Cleaner air at home competition

People in the UK spend most of their time inside, and if the places we spend our time in aren’t healthy or clean then it can change how healthy we are. This includes the air we are breathing.

We are running a competition for primary school children, asking children to pick one message, fact or change that they have discovered that will improve air inside their home. They might want to first have a go at some of our activity worksheets which are packed with facts, tips and snippets of information about what causes poor indoor air quality, where in the home to find these sources and what the health effects are of being exposed to poor air quality. The competition is to create a poster to remind people to make this change.

All submissions must reach us by Friday 4 December.

Who can enter?

Any primary school student based in the UK. A parent or teacher over the age of 18 can submit a primary school student’s design by completing the competition form, including reading and accepting the Terms and conditions. Any adult submitting an entry must be, or obtain the consent from, the child’s parent or guardian before making the submission.

  • Submit your entry (Submission form opens midday 15 October)

What are the rules?

Submissions should be:

  • a poster,
  • landscape or portrait.
  • in an electronic image format

The submission must reach us by 4pm GMT on Friday 4 December

The entries will be judged by a panel of indoor air quality health and built environment scientists.

What are the prizes?

All entries meeting the criteria will be included in our online gallery of entries which will be published on the anniversary of the RCPCH RCP publication of The Inside Story: Health effects of indoor air quality on children and young people.

Winning entries will be developed by our designers and indoor air scientists to form part of an information campaign that will be launched on the 28 January 2021.

With thanks to the generosity of King’s Health Partners, the following prizes are available:

  • Children with highly commended designs will receive a certificate and a Junior Air Quality Scientist pack.
  • Winning designs will receive an Amazon voucher, an Indoor Air Quality Monitor for their class to keep, and Junior Air Quality Scientist packs for their entire class.

If you have any questions about the competition, please contact us.

Terms and conditions

Cleaner air at home competition

University of Reading: competition terms and conditions

  1. The Promoter. The promoter is: the University of Reading, a corporation with charitable status, established by Royal Charter (RC000665), whose administrative offices are at Whiteknights House, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, United Kingdom.
  2. The Competition.
    1. The title of the competition is Cleaner Air at Home Competition.
    2. People in the UK spend most of their time inside, and if the places we spend our time aren’t healthy or clean then it can change how healthy we are. This includes the air we are breathing.  The Indoor Air Quality Working Party are a group of indoor air quality and health experts, hosted by the University of Reading, that work together to advance public understanding, equality of access and experience of healthier indoor air for children and other vulnerable groups within the wider population. The Indoor Air Quality Working Party, acting through the University of Reading, are running this competition for primary school children, asking children to pick one message, fact or change that they have discovered that will improve air inside their home. The competition is to create a poster to remind people to make this change.
    3. You must complete the submission form at www.theinsidestory.health/competition, including the name of your school and classroom, and email your image design to info@theinsidestory.health before the Closing Date.
  3. How to enter.
    1. The competition will run from midday on 8th October 2020 (the “Opening Date”) to 4pm on 4th December (the “Closing Date”) inclusive.
    2. All competition entries must be received by the Promoter via the website www.theinsidestory.health/competition by no later than 4pm on the Closing Date. All competition entries received after the Closing Date are automatically disqualified.
    3. To enter the competition:
  1. You must complete the submission form and email your image to info@theinsidestory.health
  2. You must obtain the consent of your parent or guardian before you submit your entry.
    1. No purchase necessary.
    2. The Promoter will not accept:
  1. responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged or delayed in transit, regardless of cause; or
  2. proof of posting or transmission as proof of receipt of entry to the competition.

 

  1. Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions. It is a condition of entry that these terms and conditions, and any detailed on the submission form, are accepted. Submission of your entry will be taken to mean your acceptance of these terms and conditions.
  2. Judging Panel. The competition entries will be judged by a panel of four judges, including one independent member, who will decide the competition winner. The decision of the panel of judges (acting reasonably) will be final. The Promoter will send the full names of the judges to anyone who writes within one month of the Closing Date requesting details of the judges and who encloses a self-addressed envelope to info@theinsidestory.health.
  3. Eligibility.
    1. Age. The competition is only open to persons who are residents in the UK and are currently attending a Primary School. Employees of the Promoter, and its agents, family members, or anyone else professionally associated with the competition, are not permitted to enter the competition. You must obtain written parental or guardian consent to enter and claim your prize.
    2. In entering the competition, you confirm that you are eligible to do so and eligible to claim the prize you may win. The Promoter may require you to provide proof that you are eligible to enter the competition.
    3. There is a limit of one entry to the competition per person. Joint submissions are not allowed.
    4. Late, illegible, incomplete, defaced or corrupt entries will not be accepted, and entries will not be returned.
    5. The Promoter reserves all rights to disqualify you if your conduct is contrary to the spirit or intention of the prize competition, or if you are otherwise in breach of these terms and conditions.
  4. The Prize.
    1. The prizes for the three winning designs are a £30 Amazon voucher, an Indoor Air Quality Monitor for the winners school classroom and Junior Air Quality Scientist pack each for all members of the winner’s classroom. Each of the three winners will receive all three prizes each.
    2. There will also be certificates and Junior Air Quality Scientist packs available for entrants with highly commended designs.
    3. A prize is not negotiable or transferable, and there is no cash alternative for the prize.
    4. No travel, accommodation or incidental expenses are payable to the winner.
    5. In order to claim the prize you must have completed your submission form online at www.theinsidestory.health/competition and emailed your image to info@theinsidestory.health, and included the name of your school and class in your submission. Winning entrants will be contacted via their school details only.
  5. Determination of Winners.
    1. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
    2. The Promoter will contact the winner personally as soon as practicable after the Closing Date, using the contact details provided with the competition entry.
  6. Details of Winners. The Promoter must either publish or make available information that indicates that a valid award took place. To comply with this obligation the Promoter:
    1. will send the surname and county/country of major prize winners to anyone who emails info@theinsidestory.health within one month after the closing date stated in paragraph 3a above; and
    2. may publish the surname and county/country of major prize winners on the University’s web pages and/or social media accounts (including Twitter).

By entering the competition you agree to us sharing your name and county/country of residence as described as above, unless you have expressly tell us not to do so by contacting us: info@theinsidestory.health. In such circumstances, the Promoter must still provide the information and winning entry to the Advertising Standards Authority on request. Please also see paragraph 13 below which contains further details around how your personal data will be processed.

  1. Claiming the Prize.
    1. The promoter will contact all prize-winning entrants schools and all prizes will be received via your school.
    2. A prize may not be claimed by a third party on your behalf.
    3. The Promoter will make all reasonable efforts to contact the winner. If the winner cannot be contacted or is not available, or has not claimed their prize within thirty (30) days of the Promoter contacting the winning entrants school, the Promoter reserves the right to offer the prize to the next eligible entrant selected from the correct entries that were received before the Closing Date.
    4. The Promoter does not accept any responsibility if you are not able to take up the prize.
  2. Limitation of Liability. Insofar as is permitted by law, the Promoter, its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate the winner(s) or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the prize except where it is caused by the negligence of the Promoter, its agents or distributors or that of their employees. Your statutory rights are not affected.
  3. Ownership of Competition Entries and Intellectual Property Rights.
    1. All entries submitted must be your own original work and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other competition. It is your responsibility to ensure that your entry does not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws.
    2. The Promoter does not claim any rights of ownership in your competition entry.
    3. You agree that the Promoter may, but is not required to, make your entry available on its website www.theinsidestory.com, on the University of Reading’s websites www.reading.ac.uk and any other media and in connection with any publicity of the competition. You agree to grant the Promoter a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence, for the full period of any intellectual property rights in the competition entry and any accompanying materials, to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-licence the competition entry and any accompanying materials for such purposes.
    4. If the Promoter does use you entry as envisaged by paragraph 12c, it will ensure you are fully credited as the author.
  4. Personal Data. Personal data supplied by you during the course of this competition will only be processed by the University:
    1. to assess your entry into the competition;
    2. to check that you meet these terms and conditions;
    3. to administer the competition and to contact you if you are a winner;
    4. to comply with its statutory obligation to publish or make available information that a valid award has taken place (as detailed at paragraph 9 above); and
    5. as set out in the University’s privacy policy and in accordance with all relevant data protection legislation.
  5. General.
    1. If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these terms and conditions, the Promoter may, at its sole discretion, reserve the right to exclude you from participating in the competition.
    2. Events may occur that render the competition itself or the awarding of the prize impossible due to reasons beyond the control of the Promoter and accordingly the Promoter may at its absolute discretion vary or amend the promotion and the entrant agrees that no liability shall attach to the Promoter as a result thereof.
    3. The Promoter reserves the right to hold void, suspend, cancel, or amend the prize competition where it becomes necessary to do so.
    4. If any provision or part-provision of these terms and conditions is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it shall be deemed deleted, but that shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of the terms and conditions.
    5. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by English law, and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.