Final call to enter Brand the Bus! Competition

Good causes have this week left to enter Oxford Bus Company’s Brand the Bus! competition, to be in with a chance to have an electric double decker emblazoned in its branding.

The annual competition offers local good causes and charities the opportunity to have an Oxford Bus Company bus decked out in its branding and radio advertising. People can vote online for their favourite good cause. The deadline to enter is 23.59 on 8th January.

Public voting closes on 2nd February and the 10 entries who receive the most votes will be shortlisted. A final winner will then be selected by a panel of judges. So far 39 good causes have entered and thousands of votes have been cast.

Oxford Bus Company is encouraging more good causes to enter – to be in with a chance to win the advertising package worth £40,000.
Luke Marion, Oxford Bus Company Managing Director, said: “Our Brand the Bus! competition provides vital support for local good causes.

“We’ve had a fantastic response this year and there is still time to enter. I’d encourage local good causes to submit their entries and gain some fantastic brand exposure, even if they have entered previously and not been successful.”

Last year, bereavement charity SeeSaw scooped first prize with Oxford City Angels and Sobell House Hospice the runners up. Other charities that have had buses branded are Girl Guiding Oxfordshire, Home-Start Oxford, Blue Skye-Thinking and Restore.

Brand the Bus launched in 2018 as an extension of the company’s policy of inviting colleagues to internally recommend organisations to support across the year, rather than have one chosen beneficiary.

You can enter the competition here: https://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/view-gallery

Prizes will be awarded to the good causes that, in the panel’s view, meet the brief to the highest standard. The winners will work with Oxford Bus Company to design a bus wrap featuring their organisation’s logo, colours and key messages, as well as a year’s worth of broadcast advertising with Greatest Hits Radio. Two runners-up will win advertising packages worth £2,000 and £1,000 respectively.

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