2025 Raising Minds Photo Competition

2025 RAISING MINDS Photo Competition Terms and Conditions

1. Eligibility

Open to school-age people up to 18 years old. RAISING MINDS employees and their immediate families are ineligible to enter. By submitting an entry, the entrant agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions outlined in this document. Entries with offensive or discriminatory content against any individual or group of people will be ineligible.

2. Entry requirements

Entries for the 2025 RAISING MINDS Photo Competition are open from Monday 4th of August 2025 to Friday 26th of September 2025. Entries must be submitted by midnight on Friday 26th of September 2025. Late entries will not be accepted. Entries must be made through the online submission form at Raising Minds and receipt of entry will be acknowledged to the provided email address of the contestant.

All imagery must have been taken within Queensland and must reflect the theme “My Family and my Mental Health”. A brief statement of up to 500 characters is required to describe the submitted imagery. There is a limit of three photo entries per contestant. Images must not plagiarise the work of any other person.

Photo requirements:

• Entries must be submitted in JPG format with a file package not exceeding 10MB.

• Entries may be colour or black and white digital images.

• Post-processing (e.g. Photoshop and similar software) is permitted on imagery.

• AI generated images are not permitted.

• Only digital files will be accepted.

• All JPG image files are to be titled with the contestant’s name.

3. Judging and prizes

All entries will be judged by a RAISING MINDS appointed panel.
The winning entries will be drawn from a shortlist of finalists determined by the RAISING MINDS panel. Prize money will be divided amongst each of the three winning entries and will be allocated to the contestant named in the entry form as follows:

• First prize - $500

• Second prize - $200

• Third prize - $100

Winners will be notified by email and announced on the RAISING MINDS website and social media accounts.
The judges’ decisions will be deemed final, and appeals will not be considered.

4. Exhibition and usage

An online gallery (on the RAISING MINDS website) will display winning images.
Imagery entered may be used by the RAISING MINDS for business communication collateral.

5. Copyright and moral rights

In submitting an entry, the contestant:

• warrants that they are the owner of all copyright of the image or have obtained all necessary approvals from copyright owners to permit the submission of the imagery to the competition.

• warrants that where necessary the consent of persons appearing in the image including in the case of students/minors the consent of parent/guardian, has been obtained for the use by the RAISING MINDS of the image for the purposes in these terms and conditions.

• grants permission for the imagery to be used for promotional and publicity purposes relating to RAISING MINDS and for the imagery to be promoted through RAISING MINDS social media sites.

Upon submission of an entry to the 2025 RAISING MINDS Photo Competition, the contestant grants the RAISING MINDS the right to:

• maintain a copy of the imagery for archival purposes

• enlarge and adapt the imagery to fit the large-scale format

• publish the imagery on RAISING MINDS’s website and social media platforms

• use the imagery for promotional and publicity purposes relating to promoting Raising Minds.

• display the imagery in public spaces, and

• allow the imagery to be reproduced and/or exhibited by the RAISING MINDS.

This consent is perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable and royalty-free.
While RAISING MINDS will take care to ensure the quality and integrity of the reproduced imagery the contestant acknowledges that enlargements and slight variations to the imagery may result from adapting the original artwork to the large-scale format required for exhibition presentation.

6. Force majeure

If for any reason the competition is not capable of running as planned (including due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of the RAISING MINDS), which corrupts or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this competition, RAISING MINDS reserves the right to take any action that may be available, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the competition. RAISING MINDS reserves the right to disqualify entries from any individual who tampers with, or benefits from tampering with, which as a result corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the competition.

7. Consent

The entrant signing the entry form grants consent to RAISING MINDS to use and retain:

1. the Individual’s name

2. the submitted image; and

3. the copyright material.

Personal contact information provided as part of entry will not be disclosed without consent for any purpose other than in relation to the competition and these terms and conditions unless required by law.
By submitting an entry form the entrant acknowledges that they have been granted permission by the photographer to enter this competition and abide by these terms and conditions.
RAISING MINDS takes no responsibility for circumstances in which it is misled as to the identity or authority of a person to provide consent.
The consent applies to any use of the contestant’s name or image in connection with RAISING MINDS, including for the following purposes:

• promotion and activities relating to the 2025 RAISING MINDS Photo Competition

• public relations, promotion, advertising, media and commercial activities

• use by the media in relation to activities that promote Raising Minds

• use by other organisations, if any, in partnership or association with RAISING MINDS, to promote the profession or the functions of RAISING MINDS

Consent means that RAISING MINDS has permission to use the Individual’s material for the purposes mentioned.
A contestant may revoke this consent by notifying RAISING MINDS in writing.

8. RAISING MINDS use

‘Use’ includes:

• create, make copies of, reproduce, modify, adapt or retain in any form, including by camera, video, or digital recorder, webcam, closed-circuit television, mobile phone or any other device

• distribute, publish or communicate in any form, including but not limited to newsletters and other print media, electronic media, television, social media platforms and the internet; and in whole or in part, and to permit other persons to do so.

The completed material can appear in RAISING MINDS newsletters, RAISING MINDS magazines, RAISING MINDS websites, on RAISING MINDS social media platforms and in other RAISING MINDS publications, as well as in television advertising, videos, brochures, forms, public relations displays, annual reports, press advertising, internal publications. There may also be occasions on which RAISING MINDS may approve the media, such as local newspapers and television, using information and material concerning Individuals.
RAISING MINDS will not pay the Entrant, or an Individual, for giving consent or for the use of the Entrant/Individual’s name, image, or Individual work.

9. Ownership

It is acknowledged that the image submitted may include written work (e.g. stories and poems), paintings, pictures, drawings, made by them or to which they contributed.
RAISING MINDS understands that the contestant owns the intellectual property rights in the image submitted or has permission to use the image, and that consent to use the image for the purposes in these terms and conditions is not meant to transfer ownership.

10. Duration

Consent continues unless revoked in writing to the Chief Executive Officer, RAISING MINDS.
Any revocation of consent will not affect existing contractual obligations entered by RAISING MINDS prior to the consent being revoked.
The revocation of consent will take effect when the RAISING MINDS’s contractual obligations end.

11. General conditions

RAISING MINDS reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time and to cancel or amend the competition and/or the judging process at any time without notice or further recourse to the photographers.
The 2025 RAISING MINDS Photo Competition is conducted, presented and promoted by Raising Minds Ltd (ABN 67 664 578 812).