize pack which includes a copy of Ăanna NĂ Lamhnaâs new book Our Wild World, a BulbsForBees T-shirt, a trowel, bulbs and a compostable plant pot.
6. The competition is open to residents in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Employees of Gaisce â The Presidentâs Award as well as their immediate families are not eligible to enter. Entrants under the age of 16 years need to have parent or guardian consent to enter prior to submitting any images.
Entrants must not be professional photographers. For the purposes of this competition, a professional photographer will be considered to be someone who makes more than half their annual income from the sale of their photographs.
7. The competition closes on October 18th, 2021.
8. All entries must be the original work of the entrant, that they own the copyright and that they do not infringe the copyright or other rights of any other party or any laws. We are looking for original photographs, so entries must not have been published elsewhere (excluding social media) or have won any competition prize previously.
9. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that any photographs they submit have been taken with the permission of any people featured or their parents/guardians if children under 16 are featured. All individuals featured should have been advised of the purposes of the submission of their photograph and that their photograph may be published by Gaisce. Where an individual is featured, the photographer must seek written consent, and present this to Gaisce if requested.
10. Entrants will retain copyright and moral rights in the photographs that they submit. By entering the competition all entrants:
11. Grant Gaisce â The Presidentâs Award the non-exclusive right to use the photographs to promote the competition they were submitted for, including reproducing the photographs on Gaisce â The Presidentâs Award digital channels (website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram â with credit) or for similar future competitions.
12. Agree that Gaisce may contact them using the contact details they provided to discuss potential use of their photographs beyond the promotion of the competition.
13. Gaisce will ensure that the photographer will always be credited whenever his or her images is used or published by Gaisce.
14. Gaisce â The Presidentâs Award reserves the right to cancel this competition or alter any of the rules at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside of its control.
Please take your photos responsibly!
This is the biggest public pollination project in Ireland, and we would like to thank the following organisations for supporting us in making it happen!
Š 2023 Gaisce â Gradam an UachtarĂĄin, The Presidentâs Award is a company limited by guarantee (CRO 251020) and with a CHY and CRA number (8482 and 20020903 respectively)
