Terms and conditions: Christmas on the farm 2025 photo competition

Farmers Weekly’s 2025 Christmas on the Farm Photo Gallery Prize Draw Terms and Conditions

Here are the terms and conditions covering photos submitted for Farmers Weekly’s Christmas on the Farm Photo Gallery, which includes the chance to win a Thatchers Cider hamper, including cider and merch, plus a Thatchers hot air balloon ride for 2 people.

  • A picture is considered submitted for the competition if it is loaded into the Christmas on the Farm on the FWi website. You may submit as many images as you like.
  • The competition is open to amateur photographers resident in the UK, aged 18 or over, who live or work in the rural community. You are not excluded from entering the competition if you have previously won photography competitions, had your photography published, or even earned money from the sale of photos.
  • By submitting pictures, you confirm that you took the image(s) yourself and that you own all the copyright and other rights connected with the photograph(s) and that there will be no fees attached to Farmers Weekly using the pictures in any way. Terms and conditions can be read in full here: www.markallengroup.com/terms-and-conditions.
  • The gallery is open for submissions from 1 December 2025 and closes at 11.59pm on 31 December 2025. To be eligible for the prize draw, submitted images must showcase the spirit of Christmas on the Farm.
  • One winning photo will be selected by Farmers Weekly and Thatchers on 2 January. The decision of the judges is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.  The winner will be contacted by Thatchers no later than 30 January to arrange delivery of the prize.
  • You can submit pictures that have been entered for another photography competition or competitions, providing doing so doesn’t contravene the terms and conditions of the other competition or competitions.
  • Farmers Weekly and its affiliated companies and businesses may use and reproduce any of the submitted pictures once or more in the magazine, on the website, or in any other medium or format – both in connection with our Christmas on the Farm Gallery Prize Draw and in any other context.  
  • Thatchers reserve the right to use submitted images in marketing connected with the Christmas on the Farm Gallery Prize Draw across social media.
  • People submitting photographs to Farmers Weekly retain the right to use those photographs again themselves for personal and/or commercial purposes.  
  • Farmers Weekly will not necessarily keep copies of all pictures submitted to the competition, so entrants should keep a copy of any pictures they submit themselves.
  • Farmers Weekly is not responsible for any loss or damage to any photograph that may occur as a result of it being entered for the competition.
  • Farmers Weekly shall not be held responsible for technical errors in telecommunication networks, internet access or otherwise, preventing entry to the competition.
  • Entry is at the photographer’s cost.  
  • Employees of Farmers Weekly, Thatchers and Mark Allen Group – including their families and direct affiliates such as freelancers and contractors – are not eligible for entry.

The competition closes at 11.59pm on 31 December 2025. 

The promoter of the competition is the Mark Allen Group.  

If you have any queries, please email farmersweekly@markallengroup.com  

Good luck.