Nursery News cover competition

Want to feature on our Nursery News magazine front cover in spring 2025? 

We are looking for photo competition entries to feature on the front cover of Nursery News, your membership magazine, spring 2025 edition.

This will be to promote and celebrate our Healthy Body Happy Me campaign which runs at the end of March 2025. This year’s theme is Busy Bodies so we would like to receive photo entries that show children doing activities together to be healthy and happy.

Theme

Some of the activities in the campaign are about:

• Building muscles
• Planting and growing food
• Twisting and dancing
• Balancing
• Climbing and rolling.

Please ensure

• The photo features at least two children (it can include at least one adult too but it’s not essential)
• The photo is high-resolution
• The photo is portrait orientation
• Activities with children are always risk-assessed
• Children have adequate supervision
• Resources and materials are appropriate for children’s age and stage of development.

How to enter

Entering is easy, just three simple steps:

• Download a permission form below
• Complete permission form(s) for each child from their parent or carer, and each member of staff involved who is featured in the photo(s)
• Upload your photo(s) of children participating in an activity featured in the theme list above, plus your permission form(s) using the form below.

If the photo is larger than 16mb please send it via www.wetransfer.com to [email protected] with your permission form(s), membership number and nursery name.

See T&Cs here.

Deadline: Friday 31 January

Where your photo will feature

We hope to publish as many entries as possible on our website and on social media as well as the winning photo on the front cover of Nursery News spring edition 2025.

We look forward to seeing your wonderful photos! 

File too big or prefer to email?

Please feel free to email single photos and permission forms to [email protected] or use WeTransfer to send multiple photos.

Terms & conditions

NDNA is running a competition for UK nurseries to feature a photo on the front cover of Nursery News spring 2025. 
 
 The competition is available to enter from 1 December 2024 – 31 January 2025.

• We reserve the right to extend the closing date 
• Open to UK residents only 
• Entries are open to NDNA member nurseries only 
• One NDNA member nursery’s image will be selected from all valid entries 
• A valid entry is any photo or photos from an NDNA member nursery which provide contact details and relevant permission forms 
• Nurseries can enter multiple times for increased chances of winning 
• Winners will be contacted by telephone or email by 10 February 2025 
• If for any reason the winners cannot be reached in a reasonable amount of time, NDNA reserves the right to choose another winner 
• NDNA reserves the right to crop and/or edit the winning image to suit the Nursery News cover format
• The winner will have their winning photo on the front cover of Nursery News spring 2025 edition
• The prize is not transferable and there is no cash alternative 
• The winning nursery must be prepared to take part in publicity as reasonably requested by National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) 
• Our decision is final 
• Contact details provided will not be shared with any other organisation outside of NDNA, other than the winning nursery which will be passed on to the supplier.