The search is on for the bonniest babies and sweetest toddler in Bristol and the surrounding area!
This year there's a share of £1000 cash to be won.
Our Top 14 Cute Kids feature in The Bristol Post on Tuesday, April 21 and then it is down to our readers to decide who will win.
The overall winner with the most votes will win £500! Then the runner up in second place will get £300 & the child in 3rd place will get £200.
How to vote
To vote simply collect voting tokens printed daily in the Bristol Post from Tuesday, April 19 until Friday, May 6 7 2022. Voting tokens must not be posted individually, you must post your votes at the end in one batch from one person. We suggest all family and friends voting for a child organise this so one person collects on behalf of everyone and sends them to us in one final batch.
Please attach all voting tokens to a Token Collection Sheet which can be found below and send in complete with a Final Entry Form for your tokens to be accepted.
Please note the new address to send tokens to is:
The Bristol Post Cute Kids Top 14, Reach PLC, One Central Quay, Glasglow, G3 8DA.
Closing date for tokens is 5m on Friday, May 13 2022.
What are the prizes?
1st place - £500
2nd place - £300
3rd place - £200
How is the winner decided?
All entries will be published in the newspaper only & the vote will open for readers to vote for their favourite to win, using newspaper tokens to cut out & collect only; there is no online vote.
The top 40 who have the most votes counted from official newspaper tokens will be published again after the first count.
The vote will then re-open. The overall winner with the most votes (including all votes carried over from the first stage) will win £500! Then the runner up in second place will get £300 & the child in 3rd place will get £200.
Terms and conditions
The Bristol Post is published by Reach Plc, and as such standard, Reach Plc rules apply; visit www.BristolPost.co.uk/rules for details.
By entering this competition the entrant agrees that they have read and understood the terms and conditions associated with Cute Kids and agree to have their child's photograph published in The Bristol Post in print, online or on the Facebook page.
The newspaper deems that the parent or guardian stated when entering has full responsibility for the named child and has given permission for their child to be photographed.
Only one child can appear on each image submitted. Twins or multiple siblings must be entered individually. Editors reserve the right not to publish inappropriate or poor quality pictures.
Images should ideally be in jpeg format, be at least 200 pixels per inch and should be no bigger than 2MB. All photo entries require upload of a recent colour photograph of your child.
Children must not exceed the age of 5 years when their photograph is submitted.
By entering, each entrant acknowledges and warrants that the submitted photograph/image has been taken with the full permission of the subjects (where the subject is a person) and does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity and that no other party has any right, title, claim or interest in the photograph.
Photographs must not contain inappropriate content. Entrants warrant that they own the copyright. Whilst copyright remains with entrants, by entering the competition, each entrant grants a worldwide licence to The Sentinel to feature any or all of the submitted photographs in any of their publications or websites connected with this competition.
Proof of submission is not proof of receipt and entries will not be accepted without full contact details.
All entrants into this promotion must reside within the circulation area of The Sentinel at the time of entry into the competition.
Employees and their families of Reach PLC and anyone professionally connected to the promotion are not eligible to enter nor vote.
Failure of entrants to send in a suitable image or to follow any of the published rules may result in entrants exclusion from the competition.
Local newspaper editor’s decision is final. The Editor reserves the right in their absolute discretion to disqualify any entry, add to or rewrite any rules, or to cancel the whole or part of the promotion at any stage without prior notification.
Publicity may be given to winners and winners’ names and images may be published in the relevant newspaper title in print and online and other website(s) relating to the promotion. Winners must cooperate fully for publicity purposes if so required.
SUPPLEMENT
Photo entries will appear within a Cute Kids supplement planned to publish in The Bristol Post on Wednesday 2nd March 2022. Supplement date may be subject to change. The photo entries will not be published online.
Each photo will appear with the child's first and last name only and will be allocated their own Unique Voting Code, which will be published alongside the child's image.
The newspaper accepts no responsibility for any error, misprint or omission in the printing of an entrant's details or photo. Although every effort will be made to ensure all entrant's photographs are published and are of the highest quality in the event of any unforeseen circumstances where they do not appear, no compensation will be offered. It should be noted that pictures re-produced on newsprint are not of the original quality. The newspaper reserves the right to refuse to print or request a new image in the event that the image provided is not suitable or deemed inappropriate for in-paper and other media use.
No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, delayed or images/videos not fully uploaded. Images submitted which are deemed to be below print quality may be excluded from the competition.
VOTING – First Stage
Readers will be able to vote for their favourite child's photo using voting tokens published in the newspaper from Wednesday 2nd March 2022 until Saturday 26th March 2022.
Full voting instructions will appear in-paper in the published supplement and subsequent published voting coupons. Special voting tokens will be published throughout the voting period which gives the readers access to multiple votes, see your newspaper for details.
Voting tokens may not publish on every publishing day during this period. In the event a Voting token does not appear in paper on any given date due to a misprint and has been publicised in advance (or on the front page of the same newspaper), then the newspaper masthead on the front-page will be accepted as a 20 vote.
Readers may vote for their favourite child's photo using the published in-paper voting tokens as many times as they like, providing they are using original voting tokens as published in the relevant newspaper title; no photocopies will be accepted.
Voting tokens must not be posted individually, you must post your votes at the end in one batch from one person. We suggest all family & friends voting for a child organise this so one person collects on behalf of everyone & sends them to us in one final batch. Any single voting tokens sent individually & not as part of a main final batch will not be counted & will not be accepted. Voting tokens should be posted to the relevant newspaper title address, see voting coupon published for details.
Correct postage should be attached to any voting tokens sent via post in order to guarantee arrival before the closing date. We will not pay any additional postage costs to accept any post sent with the wrong fee.
All votes will require readers to use the 4-digit Cute Kid Unique Voting Code number attributed to each child. Unique Voting Codes can be found in the published Cute Kids supplement and on this promotion channel. Any votes received with an incorrect, missing or illegible unique voting code will not be counted.
The newspaper accepts no responsibility for any votes that do not arrive in time or do not arrive at all for any reason including incorrect postage and these votes will not be counted.
No responsibility is accepted for any votes which are invalid, inaccurate, damaged, lost or mislaid for whatever reason and proof of posting will not be accepted as proof of delivery.
Closing date for all votes is Friday 1st April April 2022. Any votes received after this date will not be counted.
Votes will be counted and verified. No correspondence will be entered into. The total number of votes for each entrant will not be disclosed unless published in the newspaper.
TOP 40
The Top 40 children with the most votes overall from all categories combined will go through to the final round of the competition and will be published in a Top 40 feature on Tuesday 19th April 2022. In the event of more than one child receiving exactly the same number of votes, additional photos may be admitted into the Top 40 feature. We reserve the right to change the number of children who make it through to the final round of the competition.
Final stage voting to determine the winners and the overall winner will be published in The Bristol Post from Tuesday 19th April until Friday 6th May 2022 and this vote will close on Friday 13th May 2022.
The winners will be announced in The newspaper from week commencing 23rd May 2022.
