‘Love your community’ photography competition
terms and conditions

1. The promoters are Orbit Group Ltd, (herein after referred to as ‘Orbit’) and is a registered society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 and is an exempt charity and registered with the Regulator of Social Housing.
2. Employees of Orbit or their family members or anyone else connected in any way with the competition or helping to set up the competition shall not be permitted to enter.
3. There is no entry fee and no purchase necessary to enter the competition.
4. Entrants must be a tenant or customer of Orbit over the age of 18 and their name or a family member’s name must be on the tenancy/lease agreement for the property where they live.
5. By submitting a competition entry, the entrant confirms that they have the consent of any people who appear in the photo. Before we award any winning photos, we will require separate photo consent for anyone under the age of 18.
6. To enter the competition, entrants must successfully submit a photo to orbitcustomerhub.org.uk/loveyourcommunitycompetition and confirm that you agree to these terms and conditions
7. You may enter as many photos as you like, however each photo needs to be uploaded separately.
8. The first round of the competition will run from Thursday 15 February 2024 and closes at midnight on Friday 22 March 2024. Additional rounds will run as follows:

• The second round opens on 25 March 2024 and closes at midnight on 21 June 2024
• The third round opens on 24 June 2024 and closes at midnight on 25 October 2024
• The final round opens on 28 November 2024 and closes at midnight on 27 December 2024.

All winners will be notified directly and details published in Orbit Life magazine. The overall winner will be announced in the Winter 2025 edition of Orbit Life magazine on 13 February 2025.

9. After these dates and times no further entries to the competition will be permitted.
10. No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.
11. The winner of each of the four rounds will win a £50 Love2Shop shopping voucher (four winners in total). Those four winners will be put forward for an overall prize of a £250 Love2Shop shopping voucher, which will be announced in the February 2025 edition of Orbit Life magazine. There is no cash equivalent and the prize is not transferrable.
12. The entries will be shortlisted by Orbit’s Customer Communications team who will look at all valid entries received and the final winners will be selected via a judging panel of Engaged Customers through the Your Voice customer Facebook group. Entrants can only win one quarterly prize, before being put forward for the overall competition prize.
13. The promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition and these terms and conditions without notice in the event of a catastrophe, war, civil or military disturbance, act of God or any actual or anticipated breach of any applicable law or regulation or any other event outside of the promoter’s control. Any changes to the competition will be notified to entrants as soon as possible by the promoter.
14. The promoter is not responsible for inaccurate prize details supplied to any entrant by any third party connected with this competition.
15. Prizes are subject to availability and we reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of equivalent value without giving notice.
16. We will notify the winner within 28 days of the closing dates. If the winner cannot be contacted or does not claim the prize within 14 days of notification, we reserve the right to withdraw the prize from the winner and award the prize to a runner up.
17. The promoter will validate the winner and when this has been done, the promoter will mail the prize directly to the winner. The promoter is not responsible for any prizes lost in the post.
18. The promoter’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the competition will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
19. The winner agrees to the use of his/her name and winning photo in any publicity material including Orbit Life magazine, the Orbit Customer Hub website(orbitcustomerhub.org.uk), the Orbit Group website (https://orbitgroup.org.uk/), Orbit social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram and X) and our Your Voice Facebook group for customers. We may also include it in our 2023-24 Group and customer annual reports. Any personal data relating to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation and will not be disclosed to a third party without the entrant’s prior consent.
20. The winner’s names will be available 28 days after closing date by sending a stamped addressed envelope to Orbit Customer Communications team, Garden Court, Binley Business Park, Harry Weston Road, CV3 2SU.
21. By entering the competition, an entrant is indicating his/her agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.