Competitions & Fun
Welcome to the competitions and fun section of the Mature Times website – the voice of our generation! This area of the site is packed with competitions that are free to enter giving you the chance to win all sorts of different goodies on a regular basis.
Books, CD’s or DVD’s, theatre tickets, or holidays - there is always something worth winning on the Mature Times website.
New competitions are being added all the time – if you would like to receive automatic notifications of these, simply go to the registration area of our website, register for free and choose competitions as one of your interests – then you will receive regular updates.
Win a signed copy of Citizen James on DVD
- Monday, 06 February 2012
CARRY ON’S inimitable Sid James is Citizen James in the hilarious 1960s BBC comedy, which finally comes to DVD for the first time. This long-lost classic comedy series makes its DVD debut, featuring the only known surviving episodes, the complete series one, and two episodes each from series two and three. They will be released as a two-disc set on 6 February 2012 courtesy of Acorn Media.
In series one written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton (Hancock, Steptoe & Son), Sid (Sid James) is a hard-working layabout, gambler and con-artist, hanging out on the streets of Soho with his sidekick Bill (Bill Kerr), in Charlie’s Nosh Bar and occasionally paying a visit to his long-suffering fiancée Liz (Liz Fraser), to borrow money to pay off his gambling debts and cons gone wrong.
Schools take time for the Jubilee
- Monday, 06 February 2012
Schools across the West of England are signing up to be part of an inter-generational project that will celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen. The Golden-Oldies Charity was successful in winning funding from the Big Lottery last June for its Jubilee Time After Time Schools Project.
Goldies, as it has become fondly known, brings singing and laughter to people across the West of England and South Wales. The Charity started in Bath four years ago, initially with four singing sessions. This has now grown to over 60 with hundreds attending each week. The sessions are based on the popular hits of the 50s 60s and 70s.
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life In Our Times - win a copy on CD with AudioGo
- Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The Queen’s story is our history: she was not born to be Queen but, a media star since the age of three, she has been the most famous woman in the world for all of our lives.
In this definitive account, acclaimed Royal author Sarah Bradford offers a vivid window into the key moments of British and world history during the Queen’s sixty-year reign, a mixture of happiness and crisis, but one defined by her extraordinary love and commitment to Britain and the Commonwealth.
Win a copy of RSPB Birds - Their Hidden World
- Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Birds hold a universal appeal to men, women and children of all ages, across all sectors of society. Nearly everyone has a bird story to tell from swans on the lake in the park, to blue tits in the garden nest box and woodpeckers on the lawn.
The million strong membership of the RSPB is an impressive testimony to this wide appeal here in the UK. Aimed at readers of all ages and levels of expertise, Peter Holden’s RSPB Birds: Their Hidden World presents 18 bitesized chapters on all areas of bird life and behaviour, from breeding and birdsong to feeding, feather care and flight. Readers will be able to interpret the kind of bird activity and behaviour that they see and hear in their gardens as well as in the wider countryside and on nature reserves.
Local charities team up for a second time to smash the world record for largest Zumba class!
- Monday, 30 January 2012
Local charities Lewis-Manning Hospice and The Wessex Autistic Society have teamed up for the second time for an even bigger and better attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record for largest Zumba class.
October last year saw over 750 charity supporters, Zumba virgins and fitness fanatics dancing to the Latin-inspired calorie burning class, but sadly they didn’t break the record.
So the charities have bounced back with the promise to throw and even bigger and better party - Zumba Smash 2, on Sunday 12th February to break the current record of 2012 participants – and they need your help.
