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Storyonics Schools Competition 2012

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I have been sent some information about the Storyonics Schools Competition 2012 which I thought might be interesting to mums and dads or teachers. The competition is a class story writing competition and there are two categories. Category one is for pupils pupils aged 5-11 and category two for  those aged 12-16. I used to love these sort of competitions when I was at school so you might want to let your little ones teachers know that registration is open.

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There are prizes to be won. 1st, 2nd & 3rd places in each category win £250, £100 and £50 of educational resources respectively for their schools and Storyonics games for the pupils in the winning classes. All participating winning schools will each receive a ‘Storyonics for PC/Whiteboard’ worth £19.99 RRP.

The competition will be judged by Janet Foxley who wrote Muncle Trogg. Registration is open now. Participating schools must register by Friday 20th July 2012 and all competition entries must be submitted by email by 5pm Friday 26th October 2012. At the start of September schools are send twelve slides with four image on each slide. These are used to create a story by the class and should encourage the use of imagination as well as being fun.

The competition is run by ZooBooKoo and is supported by The Communication Trust and Volunteer Reading Help. You can register by visiting zoobookoo.com and clicking on the Storyonics competition. Don’t forget to tell your child’s teacher!

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Rangemaster Launch a Competition to win a Rangemaster Cooker.

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Have you ever wanted to cook up a storm on your very own range cooker. Rangemaster are offering you the change to win your very own Professional Deluxe 90 range cooker  which is worth two thousand pounds. How amazing is that?Rangemaster

It looks like a fabulous cooker with a double oven, a large main oven and a tall electric fan oven. The top has four burners in three sizes and a triple ring wok burner. It also has a powerful grill. The electric version has an easy clean hob, which is brilliant if your hob ends up as messy as mine. All this and it is only 90 cm wide, it will even fit into my kitchen.

How can you enter this competition and be in with a chance to win this cooker? It is simple, you just need to follow these steps:

  1. Go to www.facebook.com/RangemasterUK and like the page.
  2. Click on the ‘Win A Rangemaster’ application and enter your contact details.
  3. Share the competition with your friends and that’s it, you are entered.

Competition closes on Monday 30th April 2012

If you do enter, good luck!

Sudocrem Skin Care Cream Launch A New Competition

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Who hasn’t heard of Sudocrem? Sudocrem Antiseptic Cream been the standby of mums for years who use it in the fight against nappy rash, as well as using it for treating cuts and grazes, sunburn and bedsores. Now you can get Sudocrem Skin Care Cream, a beauty related sister product. It is gaining a celebrity following as well as becoming a must have skin care product. It comes in a 30g tube which slips nicely into your handbag. As well as being gentle and soothing it can be used as often as you need, on problem-skin including spot prone or the problem patches common on elbows and knees. It can even be applied to your skin after being out in the sun. The size of the tube is even hand luggage compliant so if you do a lot of travelling it is ideal.

To celebrate the new product launch Sudocrem are running a fabulous competition on their Facebook page.  You can enter to win a Diane Von Furstenberg handbag, iPhone 4S and a year’s supply of Sudocrem Skin Care Cream. I know I rushed off to enter.

If you want to enter as well, this is what you need to do:

  1. Go to www.facebook.com/SudocremTube and ‘Like’ the page
  2. Click on the Diane Von Furstenberg & iPhone 4S Competition page
  3. Follow the competition page instructions: Enter your email and answer the three product related questions correctly

Simple! All you need to do now is to keep your fingers tightly crossed! I know I am!

Competition Finish Date– 25th February 2012
Competition winners announced– 29th February 2012
The Sudocrem Skin Care Cream competition prizes:
  • 1st Prize: Diane Von Furstenberg Handbag, iPhone 4S (16GB) and 12 tubes of Sudocrem Skin Care Cream
  • 2nd Prize: 50 runners up will receive a tube of Sudocrem Skin Care Cream

If you do enter, Good Luck.

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An Image Of Something I Love

Whats Your Story? A Competition from TrendMicro in partnership with Get Safe Online

An Image Of Something I Love

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“I am sharing an image of something I love with Love All Blogs and Albelli”

Love All Blogs is a website that brings together blogs so if you are looking for a new blog or a great post it is worth looking there. They are running a competition in conjunction with Albelli and the idea is to share a photo of something you love on your blog.

I chose this photo of Highforce Waterfall.

To me this photo represents the beauty found in nature. It also reminds me of my families love of adventure and exploring new places. We love to go on day trips and finding this waterfall was a real adventure. We lost the way a few times and ended up in the middle of nowhere. Once we arrived it was a real pleasure to sit and admire the waterfall and relax in the sun.

As I mentioned above “I am sharing an image of something I love with Love All Blogs and Albelli”. If you are a blogger you can join in and show an image of something you love on your blog for a chance to win an acrylic or canvas print to a value of £100.  As well as this as a thank you for spreading the love Albelli are offering a free Landscape M photo book worth £15.95 to every blogger who enters. You can create your own photo book to store those treasured memories.

If you would like to have a go, just click on the badge below. The competition ends at midday on Valentines Day 2012.

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Whats Your Story? A Competition Launched By Trend Micro In Partnership With Get Safe Online

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Yesterday was Safer Internet Day, which I realised when my son came home from school clutching a load of leaflets and papers about staying safe online. I was really pleased that there is such a thing as most kids these days use the internet but are not really aware of the dangers. It has become very much a normal part of life today. My son keeps pestering me to get a Facebook account, which I will not allow (he is only eleven and below the legal age) but many of his friends have one. You hear so many horror stories about cyber bullying and worse that it is great to have something that educates kids about staying safe online.

Research from Trend Micro has shown that:

  • 12% of children accept any friend request they receive on Facebook
  • Nearly half of children (44%) have friends on Facebook that they have never met in real life
  • Half of children also use the internet mostly on their own, unsupervised, and admit to not telling the truth about bad experiences online
  • 41% of parents feel that their children hide some of their online activity… but 57% of children admit to hiding online activity from Mum and Dad

These are worrying statistics and I was really interested to hear about this competition launched by Trend Micro in partnership with Get Safe Online. The competition is called What’s Your Story and it encourages young people to share their ideas on ‘How to be Web Safe’. It encourages young people to share their advice on the best ways to stay safe on the internet, while reminding them that the internet is a powerful tool and using it is a life skill. It was launched on 7th February 2012  as part of Safer Internet Day.

As the name of the competition suggests it is encouraging you to tell your story about being safe online. If you have had a bad experience on the internet, or know someone who has or maybe you have some tips for saying safe online, then you should enter the competition and share the story.  The ‘What’s Your Story’ competition invites schools, families and individuals aged 7 and above to submit a short story, song, poem, drawing or even a video to share their advice to other young people about How To Be Web Safe.  There is a grand prize of £5000 for the overall winner. There are also three runners up prizes of  £500 each and one school runner up prize of £1000. You can submit entries until 3 April 2012.

Rik Ferguson, Director Security Research & Communication EMEA at Trend Micro said “Following the success of last year’s global competition, we wanted to expand the ways in which young people in the UK could take part in the contest. There are now plenty of ways for them to express their creativity and show others how to best take responsibility for their actions online and raise awareness of the issues they may face. Keeping children safe online is paramount; from cyberbullying to viruses and the more publicised risks, it’s all about striking the right balance between allowing them to maintain a sense of independence and feeling able to ask for advice  and this competition allows them to do just that, while sharing their own experiences too.”

As part of the campaign, Trend Micro Internet Safety for Kids and Families has teamed up with some of the world’s leading organisations, to create a judging panel which includes: Get Safe Online, Childnet International, Yahoo! and Diana Award.

Tony Neate, Managing Director ‘Get Safe Online’, said: ” The “What’s Your Story?” competition is a brilliant opportunity for young people and schools to get creative and learn from their peers about using technology safely, in a fun and engaging way, whilst encouraging everyone to act responsibly online. With recent research from Trend Micro showing that a third of children aged 11-15 admit to taking more risks online than in real life, there’s never been a better time to remind them that the internet is a powerful tool and using it is an important life skill.”

I will be encouraging my son to enter this competition and hope that he learns something useful from it. If you want to ;earn more about the competition or to submit your entry then you need to visit www.trendmicro.co.uk/whatsyourstory  or email trend@octopuscomms.net

Motors.co.uk launch national search for most deserving local hero

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Everyone knows a special person, the person in your community who goes out of their way to help others. They do not make a big deal about it, but somehow they are always there when help is needed and really make a difference to the local community.  They do not seek a reward for their actions and maybe do not even realize how much their help means to another. Now there is a way to tell them.  The leading used car website Motors.co.uk has launched a UK wide search to seek out these outstanding people. If you know someone like this you have a chance to nominate them and the winner will be rewarded with the gift of a car worth £10,000 and a donation of £2,500 to a registered charity of their choice.

Do you know someone who:

  • works tirelessly helping others
  • has made an outstanding contribution to a local charity or community project
  • selflessly gives up their time to help an elderly neighbour
  • has changed someones life for the better

If so, go along to http://mostdeserving.motors.co.uk and nominate them using the simple form. You never know it may lead to a great surprise for them.

The competition launches today on http://mostdeserving.motors.co.uk and invites the general public to nominate their most deserving, using a simple form.

Phill Jones, Commercial Director at Motors.co.uk, explained: “There’s so much bad news and you don’t hear enough about the great things that individuals do to help others, without reward.

“As well as providing the winner with a valuable, useful prize in a car from our wide range, we want to celebrate all the thousands of people who contribute so much to our local communities by sharing their unique stories.”

There are two parts to the competition. In the first stage the nominations are open, you can nominate anyone you like and support the nomination with images and links to media to help tell the story about the nominee. When this stage closes the Most Deserving Panel at Motors.co.uk will chose finalists from all regions of the UK. The general public will then be invited to vote for their favourites. The three finalists who get the most votes will be assessed by the Panel and the winner will be announced.

The competition launched on 18th January 2012 and will end on 5th March 2012.

You can find full terms and conditions at http://mostdeserving.motors.co.uk

You can also keep up to date on twitter using the hashtag  #MotorsWinaCar and to let your friends know about the competition and your entry, if you nominate someone.

I think this is a lovely way to reward someone who works so hard and good luck to everyone who enters.

New Covent Garden Soup launches Peoples Soup.

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In January New Convent Garden Soup Co. is launching its first ever Soup of the Month, which has been created by you! In the summer 2011  they launched the Soup of the Month competition where soup fans were asked to submit their favourite soup recipe to the New Covent Garden website. The public were then asked to vote which one they thought was the nicest and then expert chefs made a shortlist.  From the shortlist a winner was picked.

The Chinese New Year theme was won by Michael Lamont, well done to him. The soup was Chicken and Creamed Corn and now it is available on the shelves to buy. How amazing is that? The recipe was inspired by a soup his Dad used to cook for him using a method the Chinese term ‘egg-drop ‘soup, beaten eggs are gently dropped into the soup while it is cooking to give it a unique taste. The soup is a mix of tasty chicken, sweetcorn and spring onion and is ideal for the cold weather. It will warm you up while imparting its unique oriental flavours to celebrate Chinese New Year.

From now on, every New Covent Garden Soup of the Month will be created by soup fans of the nation. Each month a new theme will be unveiled which will inspire people to get creative in the kitchen. Currently the theme is ‘Shape up with Soup’ which is ideal for January.  If you fancy seeing your soup recipe on the shelves then all you need to do is to submit your recipe to the New Covent Garden Website at www.newcoventgarden.com

If you want to try the Michael’s Chicken & Creamed Corn Soup it is currently available in all major supermarkets RRP £2.20

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Sudocrem want to crown their Christmas 2011 superchef

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Sudocrem are running a new competition on their facebook page where you could win a three night stay in one of France’s top cookery schools for two people and £200 toward travel. There are runners up prizes as well. Second prize is£150 Selfridges Christmas hamper and third prize  is a £75 Marks and Spencer hamper.  In order to enter you will need a picture of your best Christmas themed recipe, it can be anything you like as long as it is Christmas related.

So how do you enter?

  1. Create your Christmas recipe then take a picture of the final result. Remember to write it down as you will need the recipe to enter.
  2. Visit the Sudocrem Facebook page which is here: https://www.facebook.com/Sudocrem and click on the Superchef competition tab
  3. Follow the instructions, you need to enter your name, upload the picture of the recipe and enter the recipe instructions in the box provided.
  4. Keep your fingers crossed until the end of the competition. The judging will be done by Aggie MacKenzie so I hope she likes your recipe.

The competition is open between the 7th December 2011 and 4th January 2012 so you have time to get creative.  The winners will be announced on the 5th January 2011.

If you do enter, good luck and I would love to know what your recipe is.

Kodak Christmas Photo Craft Challenge

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I decided to take part in the Christmas Photocrafts contest run by Kodak and Britmums.  The challenge was to create gorgeous Christmas decorations, treasured keepsakes and memorable gifts using your printer. I love a challenge so I tried to think of a way I could use my printer to make a unique Christmas decoration.

I remembered a unique decoration that my son made when he was at nursery that I really treasure and bring out year after year. It’s a lovely holly wreath which is made out of his hand prints.

Look at the little hands, now he is eleven they are much bigger. The problem is that it is the only one I have, once it disintegrates that’s it, it has gone.  I then thought that this would be really easy to do with a printer. All you would need to do is to draw round your child’s hand in a black marker, scan it in and then print out loads. You could colour them on the computer or get your child to decorate them. You can then make the decoration and even better you can print a new one out each year. It’s a great way to preserve a memory.

The other thing I like to do for Christmas is to make personalised place mats for people so they know where they should sit at the dinner table. My son has great fun designing these and usually puts a photo of a special memory and a Christmas border round them as well as the persons name. If you use coloured paper these can look really festive. For example for my son I would use a photos of the different places we visited over the summer and make them into a collage with his name. These are a couple of the photos I would include these two from our trip to Belfast.

This one from our trip to Butlins

and this from our trip to Beamish

along with a nice photo of him. It is a nice way to remember the year while having Christmas dinner.

If you want to take part in the challenge have a look here:

http://www.britmumsblog.com/KodakPrinterProjects/2011/11/take-the-christmas-photocrafts-challenge-xmasphotocraft/

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Sudocrem Competition – Name that moose to win!

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Sudocrem have a new mystery product that will be launching in Spring 2012 and have just created their Twitter and Facebook pages.  To celebrate this they are running a competition for you where you can win £500 worth of Toys R Us vouchers and a personalised Santa sack. All you need to do is to name the mystery products mascot, the Sudocrem Moose.  Here he is:

He’s a very cheerful looking chap and definitely needs a good name. I must admit I am having trouble coming up with a name that is suitable for a moose, but if you can think of one and would like to enter head over to Sudocrem’s facebook page. You can find it here: http://www.facebook.com/SudocremMousse

The competition starts on 18th November 2011 and ends on 17th December 2011. The winner will be drawn on the 21st December 2011 and will receive their prizes shortly after. If you enter, good luck!