The The Cheshire Cat Pubs Photo Competition is now open for entries. Our theme is ‘makingmemoriesatthepub’ which you can interpret anyway you like. As long as your photo captures the essence of the pub and what that means to you, you’ll be entered.
Owners Tim Bird and Mary McLaughlin will be choosing their favourite from the entries.
The winner will be given a £250 gift card to be used across any of our pubs and inns on food, drink, rooms, and retail items.
Two runners up will receive a special bottle of wine as selected by ‘Wine Man’ Tim Bird.
The winners, along with up to 14 other photo entries will be printed, framed, and displayed across the pubs.
Now we need your photos!
How to enter the competition:
- You enter by uploading your digital photo to Facebook or Instagram and using the hashtag #makingmemoriesatthepub and tagging @cheshirecatpubsandinns.
- Only photos that have both tagged us AND used the hashtag will be entered. You can write whatever you like in your caption, which can be unrelated to the competition, but you must tag us and use the hashtag to be entered. You text will not be displayed alongside your entry if you win or are re-shared.
- We will accept entries in both landscape and portrait format.
- The photo must be of one of our 7 pubs and inns (The Roebuck Inn, The Bull’s Head, The Church Inn, The Three Greyhounds Inn, The Cholmondeley Arms, The Fitzherbert Arms, and The Mainwaring Arms). It can be taken of the inside or outside of the pub.
- You can enter as many You can enter more than once over the period, but only one photo can be entered at a time (up to a maximum of one entry per day).
- Your photos can have people in them, but the person in the photo must be happy for their image to be shared across our social platforms, websites, and printed and displayed in the pubs. You must ask permission from the person before you enter.
- Please note that we must be able to view your photo for your entry to be valid (so you won’t be able to enter if your account is set to ‘private’.)
Entries will be accepted until 11pm on Friday 29th November and the winner will be chosen and notified after this date.
General Rules
- The winner will be chosen by Tim and Mary as a photo they feel really captures the essence of the pub.
- The competition will have one overall winner who will receive the prize of a £250 gift card to use across the pubs.
- Two runners up will receive a special bottle of wine from our Roebuck Inn shop, as chosen by Tim.
- The top fourteen photos will be printed and displayed across the pubs (two per pub).
- The competition is open to amateurs and professionals, and your photos can be taken on a phone or camera.
- Entrants must ask permission before taking photographs with any person in them.
- Photographs entered must be taken of or in one of our 7 pubs and inns.
- We can only accept entries via social media that meet the entry criteria listed above
- You can enter images that have been edited as follows: Images that have had spots, scratches or other blemishes removed, edited the colour or enhanced the image, or been cropped. We will not accept the use of AI during the creation, design or development of the images.
- The competition is open to UK residents only.
- Entrants can be professional photographers, however the photo must have been captured purely for the reason of entering this competition and not as part of a paid photoshoot.
- Photos cannot have been taken more than 12 months ago.
- We will be resharing the images throughout and following the competition period. If your photo is shared this doesn’t mean you will be selected as winner, and will not affect your entry to the final judging.
- By entering you give us the right to share your images across any of our social platforms.
If you have any other questions please email us at any of our pubs, or contact us on any of our social platforms.