True Beauty Competition

Hello, and welcome to the blog Eating Disorders Awareness Wales. The main purpose of this blog is to mark Eating Disoders Awareness Week 2008 in Wales, which is between the 23rd and 28th of February. The cross party group on eating disorders, with sponsorship from Dove Self Esteem has launched a competition for members of the public to submit pictures of what they consider to be real beauty in order to challenge the pressures on people to join the size-zero culture that leads many to eating disorders.

On this blog, we will reveal who the judges for the competition will be, and publish blogs from those who have suffered from an eating disorder in Wales, past sufferers, and those who work in the field. You can also upload your pictures on our flickr group page flickr.com/groups/truebeauty_gwirharddwch/

The details of the competition are below. If you have a question the email contact is to the side of this post, or email bethan.jenkins@wales.gov.uk.

There will be an event on the 25th of February at 6pm in the Senedd to reveal the winnnig pictures, so keep that date free!

Good luck with the competition......


Key Dates:

Competition opens on Thursday the 8th of January 2009.
Competition closes on Monday 16th February 2009.
Display will be in the Senedd building on Wednesday 25th February from 10.30am.
Winners will be announced at 6pm in the Senedd building.

Competition details:

Entrants can post a photo (A3 size) with their idea as to what is “true beauty” to Bethan Jenkins AM, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff, CF99 1NA.

Photos can be emailed to truebeauty09@gmail.com or gwirharddwch09@gmail.com.

40 photographs will be selected for display in the exhibition in the Senedd.

The public and a judging panel will select which photos they think best represent “true beauty” in an intriguing, personal and creative way.

There will be a prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd position sponsored by Dove Self Esteem.

Terms & conditions:
each photo should include a person; rights to use 40 exhibited photos in publicity; no responsibility accepted for damage or loss; only 1 submission per person; photo must have been taken in the last 12 months, it may be sent on jpg format or via post to Bethan Jenkins, 75, Briton Ferry Road, Neath, SA11 1AR , person photographed must be 16 or over and consent to the display or other publication of the photographs in connection with this competition. Other than the prizes relating to the competition, no payment will be made either to the photographer or the subject of the photo.