Heart Kent: Dockside Outlet Xmas Factor Rules

Xmas Factor 2013 on Heart Kent,
November & December 2013
RULES

1. The following rules (“Rules”) together with Global Radio’s ("Global Radio") general and competition terms and conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”) (which can be found at http://www.heart.co.uk/terms-conditions-competition/) apply to ‘Xmas Factor 2013’ radio competition ("the Competition") which will run from Thursday 14th November to Tuesday 10th December 2013 (“the Duration”).  The "Radio Station" is Heart Kent.

2. Anyone who enters the Competition (an “Entrant”) will be deemed to have understood these Rules along with the Terms and Conditions and will be bound by them.  The Terms and Conditions are available on request from the Radio Station.

Details of the Competition:

3. To enter the Competition an Entrant School must go online to heart.co.uk, register their details and send in a recording of the school choir (MP3 maximum 1 minute) plus a photo of the school and if possible the school logo.

4. Entries can also be sent into Heart Kent via post to: Heart, Radio House, John Wilson Business Park, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 3QX or via email to online@heart.co.uk.

5. Registration for the Xmas Factor 2013 opens at 00.00 on Thursday 14th November 2013 and closes at 23.59 on Sunday 24th November 2013.

6. Once registration closes 10 schools will be selected on merit from all entries and placed online at heart.co.uk alongside a clip of their school choirs audio for the public to vote on from Tuesday 26th November 2013.

7. Voting will be open online from 9am on Tuesday 26th November 2013 and close at 23.59 on Sunday 1st December 2013.

8. The top 10 choirs will be invited to attend the Xmas Factor 2013 final to sing live on stage to the public on Tuesday 10th December 2013.

9. The overall winner of the Xmas Factor will be announced on stage during the final at Dockside Shopping Centre (time tbc).

Eligibility

10. Open to all schools in Kent & Medway with pupils aged between 4 -1 1years old

11. Maximum 40 children per entry and performance.

Prize

12. The Winning choir will receive £1,000 cash, up to 40 cinema tickets to a film screening of the schools choice (transport not included) and a tour of Heart studios in Whitstable (transport not included).

13. Each finalist school will receive a trophy, plus a professional photograph of the choir.

14. The Trophy's will be handed to the ten finalist choirs at the Xmas Factor 2013 final on Tuesday 10th  December 2013.

15. Each of the choirs’ professional photographs will be posted out to the Head Teacher at the choirs’ school or delivered by the Heart Angels.

16. The winning choir will be contacted after the final by Heart to arrange a suitable time for the visit to the Heart studios and to arrange the cinema tickets. (transport is not included in the prize).

17. Global Radio reserves the right to substitute prize.