Post National Pet Month Competition
You’ve put on your National Pet Month event - very many thanks for your support! Now here’s your chance to submit an entry into the post-National Pet Month Competition 2010.
Send us the details explaining:
- what was organised
- how your event promoted the aims of National Pet Month
- who attended
- what funds were collected and which local charities benefited (if yours was a fundraising event)
- any other information that will help convince the National Pet Month trustees that you deserve to win a magnum of champagne!
Include photographs, press coverage, website links and anything else that you think is relevant. As well as an overall winner, there will be Certificates of Merit awarded to each category winner, which will cover the spectrum of people who organise National Pet Month events and activities.
We are particularly keen to know about the funds you have raised this year so we can see how National Pet Month helps animal charities during National Pet Month. To make this easier for you to report, we’ve produced a special form.
Fill in the forms and send them back to National Pet Month with your entry. We will send you back your entry after it has been judged if you would like us to, but we would like to ask if we can use the pictures for publicity purposes, for instance, we may put them on the website to help encourage event holders in the future.
If you can, please send your photographs electronically by e-mail to info@nationalpetmonth.org.uk, on a CD to the NPM address or onto the Flikr website tagged NationalPetMonth (these will then be linked to the National Pet Month website homepage). We are always being asked for high resolution photographs so you could be famous! You could even post a video of your event onto YouTube and send us the link!
We may also like to include a summary of your event on the National Pet Month website blog. Unless you tell us otherwise, we will assume you are happy for us to do this.
The prize will be awarded to the event organiser/s whose event did the best, in the opinion of the National Pet Month Trustees, to further the aims of National Pet Month. ANY event organiser is eligible to enter this competition, for ANY National Pet Month event organised during the Month, big or small. Don’t think we won’t be interested in the smallest event – we will.
There will be a special prize for the top fundraising event, so don’t forget to tell us what you raised, and for whom.
Winners will be notified by post following a meeting of the National Pet Month Trustees after the deadline (date to be confirmed) and runners-up will be sent their certificates.
Arrangements will be made with the overall winner to present their prize. Remember, this will be an opportunity for more publicity for National Pet Month, and because we will involve your local and relevant specialist press, for your surgery, business, authority, charity, youth group or whatever type of organisation you are! Have a look at the photographs and report from Bath Pet Centre, last year’s winner, on the NPM website.
We look forward to hearing from you - and thank you once more for being a part of National Pet Month.
PS Don’t forget National Pet Month needs funds to continue its work! If you haven’t already sent something, we would really appreciate a donation of £20, or 20% of any funds you’ve raised, to help us keep going. Please tell us which other charities have benefited - it’s good to now how National Pet Month can help animal charities and it helps with publicity!
