Hidden Nature Week

Have you got plants on your playground or bees behind your benches? How about creepy crawlies on your climbing frames or beetles in your bike sheds? 

During 14-20 October 2024, children and young people uncovered the wildlife hiding around their school sites by taking part in the Hidden Nature Challenge and had the chance to win some outdoor learning prizes. They made over 4,000 observations of hidden nature throughout the week!

The winners of the giveaway were:

• Coppice Primary School in Essex
• Kings Academy Ringmer in East Sussex
• Westfield Academy in Watford

Have your images displayed at RHS gardens or the Natural History Museum

In the Hidden Nature Challenge activity, children and young people can take photos of their findings. Throughout this year, a selection of images will be chosen to be displayed in RHS Gardens and the Natural History Museum in London for our visitors to see during summer 2025. We’ll be in touch if your images are chosen to go on display! 

Giveaway terms and conditions

Terms and conditions for the Hidden Nature Week 2024 giveaway

1. How to participate

1.1 In order to enter this promotion, your setting needs to:

1.1.1. be registered for the National Education Nature Park programme online by entering your details at https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/user/register and be registered as ‘Staff at a school, college or nursery’ (see https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/choosing-your-registration-type); and also

1.1.2 participate in the Hidden Nature Challenge during the week commencing the 14 October 2024.

You will be automatically entered into the draw if your setting satisfies these two conditions.

You need to be registered as ‘Staff at a school, college or nursery’ because we need entrants to be associated with an education setting with a valid Department for Education URN so that we can cross-reference with the Hidden Nature Challenge to confirm you took part in both and are registered.

1.2 All education settings with a Department for Education URN in England are eligible to enter.

1.3 We will contact all staff associated with the winning setting via the email addresses they provided when registering.

1.4 Entries that do not comply with these terms and conditions will be void and will not be entered into this promotion.

1.5 Your setting can only enter once. Even if multiple staff are registered, and you participate in the Hidden Nature Challenge more than once, only one entry per setting will be counted

2. Start and closing date

This promotion will start at 00:00:01 on 14 October 2024 and end at 23:59:59 on 20 October 2024. Entries received by the promoter after this time will be void and will not be entered into this promotion.

Selection of the winner

The winners of the prize draw will be the first three entrants randomly selected from all entries correctly submitted in accordance with these terms and conditions.

3. Prize

3.1 Each of the three prizes is a Nature Park retail bundle with a retail value of £150.

3.2 There are no alternative prizes.

3.3 The prize is non-transferable and does not include any additional costs and expenses.

4. Restrictions and requirements

4.1 Please note the following restrictions and requirements apply: you must be aged 18 or older in order to enter your setting. You must be an employee of the school which you wish to enter and have all relevant permissions you need to enter the competition. Your education institution must be based in the England and have a UK postal address for receipt of prizes.

4.2 Employees of the promoter and their immediate families are ineligible to enter this promotion.

5. Notification of the results and receipt of the prize

5.1 The promoter will notify the winning setting by email during the week commencing 28 October 2024. If a selected winner does not respond to the notification within 28 days, the prize will be forfeited and the promoter will select an alternative winner from the remaining eligible entries in accordance with the process described above (and that winner will also have 28 days to respond to their notification).

5.2 The winners will receive their prize on or before 20 January 2025.

6. Publicity and personal information

6.1 Please note that your personal information will be used to process your entry, to contact you about your entry, and for the purpose outlined in paragraph 8.2 below. Please see our privacy policy [https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/privacy-policy] for more details regarding how the promoter will use your personal information.

6.2 The name and county of the winning school will be published at [https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/hidden-nature-week] for up to 365 days after the closing date.

6.3 If you do not want your school’s details included on the list of winners referred to above, please email [email protected] prior to the closing date of the promotion.

6.4 You may be asked to participate in publicity relating to this promotion if you are selected as a winner.

7. General

7.1 This promotion is operated by [The Natural History Museum Trading Company Limited (company number 02909192) whose principal office is the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD].

7.2 Entrants hereby grant the promoter a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display pictures submitted for the Hidden Nature Challenge on [https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk], at the promoter’s address and at the Royal Horticultural Society’s premises at [RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate, HG3 1QB; RHS Bridgewater, Worsley, Salford, Greater Manchester, M28 2LJ; RHS Hyde Hall, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 8ET; RHS Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB; RHS Rosemoor, Great Torrington, Devon, EX38 8PH], and entrants shall procure that moral rights in their submissions are not exercised to prevent this use. Further details can be found here: https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/terms-and-conditions.  

7.3 While nothing in these terms and conditions will limit or exclude the promoter’s liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraud, the promoter will not be legally responsible to entrants or winners for any losses that were not foreseeable to the promoter or to the entrant at the time of entry to the promotion or which are caused by a third party.

7.4 The laws of England and Wales apply to these terms and conditions, although if you are resident elsewhere you will retain the benefit of any mandatory protections given to you by the laws of that country.

7.5 Any disputes will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. This means that you can choose whether to bring a claim in the courts of England and Wales or in the courts of another part of the UK in which you live.