B&Q Social Media – Dulux Prize Draw

Terms & Conditions

1. To enter you must: Send an e-mail with your name and school/workplace to: socialprizedraws@b-and-q.co.uk for your chance to win.

2. Entries can only be made once by each person with one email address. Multiple or third party entries will not be accepted.

3. Under 18 year olds must get permission to enter from a parent or guardian.

4. Entries into the prize can be made between 26th April 2013 and 11:59pm 29^th April 2013 inclusive.  Entries received after this date will not be entered into the draw.

5. This prize draw is open to all residents of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, excluding employees of B&Q plc, their families, agents or anyone else connected with the draw. 

6. There is one prize to be won: Spending 4 hours with the Dulux dog at your school or place of work. The prize is not transferable and there is no cash alternative.

7. The winner will be chosen at random.  B&Q’s decision on all matters relating to the prize draw is final and binding. No correspondence can be entered into.

8. The winner may be required to participate in photo shoots and marketing activities.

9. The winner will be contacted by 17:00- 30^th April 2013. The winner must provide their contact details which will be sent to Dulux to organise the prize.  If the contact details are not received by 17:00- 7^th May 2013, the prize (s) will be offered to the next randomly chosen entrant(s).

10. The dispatch of the prize must be organised between Dulux and the winner to be within 2 months of the prize notification.

11. All entries become the property of B&Q plc. B&Q plc reserves the right to withdraw the draw, terminate the draw or declare void any entry in the event of actual fraud in its sole opinion.

12. No responsibility is accepted for entries that may be lost or delayed in transmission. Entry into the draw is deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions.

13. The Promoter is B&Q Plc, B&Q House, Chestnut Avenue,  Chandler’s Ford, Eastleigh, SO53 3LE

14. By submitting your contact details in connection with your entry you agree that B&Q and its third party service providers may use your details to contact you about your entry.   

15. The winners’ name and county of residence will be available after 30/04.2013 by emailing socialprizedraws@b-and-q.co.uk.

Richard Holden

Richard is a Grill Academy & Airstream Chef and joined Weber in 2012. He joined Weber after working for a London based events company specialising in Olympic
corporate hospitality. Richard has a Cordon Bleu diploma and level 4 Diploma in
Professional Culinary Arts.

Familiar with ‘Grill Culture’ from time spent living in Canada, Richard has honed his
grilling skills and enjoys passing on the knowledge he has gained.

He enjoys touring with the airstream where he demonstrates the versatility of a BBQ and just how underutilised it is in Britain.

For Richard, a real misnomer that most people have about using their barbecue is that it has to be warm, sunny and dry. When roasting, smoking or baking food on your barbecue (gas or charcoal) the results are much more moist than if cooking them inside in your oven. This is because a barbecue draws in damp air, which is then circulated around your food.

Weber Factoid:

Weber grills originate and are designed from Chicago, Illanois where the average Winter snowfall ranges from 9.8 inches (24.9 cm) up to 89.7 in (228 cm) and the average Winter temperature is -18oC. None of our barbecues need to be covered to comply with warranty requirements and are designed to be left outdoors year-round!

Only in stores. Hurry, offer ends Monday, 15th April!

Store Locator: http://bit.ly/msDoGs

* Terms and Conditions:

Cheapest item free. Offer ends Monday 15 April 2013. Not available in conjunction with any other offer.

NEAREST STORE Check diy.com or phone 0845 850 0175 (calls charged at national rate).

OPENING HOURS Most stores Mon-Fri 7am-9pm, Sat 7am-8pm. Sun England and Wales 10am-4pm (where permitted). Scotland 9am-7pm and Northern Ireland 1pm-6pm. Offers exclude TradePoint.

The Buzz.

Here at B&Q, we are supporting Friends of the Earth in calling for a National Bee Action Plan – hoping to make 2013 the year of the bee.

Why bees?

Bees are small, bright, and powerful plant pollinators. Watching them buzz tirelessly from flower to flower is a delightful show of nature.

Vital to healthy crops and wildflowers, bees and other pollinators make up to a third of our daily menu possible. Without them, many of our favourite fruits and vegetables would be harder to find and significantly more expensive.

In fact, alternative ways of pollinating would cost UK farmers over £1.8 billion a year, and overall, bees could be worth up to £440m to the UK economy.

Bees have had a lot of recent excitement for good reason - a startling number of them have mysteriously vanished worldwide. In the last decade, we’ve lost an estimated 30% of the bee population.

Here in the UK 75% of our bees have disappeared in the last 100 years.

Disease, chemicals, and habitat loss are all possible culprits, but so far, research is inconclusive. What we are certain of: bees are drastically declining worldwide, and urgent action is needed.

What we’ve done

As the UK’s No1 garden centre, at B&Q we realise we have an impact, and strive to take responsibility for it.

We are aware of concerns over the potential association of certain neonicotinoids with the decline in the bee population and, whilst there are plenty more steps along the journey, we’ve led by example and withdrawn products containing imidocloprid, a neonicotinoid, from our shelves.

Over the coming months we will be offering a range of help and advice to our gardening customers – from how to build bee cafés and plant bee friendly flowers, to providing bee friendly labels to helping customers maintain a safe environment for bees in their gardens.

What you can do now

In the meantime, LIKE our Facebook post that supports Friends of the Earth’s call for a National Bee Action Plan.

Aiming high, we want – 10,000 likes by April 25^th – think we can do it?

When we reach our goal, we’ll take your likes to Owen Paterson, Secretary of State DEFRA with a call to stakeholders to draw-up a plan in-line with scientific evidence which:

·        Ensures the way we farm our food and plan our towns and cities is good for bees

·        Helps farmers, gardeners and park keepers to reduce use of chemicals that harm bees

·        Protects Britain’s wild and honey bee species and other pollinators

Together, we can do our bit, and call for action.

Want to see more?

Coming soon: Our Verve flowers will host the “Perfect for Pollinators” label, so look out for it when buying your potted plants!

Check out DIY.com/eco for greener gardening tips, and stay tuned for more exciting bee initiatives we are kicking off in the coming months.

Want to do more?

Watch our Insect Hotel video to build your own and entice pollinators to your

garden

Plant these pollen-rich plants to bring buzz to your garden and boost pollination, courtesy of The Royal Horticultural Society

Read up on guerrilla gardening and get seed-bombing! (Pollinators will love you for it.)

Steve Orley has been in the timber industry for 36 years.

Key highlights include….

• Working with a Door Manufacturer for 4 years
• Working as a Timber training officer for 4 years
• He has spent 15 years at Travis Perkins …
• … and is now a month into working for B&Q as our resident expert in Timber & Decking.