Creative Comping

Good morning compers!  Well it’s here, the time you have either been waiting for or dreading if you have small children – the Summer Holidays!  The 6 weeks break always comes with mixed emotions for me – I love having my children home, having a break from the routine of school runs and homework, and enjoy getting organised with activities and trips planned.  But, I also struggle to fit in everything else with the children home – work, housework, a bit of sacred “me time”.  How about you, how do the Summer Holidays make you feel?

Hello again compers!  It’s been another crazy busy week here, as it always seems to be towards the end of term.  This week has mainly been sponsored by the phrase “sports day”, as I have been along to not one, not two by THREE different sports days this week!  I wouldn’t mind but I only have two children hehe.  I am very much looking forward to enjoying a cold beverage in the sunshine this weekend, and if you are already thinking the same then J20 might have just the competition for you!

The Discovery Channel UK are celebrating 25 years of broadcasting in Western Europe by launching their MASSIVE Make Your World Bigger competition to win 25 once in a lifetime experiences, as well as other prizes!  They are asking people to submit up to 5 photos or videos, accompanied by a maximum of 25 words explaining how they have made their world bigger.

Head over to Accolade's great comping website ThePrizeFinder and, as well as sections collecting comps into strands like those with prizes for kids and those where you could win cars or other vehicles, you'll find a section on skills comps, including slogan comps.

Though those you'll find on ThePrizeFinder are web-based, slogan comps, like most other types, can be entered in other ways, too. 

Following on from our Blog on Skill competitions, Compers News Editor, Steve Middleton, is answering some of our members questions about Chestnut slogans.

One of our top comping tips is always: ‘The harder it is to enter the competition, the easier it is to win!’  Whenever a little bit of effort is required, more often than not people don't bother entering, or never quite get around to it.