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E: 10/01 British Gas and Absolute Radio Merchandise Bundle (IG)

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https://www.hellorayo.co.uk/absolute-radio/competitions/win/win-with-british-gas-and-absolute-radio-terms-and-conditions

TERMS AND CONDITIONS for “Absolute Radio – British Gas” (the “Competition”).

These terms should be read with our general competition terms at: http://www.bauerlegal.co.uk/radio-competition-terms.html which also apply to this 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. Competition

1.ENTRY ROUTES AND COSTS

• Online via the Absolute Radio Instagram account, at https://www.instagram.com/absoluteradio

Online entry is free of charge.

Entries are restricted to one entry per person.

Instagram Disclaimer:

This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram. By entering, entrants release Instagram from any responsibility and agree to a complete release of Instagram by each entrant.

2.COMPETITION MECHANIC AND HOW TO WIN

To be eligible to win, entrants must go online to https://www.instagram.com/absoluteradio and find the relevant Instagram story. They will be prompted to answer a question related to the story (Who is Hometime with Bush and Richie’s new show sponsor?), which they must answer by replying to this specific Instagram story as a reply/comment.

All entries will be pooled, and ten (10) winners will be chosen from all correct answers by electronic random draw on 12/01/26.

  1. ENTRY PERIOD Start Date and End Date.

The competition will begin when the story is posted on the Absolute Radio Instagram on 09/01/2026 at 14.00 (Start Date) and will end when the story expires, after 24 hours, on 10/01/2026 at 14:00 (End Date).

The winners will be contacted on 12/01/2026, via Instagram Direct Message.

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

Winner Announcement: The winners will be contacted via Instagram Direct Message. The winner’s name and county will be available on request by emailing win@bauermedia.co.uk during the time the competition round sits within.

  1. ENTRY RESTRICTIONS • Open to UK residents aged 18 years or over on date of entry.

• Our employees (and their family members) or employees of any company involved in the Competition, including any Prize Provider, are not permitted to enter.

• We reserve the right to disqualify any entrant or winner who does not comply with any of the eligibility criteria and/or is in breach of these Terms. We reserve the right to repeat the competition mechanic or any stage of it to draw a winner that fulfils all of the eligibility criteria and is in compliance with these Specific Terms.

• 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

• Use of a false name will result in disqualification

  1. THE PRIZE Prize 1- Social Online Competition

There will be ten (10) winners of the competition, and each will win the following prize package:

Prize Package

• British Gas and Absolute Radio Merchandise Bundle (contents may vary).

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 Specific 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 Specific 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 Specific 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: https://www.bauerlegal.co.uk/competition-general-terms-and-conditions-20190304 for details of our registered office and company number.


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  • Ms_Chocaholic
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    I've had a look at the IG page but can't see the post, has anyone else seen it
    Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
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  • Ms_Chocaholic
    Ms_Chocaholic Posts: 13,204 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I've had a look at the IG page but can't see the post, has anyone else seen it
    @Ms_Chocaholic It’s in the stories section, so when you log into Instagram and are on Absolute Radio Instagram page, click the round Absolute Radio logo and play the reel / stories and reply / comment on the relevant story.

    The answer is British Gas

    Marvellous thanks :)
    Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
    You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time
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