UK Competitions Blog

I thought I would do a little blog about the all-time top UK Competitions winners from when we started. Just to give UK Competitions members a little bit of encouragement (although I’m sure you dont really need any) !!! Our members win stuff all the time from luxuries and treats to life-changing cash prizes.

Top UK Competitions winners since 2002 include:

Holiday for 4 adults to Hollywood - January 2002

£2000 Holiday - March 2002

Microsoft Xbox - May 2002

Bosch Dishwasher - July 2002

DVD player - August 2002

£350 mountain bike - March 2003

£2000 Dixon vouchers - May 2003

2 Video phones - June 2003

Holiday in Barbados - February 2004

60Gb iPod photo worth over £300 - March 2004

£100,000,000 - May 2004

50 DVD (BRITISH FILM POLL) FROM HMV.CO.UK - July 2005

£100 - August 2005

42″ plasma TV - October 2005

£500 to spend at Allied Carpets - December 2005

£500 Sainsburys Vouchers - December 2006

There are bound to be additions to our top UK Competitions winners list, and I hope it’s you!!!

To visit our WINNERS BOARD click here!

The UK Competitions Newsletter is a great way to keep up to date about what is happening on the site, the most popular competitions and the newest ones just added.

The UK Competitions Newsletter is sent to all UK Competitions members free every Tuesday each week and includes: the Top 10 competitions, 20 Highlighted competitions which we think you should be aware of and and additional information regarding the site we think you should be aware of.

You can receive the UK Competitions Newsletter in either plain text or HTML, to change your newsletter preferences just log into the site and go to ‘User Options’. You can choose to receive special alerts, our regular newsletter or any communications in any format you choose.

UK Competitions Newsletter - Keep on top of whats happening on the site!

We have had a few support requests from the main UK Competitions site and I thought it might be useful for UK Competitions members to use this blog to let you know the answers to a few of the most popular questions. Here are a few UK Competitions FAQS:

Q. How do I change my member email address?

A. Make sure you are logged in. Click the Home icon and then My Details. Overtype your new email address in the box provided. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select Click Here To Update Your Details.

Q. The email address I selected is Already Registered with UK Competitions, what do I do?

A. You may have tried to join UK Competitions previously and not responded to the Confirmation Email. Please contact us using the Contact Form provided and we will resend this email. (Please ensure that you allow this email through your email filter settings.)

Q. I have been unable to complete registration as I have not had a Confirmation Email. What do I do?

A. This is usually due to registration emails being placed in Junk/Spam email folder in error. Please look in your Junk/Spam email folder for this email, if you cannot locate this email contact us using the Contact Form provided and we will resend the Confirmation Email. (Please ensure that you allow this email through your email filter settings to allow future communications through.)

Q. Are featured competitions valid outside the UK?

A. Please check individual competition Terms and Conditions for further details

Q. I submitted a competition and it is not yet featured on the site. What do I do now?

A. We update our listings every few days so please allow this time to add your competition. Submissions must be suitable and meet all criteria including: free to enter and based in the UK. Unfortunately we cannot respond to all submissions.

Q. Does clicking on the Entered icon actually enter the competitions for me?

A. No. This feature is to indicate which competitions have been entered. To actually enter individual competitions you must visit each competition site using the links provided and follow instructions.

Q. The Entered feature does not change when I click on it. How do I activate the Entered feature?

A. Please click on the Entered icon. Scroll down the resulting page and click on the highlighted text. Follow further instructions to activate this feature.

Q. How will I be notified if I won a competition?

A. Winners will be contacted directly by the site running the competition.

Q. I have followed the link from UK Competitions and I cannot find the competition on the competition Site. Why is this?

A. Please ensure that you have searched thoroughly through the site, the competition may not always be on the front page. Please contact us using our Contact Form should you discover any dead links or closed competitions.

Q. I won a competition featured on UK Competitions and I am not featured on the winner’s board. How can I change this?

A. Please click on the highlighted text in the Winners Board section and fill in the short online form on the resulting page.

We will probably add a section on the main site for UK Competitions FAQS, until then I hope these are useful. More UK Competitions FAQS will added as and when we think it would be of use.

If their are any questions not answered above please Contact Us

There have been some more UK Competitions winners, so I thought I would tell you what they have scooped.

Spiderman 3 Xbox 360 game, Two tickets to the O2 Wireless music Festival London, Champneys wellbeing weight management pack, an Apple i-Pod, Magnifiying Mascara From Rimmel, a makeover, Jack & The Beanstalk game and an Interactive DVD (Return To Mysterious Island).

Hopefully there will be more UK Competitions winners in the near future, and I will run them down to keep you motivated. Remember it could be you, so dont think “I’m not the type of person who wins things” cos next time you could be laughing.

More UK Competitions Winners next month.

View the Winners Board for More UK Competitions Winners

Just a brief reminder for members of UK Comps that they can change all aspects of their member options using the ‘Members Area’.

Simply make sure you are logged into the site at the top right of the screen and click on ‘Member Home’, scroll down to the yellow bar. Here you can ammend your newsletter preferences and competition search preferences to save you time in finding stuff you like. Find out what is new and recommended on the site and find a summary of which competitions you have viewed and entered.

Make the most of UK Competitions by getting email alerts and our great weekly newsletter, you can control any aspect of how and how often we contact you by changing your members options in the ‘Member Home’ area.

Check out the recent winners on the ‘Winners Board’ on the top brown bar.

Member options is also the place to update your email address and change your personal details, simply chanmge your details and click on ‘Click Here To Update Your Details’.

I have just added 3 new competitions which are sure to become hugely popular with UK Competitions members.

Win an Audi A3 car - Prize Draw - In the Wheels Section

Win an GHD MK4 Hair Straighteners - Prize Draw - In the Fashion / Jewellery Section

Win an Las Vegas trip for 2 - Prize Draw - In the Holidays Section

These 3 new competitions are certain to be popular due to the great once in a lifetime prizes, the Las Vegas trip also includes £3,000 spending money! All 3 are free to enter prize draws, just fill in a short one page online form and cross your fingers!!

3 new competitions just added and with more in the pipeline!!!

Win designer sunglasses with UK Competitions!! We have teamed up with Not designer for a great competition, simply enter your email and name and you could win fabulous sunnies that will make you look like a superstar!

If you want win designer sunglasses that are celeb friendly and eye catching you will want to try your luck!! As seen on Brad, Jlo or Paris!!!

The “Win designer sunglasses with UK Competitions” comp runs until 20 June 2007, so what are you waiting for!!

To enter the competition Click Here

UK Competitions has a sister site Free UK Stuff which does for freebies what UK Competitions does for comps. Just a short blog to let UK Competitions members who dont know in on the fun!

If you are interested (and who is not) in getting freebies, free trials, sales, samples, promos, vouchers and other incredible stuff then why not peruse what they have to offer. Visit Free UK Stuff here

Free UK Stuff is another site by the people who made UK Competitions so you know what you are getting: free membership, constant updates to listings and a common sense site layout.

All sorts of companies are offer great stuff so why miss out…Items available on Free UK Stuffinclude: free CDs, free DVDs and free music downloads. These are only a few from the ‘Audio/Video’ section there are dozens of categories to choose from from ‘Rewards’ to ‘Events’.

Just a few UK Competitions facts and figures for you:

• There are nearly 400 individual listings on the main site.

• There are over 130,000 full UK Competitions members.

• The listings are updated daily to reflect the best that the web has to offer.

• UK Competitions is free to join and use.

• Members have access to an additional 170 competitions.

• UK Competitions members was started in 2001.

I hope these UK Competitions facts have shed some light on what we are trying to do with the site.

More UK Competitions facts as and when they occur to me…

Winners for May 2007 include games consoles, luxury beauty products, tickets to see the Who at Wembley, DVDs, CDs and a £500 shopping spree. So well done to them and hopefully you can be in next months round up…

If you are not one of our Winners for May 2007 and fancy your chance have a look at our listings on UK Competitions. Categories include: arts/crafts, beauty, books, cash/vouchers, computer, electrical, fashion, film/tv, food/drink, gadgets, health, holidays, home, miscellaneous, music, pets, short breaks, sports, tickets, toys and cars.

Finally just to congratulate our winners for May 2007 and hopefully there will be a whole lot more to more during the second half of 2007.

Good Luck!!!!!!