Register
Once you have registered your interest in our children’s portrait competition, we will give you a call to explain the whole process and book your session with us. Before you register for your superstar wannabe models to have their photoshoot with us, here’s a little bit more information for you.
When do our children photoshoots happen?
Please note sessions for our North East Children’s Portrait Competition will take place on various days. If children are not at school we try to arrange their shoot on weekdays which means we can welcome older children in on a weekend. During the school holidays we try to fit in around whatever you have planned.
We'll call you
We will first of all ring you once you have registered to discuss the best time for you to come into our studio. We work weekends and can work round what day and time is best for you. We are totally flexible but we do get booked up very quickly.
Meeting your children
Once you have arrived and I have met your children and have had a nice relaxing chat with them, time they get changed or straighten their hat! once I’m sure you children are relaxed, and happy, we will start our photoshoot. Sometimes children can be shy, and we may have to give instructions on how to stand, but we will always try our very best to put them at ease.
Select your image
After your photoshoot we will look at all the images taken together, we will select your favorite images to keep and you can choose your favorite image of your children to enter into the North East Children’s Portrait Competition.
Happy and relaxed is our aim for you and your children
We want to give you a fantastic set of images and as much choice as we possibly can for you to choose from, so I always try and set up as many different poses with & without props as we can, sometimes a change of outfit or including a teddy bear makes a lovely change, we know sometimes kids are shy so having their own teddy or doll sometimes just brings them out of their shyness.
Your children’s welfare is always our number one priority, and would never force a child to have their photograph taken if they don’t want to.
Your children’s welfare is always our number one priority.
Where can you view your entered image?
All entries for the competition are added to the North East children’s Portrait Competition folder on our Facebook page at the end of each month. Please feel free to tag yourself into your childrens image and share it with your friends and family. The more you share you image, the more our competition is seen by more people which could result in your other family or friends children wanting to take part.
When does the competition close and who is it judged by?
The competition closes for all entries on the 23rd December 2024. The competition will be judged by representatives from The Charlie & Carter Cookson Foundation.
Ready to register?
Please read the full terms and conditions of entering below, and then complete the registration form and we will add you to our calls list to ring you to book you in with your family. Please note it will either be Tracey, Michelle or Judith who calls you.
How much we’ve raised so far this year
Terms and Conditions
- Our Competition is open for Children Only.
- One £10 Shoot covers one child. Multiple children can take part but its £10 per child to enter the competition where 100% is donated to Charlie & Carter Cookson Foundation and 4Louis.
- Competition is open from the 1st January 2024 until 23rd December 2024 for all entries. (Please note we need the full 12 months to allow us time to hit our £1000 target.
- Please note to book your session you will be asked to pay a £25 booking fee to secure you session in our studio, your £10 donation will be deducted from your £25 booking-fee and on the day of your shoot you will be refunded the difference, however if you fail to arrive then your booking- fee will become non-refundable, if you cancel your session your booking fee is non-refundable. We are giving our time free of charge to raise funds for these fantastic charities.
- The competition is open to portraits of children only and the image must be taken by Village Photography.
- Customers must choose their favourite image to enter the Children’s Portrait Competition. We can help you choose an image but we cannot be held responsible if our independent judges don’t choose your entry as their winner.
- Customers are encouraged to share with their friends & families their chosen image. Images will be loaded up onto our Facebook page on the last day of each month, but please bear with us at during busy times it may take us a little longer.
- All entries will be judged by Charlie & Carter Cookson Foundation Team and 4Louis who will choose 1st, 2nd & 3rd from all of Village Photography’s entries.
- The Prizes are as stated below and no other alternatives will be offered. The prizes are not transferable.
- 1st prize is £100 cash prize
- 2nd prize is £75 cash prize
- 3rd prize is £50 cash prize
- All winners and results will be with me by 31st January 2025. (subject to change). Winners will be notified by telephone, once prizes are available to be handed over, winners have 6 weeks to collect their prize.
- All winners will be invited back to our studio to collect their prize and will be asked to have a photograph taken accepting their prize. These photographs will be displayed on our website, social media platforms and forms of advertising for next year’s competition.
- By entering this competition, all entrants agree to the use of their names and images being used on any of our websites, social media platforms, display brochures, literature, studio displays and any other form of advertising Village Photography deem acceptable. We will never pass your details onto any Third Party Companies.
- The judge’s decision is final and we have no involvement in the judging of the North East Children’s Portrait Competition.
- We will display the 3 winners from Village Photography’s competition once we have the results.
- You can enter more than one image, but it is £10 per entry per image.
- The reason we have chosen to support Charlie & Carter Cookson Foundation and 4Louis, is due to the long association we had with these charities.
If you would like to register please click here to register your interest in North East Children’s Portrait Competition
Enter the competition here
Please read the full terms and conditions before entering the competition. We will add you to our calls list to ring you to book you in when we receive your entry.
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