Full Terms and Conditions

  1. The Promoter is Circol ELT, Calmount Park, Calmount Ave, Dublin D12Y050
  2. The *Competition runs from September 15th – November 15th, 2025. Judging will take place during November with winners announced by December 15th, 2025.
  3. The prize consists of Rubber Matting made from End-of-Life tyres worth €20,000 to upgrade your school playground. The prize value of €20,000 must cover all costs associated with the installation or upgrade of your existing playground with rubber matting, including site survey, groundwork, levelling, and installation of rubber matting. The size of the area to be upgraded or installed will depend on the condition of the current playground and the preparatory work that needs to be undertaken as determined by our contractor. There are also 4 runner-up prizes of a €1,000 for a school in each Irish province.
  4. To enter, your school must complete the official entry form on the Circol ELT website. Then use your creativity to tell us or demonstrate why you and your pupils think recycling end of life tyres is a good for your school and community or show us how end of life tyres could be used in your school or community. Your entry can be a project completed by the class, a song, a video, its up to you and your school.
  5. Promotional copy forms part of these rules. 
  6. By entering this competition, entrants agree to be bound by the rules. 
  7. Prizes offered as stated, no alternative cash or otherwise will be offered and no correspondence will be entered into. 
  8. Winners will be selected on the creativity and appropriateness of their entry as well as the understanding of the benefits of using recycled rubber from End-of-Life tyres in innovative materials, how they can be incorporated in everyday life in the school and community and how this benefits the school, its pupils and surrounding community, in the estimation of the judges. The decision of the judges is final, and no correspondence will be entered into. 
  9. You can enter this Competition if you are a Primary School in the Republic of Ireland. Entry is not open to: (i) our employees or their immediate families; or (ii) anyone else professionally connected with this Promotion. Canvasing will disqualify. We may require any information that we consider reasonably necessary to verify your eligibility. 
  10. The promoter reserves the right to validate and verify winning entries 
  11. To redeem your prize, you will be required to provide detailed information, and a full site visit and survey will be required by our contractor to assess the area to be replaced by recycled rubber matting, as well as the existing infrastructure and playground condition.
  12. The promoter cannot be held responsible for delays in delivery of prizes due to availability issues, weather, contractor availability or other issues beyond our control.
  13. We may, at our sole discretion, opt to re-award the prize to a reserve winner selected on the same basis as the winning school, in any of the following circumstances: (i) if you win a prize and we are unable to contact the entrant or Principal via text or email; (ii) if a school wins a prize and fail our verification or eligibility check; (iii) if a school wins a prize and are disqualified for any reason determined by the judges; or (iv) if a school wins a prize and is unable to accept it for any reason. 
  14. We reserve the right to verify all entries including but not limited to verifying address and identity details for the school and may refuse to award a prize or withdraw a prize entitlement where there are reasonable grounds to believe there has been a breach of these terms and conditions or any instructions forming part of this Promotion’s entry requirements or otherwise where a participant has gained unfair advantage in participating in the promotion or won using fraudulent means. The Promoter and judges will be the final arbiter in any decisions, and these will be binding and no correspondence will be entered into concerning this clause. 
  15. We reserve the right to cancel or amend this Promotion and/or vary these conditions in the event of circumstances outside our reasonable control, or otherwise where fraud, abuse, and/or an error (human or computer) affects or could affect the proper operation of this Promotion or the awarding of prizes, and only where circumstances make this unavoidable. In these circumstances, we will always endeavor to minimize the effect on participants to avoid undue disappointment. 
  16. To the fullest extent allowed by law, we will not be liable to you in respect of your inability to enter due to online, internet or website issues 
  17. We will use the personal information we collect from you in order to administer this Promotion.
  18. If you win, you and your school may be required to take part in unpaid publicity in connection with this Promotion. 
  19. For the details of the winner’s full name and county of each Prize, visit circolelt.ie/schoolscompetition. These will be posted once the winners are confirmed.
  20. To the fullest extent permitted by law and excluding death or permanent injury caused because of the Promoter’s negligence, the Promoter accepts no liability for loss or injury because of the Promotion or receipt or misuse of any prize. 
  21. The promoter cannot be held responsible for any defect or fault which may arise with the prize. These will be covered by the manufacturers/installation guarantee. 
  22. These terms and conditions will be interpreted and applied based on Irish law and the courts of Ireland will have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of any dispute. 
  23. No purchase necessary