The Prizes

English Version | CYMRAEG

A prize is to be awarded to the best dressed person in each of two categories:

i) traditional Welsh (e.g. Welsh shawl, ffedog, traditional hat, or breeches/waistcoat/ collarless shirt or ‘celtic’ traditional: cilt, ysgrepan and siaced)

ii) dress or costume, suitable for “celebrating St David's Day and pride in Wales” – this also includes traditional dress not from Wales e.g. Cornish, Scottish, Punjabi.

The prizes, worth £100 in each category, will be awarded to either a charity registered and/or working in Wales or an educational institution or establishment such as a school or college in Wales, of the winner's choice.

All entries will be considered for either category, unless the entrant specifies which category they are entering.

The judges reserve the right to divide the prize among several winners, at their discretion.

Entering

Entry is by submission of a photograph (no more than two images and no more than one entry per contestant):

• taken of the entrant in costume,
• on March 1st, on the National St David’s Day Parade  Cardiff or at one of the locations it passes (see  route map)

The photograph may be taken by someone other than the entrant, but it is a condition of entry that both the photographer and the subject of the photograph must have given their permission for the photograph to be published, copyright free.

We need to have the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the subject (AND parent or guardian, if under 16) AND the photographer on the back of each print or in the case of e-mails, in the e-mail submitting the image.

Neither prints nor image files can be returned; please do not send the only copy of an original, if you treasure it!

Deadline:

All entries must be received by e-mail or by post no later than 12.00 noon, Monday, March 8th 2010 to the e-mail and/or postal address below.

Send entries to: electronic images,

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or post prints to:
“NSDDP/BDC”, c/o 11 Syr David’s Avenue, Cardiff CF5 1GH

Above politics and petty differences, St David is a peerless, noble figurehead for the Welsh nation, a unifying and benevolent symbol in a dangerous and greedy world.

In the Armes Prydain, an epic written more than a thousand years ago, the poet prophesied that in the future, when all might seem lost to us, the Cymry would unite to follow David as their leader: 'A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant' ..... 'And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi' .