Submit Applications for YouCreate Competition (United Kingdom)

Theme

• This year’s theme for the competition is ‘Dreams’.

Prize Information

• A 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize will be awarded in each of two categories.
  • Year 7-10 Category – for those in Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 (born between 01/09/2009 and 31/08/2013)
    • 1st prize- Apple iPad
    • 2nd prize- £150 Amazon e-voucher
    • 3rd prize- £75 Amazon e-voucher
  • Year 11-13 and FE equivalents Category – for those in Year 10, 11, 12, 13 and FE equivalents (born between 01/09/2006 and 31/08/2009)
    • 1st prize- Apple iPad
    • 2nd prize- £150 Amazon e-voucher
    • 3rd prize- £75 Amazon e-voucher

Eligibility Criteria

• The YouCreate Competition is open to students who are aged 11 to 18 years old, living in the United Kingdom.
• To enter you must be in Years 7-13 or an FE equivalent, and born between 01/09/2006 and 31/08/2013.
• Participants must reside in the United Kingdom.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Employees, students and agencies of the University for the Creative Arts, or their family members, or anyone else connected with the competition, may not enter the competition.

Application Requirements

• They may ask you to provide them with proof of your eligibility to enter the competition and they reserve the right to decide whether or not eligibility criteria have been met. Breach of any of the eligibility criteria may result in your disqualification from the competition.
• Any work entered must be original and must not have been submitted for any other competitions. You must own all the rights in the work including the right to reproduce the work and you must guarantee that no part of your work infringes any third-party copyright.
• When sending in your competition entry you must complete the online entry form providing your name, date of birth, gender, home address including postcode, telephone number, e-mail address, year group and the name of the school college you attend (if applicable).
• If you are under the age of eighteen you must provide the name, email address and telephone number of your parent guardian. By completing the competition entry form, you are confirming that you, as the participant, and your parent guardian (if under 18) understand and agree to the competition terms and conditions. In all communications about your entry, they will email you and your parent guardian.
• By submitting an entry to the competition, you give UCA permission for your entry to be exhibited at UCA premises, to be uploaded on the UCA website and social media pages, and grant UCA, its successors or assignees royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual rights to reproduce and distribute your competition entry, worldwide, in electronic format and hard copy. Your submission to this competition gives UCA the right to use your name, age, year group, school college and town or city of residence for the purposes of identifying you as the author of your entry, and informing your school college if your entry is shortlisted or wins a prize. If you are under 18 you must get consent from your parent guardian for this.
• UCA accepts no responsibility for entries not received for whatever reason.
• UCA will select a panel of a minimum of three judges, at least one of which will not be a university employee. The judges will determine the winners and runners-up from a shortlist of entries selected by the Outreach team.
• In the event of a tied vote for the top-prize(s), a final winner will be chosen at the discretion of the Outreach Manager.
• Shortlisted entries will be displayed at a UCA Campus for an exhibition (this may be hosted online if institution and government guidance advises against in-person events at the time). Selected work may be published in an exhibition guide celebrating the entries, either in printed or online format. The winner and runners up will be announced at the exhibition and further confirmed by email. The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
• UCA reserves the right to appoint new substitute judges at different stages of the competition for reasons outside its reasonable control (including, but not limited to, in the case of illness, unavoidable absence or conflict of interest of any of the judges).

For more information, visit UCA.