The Gower Walking Festival

takes place each year in June

Click here to view the 2010 brochure

The 2010 Festival was completed in glorious weather.

Did you take part? If so we would like to hear from you with your comments and suggestions.

The 2010 Festival was the biggest yet. Organised by the Mumbles Tourist Association, the voluntary management body of the Mumbles Tourist Information Centre, the Festival’s continuing popularity means that there were 55 guided walks on the programme, spread out over seventeen days, around glorious Gower, Mumbles and other local settings.

The Gower Peninsula was the first in Britain to be designated an Area of Outstanding National Beauty in 1956, and the Festival is designed to cover as much of it as possible, as well as provide walks with added interest, such as Birds, Bats, Photography, Nordic Walking and History Walks. If you are visiting Wales, and like walking, you mustn’t miss it. The date for next year's event have already been finalised

Saturday 4th June until Sunday 19th June 2011

The brochure – in English – will give details of all walks, and will be available to download on our website from January 2011.  If you’d like us to email you when it is available, or if you’d prefer us to post a copy to you, please click on iinfo@mumblestic.co.uk and enter your details. The Mumbles TIC can also help arrange accommodation in the area for your visit.

Remember to take your camera with you not only for great photos to remember your walk but also to enter the 2011 PHOTO COMPETITION. Next year there will be:

Two Categories:

Photographs with Walkers in the picture,

And

Photographs of Scenery

2010 winners will be presented with a prize of their picture enlarged and framed kindly donated by:

gpsdesignandprint

www.gpsswansea.co.uk

Below are the details of how you could have entered this year and will probably be much the same next year, but watch this space!

How to Enter:

Please send your digital photograph in an email, by 30

June 2010 to info@mumblestic.co.uk with ‘Photography Competition’ in the subject box, OR copy it onto a disc and mail it to us (NB: we cannot return the disc). 

Tell us your:

Name:

Address:

Email address:

And, which walk you took the picture on, with, if possible, the location of the shot.

Entries are limited to two digital photographs in each category per person. Full terms and conditions below

Terms and Conditions

1. Entries will be accepted from the end of the day of the first walk, on 5 June 2010, until 30 June 2010.2. Closing date for entries is noon Wednesday 30 June 2010

3. Unless otherwise stated, the competition is open to anybody who took part in one or more walks during the 2010 Gower Walking Festival (5 – 21 June 2010)

4. Entry is limited to two digital photographs per person per Festival, even if they participated in more than one walk.

5. Entry is free but entrants should be aware that they may be subject to local call charges depending on their own individual arrangements for Internet access. No purchase necessary.

6. An eligible entrant must be an individual and must submit an entry in the form provided by Mumbles TIC under this promotion including their name, address and e-mail address, if entering on line.

7. By entering, all eligible entrants agree to abide by each and all these terms and conditions. Mumbles TIC reserves the right, with or without cause, to exclude entrants and withhold prizes for violating any of these terms and conditions. Mumbles TIC reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions. Any amendments will be published on the Website.

8. Each entrant must submit a maximum of two photographs in jpeg format with an explanation detailing when, and on which walk the photograph was taken together with their name, and email address.  Entrants represent and warrant that they are not professional photographers and that their entry does not infringe the privacy rights, copyright or any other rights of any person. Obscene or inappropriate photographs will not be accepted and Mumbles TIC reserves the right to reject any photographs for any reason. Prior to submitting a photograph of any identifiable individual, entrants should obtain the consent of such person and advise them of the purpose of the submission and that their photograph may be used in Mumbles TIC literature and promotions.

9. The winner will be notified by email within 21 (twenty-one) days from the closing date. All reasonable endeavours will be made to contact the winner during this time. If a winner cannot be contacted or is not available, Mumbles TIC reserves the right to choose  another winner. 

10. There will be 2 prizes. The winners will be the entrants whose photographs, in the opinion of the judges, demonstrates the greatest flair, technique and originality.

11. The winners will receive a professionally enlarged framed print of her or his photograph provided by gps design and print (www.gpsswansea.co.uk) The prizes are not transferable and no alternatives will be offered.

12. There is no cash or other alternative to the prizes stated and the prize is not transferable and no part or parts of the prize may be substituted for other benefits, items or additions.

13. The winners may be required to submit valid identification before receiving their prize.

14. The judge's decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.

16. Mumbles TIC will not be liable for technical, hardware, or software failures of any kind or lost or unavailable network connections which may limit or prohibit an eligible entrant's ability to participate in the competition. Other than death or personal injury arising from the acts or omissions of Mumbles TIC, or their employees, Mumbles TIC will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of the winner enjoyment of the prize

17. The winner agrees to allow the free use of their names, photographs and general locations for publicity and news purposes during this and future promotions by Mumbles TIC.

18. Mumbles TIC reserves the right to publish all or parts of entries other than the winning entry, and publication does not necessarily mean that the entrant has won a prize. Mumbles TIC reserves the right to edit entries in its discretion for publication. Entrants will retain copyright in their submitted entries; however, by entering, all entrants give Mumbles TIC a worldwide royalty free perpetual licence to edit, publish and use all or segments of each entry in any and all media (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes. In particular, all entrants license Mumbles TIC the right to print their entry on thetimes online and in print.

19. Uses of personal data received by Mumbles TIC in the course of the promotion are subject to the privacy policy. Winners' names may be published on the Website.

20. Completion and submission of a registration slip or e-mail will be deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions.

21. Mumbles TIC reserves the right at any time to cancel, modify or supersede the competition (including altering prizes) if, in their sole discretion, a competition is not capable for being conducted as specified. Mumbles TIC reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal value in the event that circumstances beyond their control make this unavoidable.

For more information call 01792 361302

And the winner is............

2009 saw the introduction of a photographic competition where walkers were asked to submit a photo taken on one of the walks. The winner was Mrs Debbie Thomas of Waunarlywdd Swansea.  Her winning entry, chosen by the judges Photographers Bartlett & Morgan of Newton Road, Mumbles, who also kindly donated the prize, is shown above entitled "Gower Ponies" and below a picture of her receiving her prize from the photographers.

Some of the entries for the Gower Walking Festival 2009 photo competition. Thank you to everyone who took the trouble to send us their entry.