10 Years of ST16, Charity Give-away

SORRY, THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.

At ST16 we like to give something back. Inspired by Precedent Communications recent give away for our own ten year celebrations we’re offering a winning charity the opportunity to work with us for free.

Entering
Entering is simple. Just tell us in 200 words or less…why you and your charity should win. Enter any way you like: Email to charitygiveaway@st16.co.uk or send this form by post to our offices. You must include: your charity name and registered charity number, contact name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number of charity and your 200 word entry.

The Prize
You get to work with award winning digital media agency ST16 who specialise in film and video production. You get £5,000 towards time with our in-house creative team, post-production gurus, complete with production music. If you feel your project needs it, you also get up to 2 days with a professional script-writer courtesy of Ginger Communications.

So what might this package look like? A 60 second graphics sequence perhaps or montage of existing material. Perhaps to open fundraising presentations, post on YouTube or attract volunteers on a web-site. Alternatively you can put it towards something bigger.

The Rules

Rule 1
We want to make the biggest difference possible for our investment. So convince us why you will make best use of this project. We’ll judge this on the cleverness of your ‘pitch’ and how well you’ve communicated your need.

Rule 2
The campaign is open to all registered charities in the UK, however big or small. To enter you MUST have a relevant registered charity status, and be based in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Rule 3
Please only submit one entry per charity. If you send us more than one, we’ll simply look at the first.

Rule 4
It has to be 200 words or less.

Rule 5
There can be only one winner. Sorry.

Other Rules…
You can put this £5,000 towards a bigger project with us, but you can’t have it in cash. No filming, famous voice-overs or performing monkeys are included in this prize, but we can of course supply these things at our discounted charity rates if you think your project needs it. Your project must start within 6 weeks of judges decision.

The Judges

Simon Crofts – Creative Director, ST16
ST16 co-founder Simon heads up the ST16 creative team. Around a staple diet of pot noodle Simon has devised concepts for most of ST16’s award winning output.

Jeremy Stinton – Strategy and Operations Director, ST16
Jeremy founded ST16 with Simon back in 2000. When he’s not running the ST16 and overseeing client’s projects Jeremy can normally be found upside down in a kayak on the river.

Neil Hillman MPSE - Managing Director, The Audio Suite
As one of the UK’s leading TV Sound Designers and dubbing mixers, Neil’s 30 year career in broadcast audio spans everything from prime time broadcast programming like ‘The Antiques Roadshow' and 'Spooks', to feature films such as 'New York I Love You' and 'The 13th Day'. In between motor-cycling and sailing, Neil is currently mixing ‘The Gadget Show’ and ‘Fifth Gear’.

Roger Tidball - Ginger Communications
Roger is a freelance copywriter, experienced in writing across all media but specialising in film and video. He has written storyboards, scripts, voiceovers and titles for more than fifty film, radio and podcast projects in the last four years. In a previous life in corporate marketing communications, he led global brand repositioning programs in international markets.

Legal Stuff
The full term and conditions associated with this competition can be viewed here.

Closing Date
All entries must be received by 5pm on Monday 26th April 2010. Anything received after that won’t get a look in.