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E: 14/10 10am - £10,000 Wickes Gift Card! (Effort / Judged / on air)

https://hellorayo.co.uk/absolute-radio/competitions/win/win-pound10000-to-spend-towards-a-new-kitchen-or-bathroom

It’s time to Rock!
Rocktober has arrived at Absolute Radio!

To celebrate our favourite month, we’ve teamed up with Wickes to give you the chance to make your home rock…

We’re giving away a massive £10,000 Wickes Gift Card!


To enter we want you to channel your inner rock god and create an anthem worthy of Wickes.

Whether you write a ballad about your boring old bathroom or create a kick-!!!!!! banger about your clapped-out kitchen, we want you to pick a famous rock track and then re-write the lyrics all about why you need Wickes.

Enter below, and if your rock anthem gets shortlisted, we could be calling you live on air to belt it out to the nation.

To enter to win, £10,000 to spend at Wickes register and send us your rock song.

Competition is open from 00:01 AM 08/10/2025 (the “Start Time”) to 10:00 AM 14/10/2025 (“End Time”).



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  • Comping_Rich
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    TERMS AND CONDITIONS for “ABSOLUTE RADIO – WIN £10,000 WICKES GIFT CARD TOWARDS YOUR KITCHEN OR BATHROOM (WICKES FIX 4)” (the “Competition”).

    These terms and conditions (the “Specific Terms”) for the Competition should be read alongside our general competition terms and conditions at: http://www.bauerlegal.co.uk/radio-competition-terms.html (the “General Terms”) which will also apply to this Competition. Where there is any conflict between these Specific Terms and the General Terms, the Specific Terms shall prevail. 

    1.Entry ROUTES and Costs

    Entries are restricted to 1 [one] per person (“Entrant”).

    Entry to the Competition is available via the following routes:

    Online at https://hellorayo.co.uk/absolute-radio/competitions/

    Online entry is free of charge.

    This is a shared prize running across the Absolute Radio Network of radio stations.

    2.COMPETITION MECHANIC AND HOW TO WIN

    In total, there will be one (1) winner from a shortlist of entries of the Competition.

    To be eligible to win, entrants must go online to absoluteradio.co.uk and tell us the following details:

    · Full name

    · Contact details including phone number and email address.

    · They must give us a written ode to their kitchen or bathroom, in the style of a Rocktober song taken from the Absolute Radio playlist. The ode should be no less than 80 words and no more than 300.

    The judging will take place in the following way:

    · Entries will be judged by how entertaining, compelling, heart-warming and how deserving the entry is.

    · Entries will also be judged on if they align to appropriate Absolute Radio Rocktober songs as played on Absolute Radio during the month of October.

    · Entries will then be judged by the Dave Berry breakfast show production team, the production manager and an independent judge.

    · The winning entries will then come to air.

    We will be shortlisting from the start time of the competition: 00:01 AM 08/10/2025 until 10:00 AM on 14/10/2025 of the competition online entry period. After shortlisting, we will require the entrants to coherently explain their entry and discuss their nomination. The entry must be compelling and match the entry that was entered online. Being called during the entry period does not mean that the entrant has been successful.

    If the entrant is successful through the shortlist judging process, they will be brought to air as a finalist* during the Absolute Radio Dave Berry Breakfast show between the (“In Play”) dates and time being 06:00 AM to 10:00 AM from 13/04/2025 - 16/04/2025.

    All entrants will be called ahead of the competition segment being pre-recorded or brought to air. If the chosen finalist is unavailable when we call them, a backup finalist will be chosen in their place, and the original finalist may miss out on winning. All participants must be available to take a call between the In Play dates and times.

    We will shortlist entries at the following dates and times, for the on-air broadcast as follows:

    • The 1st batch of shortlisted contestants will be picked at 10am on 09/10/2025 for entry onto the show which will broadcast on 13/10/2025.
    • The 2nd batch of shortlisted contestants will be picked at 12pm on 10/04/2025 for entry onto the show which will broadcast on Tuesday 14/10/2025.
    • The 3rd batch of shortlisted contestants will be picked at 12pm on 13/04/2025 for entry onto the show which will broadcast on Wednesday 15/10/2025.
    • The 4th batch of shortlisted contestants will be picked at 11am on 14/04/2025 for entry onto the show which will broadcast on 16/10/2025.

    Once being selected as a finalist, the entrant will be invited to play the on-air portion of the competition.

    The competition final featuring the top 4 finalists will take place on 17/10/2025 where the winner will be announced. All finalists must be available to take a call between 16/10/2025-17/10/2025. If we cannot make contact with any of the 4 finalists, they will be excluded from the final. 

    The Absolute Radio Team reserve the right to pre-record any part of this competition with contestants before the 'as-live' broadcast.

    Entering online does not guarantee you will be invited to play the game or win the prize.

    All final decisions will rest with the Absolute Radio Production Team.

    3. ENTRY PERIOD 

    Entries must be submitted during the following entry period:

    Online Pre-registration: From 00:01 AM 08/10/2025 (the “Start Time”) to 10:00 AM 14/10/2025 (“End Time”).

    On-air Competition: From 13/10/2025 – 16/10/2025 each morning a finalist will be brought to air during the Dave Berry Breakfast Show between 06:00 – 10:00. The on-air finalists will be given information of when the exact date timings will be ahead of being brought to air.

    Entries received before the Start Time or after the End Time will be invalid.

    Winner Announcement.

    The winner announcements will take place on 17/10/25 during the Absolute Radio Dave Berry Breakfast Show

    The name and the hometown of the winner(s) will be announced on the Absolute Radio Breakfast show each week during the competition period. The online winner details are available by contacting win@bauermedia.co.uk

    4. ENTRY RESTRICTIONS 

    • Open to UK residents aged 18 years or over on date of entry.
    • One entry per person.
    • Our employees (and their family members) or employees of any company involved in the Competition, including any Prize Provider, are not permitted to enter.
    • If you or any other person at your household has won a prize valued at £500 or more on any Bauer brand in the past 6 months, you nor they are not eligible to enter or win this competition. The full list of Bauer Media brands can be found here: https://www.bauermedia.co.uk/brands 

    5. THE PRIZE 

    There will be one (1) winner of this competition and will win:

    Prize Details:

    · £10,000 Wickes Gift Card

    Note: This gift card is only available to spend in Wickes stores across the UK. It is not possible to spend online.

    Use of a false name will result in disqualification.

    1. The Prize is non-transferable, non-refundable and there is no cash alternative. Wickes reserves the right to substitute the Prize with one of equal or greater value at any time.

    2. Any changes to the prize draw will be notified to entrants as soon as possible by Wickes.

    3. Entrants who sign up to the Wickes marketing can opt out at any time. All marketing content which is sent to entrants will have an opt-out link within the content.

     The Prize is provided by Wickes, and we are not responsible for any aspect of the Prize, including unsatisfactory quality or late delivery.

    Prizing may be sent by Wickes up to 28 days after the competition ends, that being from 17/10/2025.

    OTHER CONDITIONS

    1. DATA PROTECTION. Names, email addresses, and /or telephone numbers (which, for all SMS competitions, will be shared with our SMS provider) will be collected and used to process entries. Winner’s details may be given to a Prize Provider to arrange delivery of the prize. Your details may remain stored after the End Date but will not be used for marketing unless you have ticked an opt-in box on entry. For SMS entries you automatically consent to receive marketing. You may opt out at any time by texting the word STOP to the relevant text shortcode number. If you have opted in to receive marketing communications, then your details will be used in accordance with the information given when you ticked the opt-in box and gave your consent. For more details, see: http://www.bauerdatapromise.co.uk/
    1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CONSENTS. By entering this Competition, you are consenting to our use of your entry both to publicise this Competition, our radio station or any other radio station which we own or control. This means that we may use all names, images, descriptions, photographs video footage, and other information, which you have submitted on entry, in any media, without paying you any remuneration therefore and without any time restriction. You also agree that we may film, record or photograph you in connection with the competition and /or the Prize if applicable. We will own these films, recordings or photographs and we may use them publicly, including on the internet, for our radio broadcasts and/or for any promotional purposes. You will also have waived any moral rights or right to payment that you may have had.
    1. MISCELLANEOUS.
    • Entries which do not comply with these Terms or the General Competition Terms and Conditions will not be accepted and any entries may be disqualified if we have any reason to suspect that there is a breach of, or non-compliance with, these Terms.
    • Where a competition mechanic involves the answering of questions, the correct answers to questions must match our answers to win (or be sufficiently close in our sole reasonable opinion) to be acceptable. In the event of any dispute about any answers given and whether they are correct, we reserve the right to amend what we deem a correct answer, however we are not obliged to, and our decision in either case is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
    • We are not responsible if you fail to get through when you call / text to enter, or if you lose signal during a call.
    • You are responsible for all costs of entry and where necessary, obtaining the bill payer’s permission. Please refer to your tariff with your network provider for information about charges you may incur for entry into our competitions via any SMS or phone call entry route.
    • We accept no liability for network, technical or signal errors, issues or failures experienced by entrants when entering the competition or at any stage during the mechanic of the competition.
    • Whilst on-air, you must not make any inappropriate, profane, indecent, harmful or offensive statements. If you do so we reserve the right to take you off-air immediately and disqualify you from the competition. You may be also disqualified from the competition at any time if you are incomprehensible, inaudible or if you appear to be driving, intoxicated or likely to offend listeners. Any prize already won may be withdrawn and re-awarded to another entrant.
    • As far as it is lawful to do so we exclude our liability for any losses suffered in connection with the Competition or any element of the Prize.

    We may cancel, end or suspend the Competition where we are required to do so in circumstances outside our control. We reserve the right to amend these Terms at any stage during the Competition if such amendment is necessary to facilitate the administration of the Competition.

    1. CONTACT DETAILS. Any concerns? Please email: win@bauermedia.co.uk. Correspondence will not be entered into regarding any competition which has closed more than 14 days prior to correspondence being received.

    Bauer Radio Limited is the promoter of this Competition, see: http://www.bauerlegal.co.uk/radio-website-terms.html for details of our registered office and company number.


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    Raffle site = RS 




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