How to Enter:
To be eligible for entry into the prize draw, residents must complete the registration for their garden waste licence via the online form available on our website by 11:59 pm on 16 July 2025. All individuals who successfully apply for their licence using the online form within the specified timeframe will be automatically entered into the draw.
Terms and Conditions:
1. The prize Promotor is Wealden District Council.
2. Participants are deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the following terms and conditions upon entry.
3. The competition is free to enter and open to all residents of the district who have purchased a garden waste licence for a residence within the Wealden District except employees or councillors of Wealden District Council, their families, agents or any third party directly associated with administration of the prize draw.
4. All entries must be received by 11:59 pm on 16 July 2025. Entries received after this date will not be included in the prize draw. Only one entry per person is permitted.
5. By entering this prize draw, an entrant is indicating their agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.
6. Seven winners will be selected by an online random number generator from all the valid entries by 21 July 2025 supervised by the Waste team.
7. The prize will be awarded to the person who paid for the winning subscription. The prize is non-transferrable and cannot be exchanged for cash or other goods and services. Each prize is the value of a single garden waste annual licence fee. Where a winner has paid for multiple bins, only one bin will be refunded.
8. The winner will be notified of the results by email (using the details provided on the licence application form).
9. The prized amount will be refunded to the payment card used by the winner to purchase the garden waste licence as soon as practicable after the draw is completed.
10. The Promotor’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the prize draw will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
11. No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.
12. Any personal data relating to the winner, or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation 2018 and will be processed in accordance with the Promotor’s privacy policy which can be found at: https://www.wealden.gov.uk/transparency-spending-and-performance/data-protection/privacy-policy/
13. The Promotor reserves the right to cancel, void, suspend or amend the prize draw where it becomes necessary to do so. Incomplete, illegible, indecipherable entries will not be valid and deemed void.
14. The Promotor must either publish or make available information that indicates a valid award took place. To comply with this obligation the Promotor will send the surname and county of the winners to anyone who emails: recycling@wealden.gov.uk or writes to: Waste Management (Garden Waste Draw), Wealden District Council, Vicarage Lane, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 2AX (enclosing a self-addressed envelope) within one month after the closing date stated in condition 4.
15. If you object to any, or all, of your surname, county and winning entry being published or made available, please contact the Promotor. In such circumstances, the Promotor must still provide the information and winning entry to the Advertising Standards Authority on request. The winner will be announced and publicised on several documentation and digital platforms, once notified of the win.
16. The prize draw and these terms and conditions will be governed by English law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
17. The Promotor shall have the right, at its sole discretion and at any time, to change or modify these terms and conditions, such change shall be effective immediately upon posting to Wealden’s webpage.