The Market Quarter News

Put Your Stamp On It! - Ponty Market's Postcard Competition 

To mark Love Your Local Market Fortnight (16th to the 31st May), Pontypridd Market Quarter and Your Pontypridd Bid invite you to enter a competition capturing the community, culture and personality of our famous market. 

For this competition, open to all, we want you to design a postcard celebrating Ponty Market. You can use any medium; a photograph, a painting, a sketch, as long as it expresses one of the themes below and impresses the judges with your creativity. 

Winners will have their postcard professionally printed and distributed during Love Your Local Market Fortnight. They will also receive a prize voucher to spend in the Market. Two winners will be chosen from each age category. 

Age 8 and under 

Ages 9 - 16 

Age 17 and over 

What are we looking for? 

We are looking for designs that look great and can be printed with on  an A6 Postcard, 14.8 x 10.5 cm (Please note we may need to change the dimensions of your image if it does not fit this ratio). You can submit your entry as a digital image (JPEG) or as a hard copy. 

Your design will reflect one of the four following themes; 

Everyday life in the market 

People in the market 

Favourite spots in the market 

Bought in the market 

The judges will be looking for images that make them smile, entries that show creativity and postcard designs that unequivocally represent Pontypridd Market Quarter. 

How do I enter? 

Entries can be emailed to pontypriddmarketcommunity@gmail.com or hard copies can be posted in our postbox which will be located at Sugar and Spice (toy shop) 

Please include your name, age or age bracket, contact telephone and chosen theme in your email or write it on the back of your hard copy. 

The competition is open until Thursday the 22nd May and winners will be announced that weekend. 

What happens to my design? 

Some of the best designs may be posted on our social media channels or feature in promotion of the market. 

If you are selected as a winner, your design will be printed and distributed to customers at the Market Quarter, during the second week of Love Your Local Market whilst stocks last. These postcards will be limited one per customer. 

The legal bit 

By entering the competition, you agree for your image to be turned into a postcard and distributed with no financial renumeration. You agree that Pontypridd Market Quarter and its associated bodies may share your image. 

You retain the rights to use your image elsewhere or sell to another party. 

Your private information and data will be kept only for the purposes of contacting you if you’ve won and will be safely deleted when no longer required. 

The Market Quarter Pontypridd