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Walton's Playhouse Design Competition

As part of our involvement in the community and interest in the input of our customers, we are launching our Children's Playhouse Design Competition 2010. If you have an idea for a children's playhouse, write down some notes or draw some sketches detailing what makes your playhouse stand out from the crowd. The lucky winner will have their children's playhouse made by our team at Walton’s and we’ll have it delivered to you all for FREE* and in time for Christmas!

The playhouse will need to be based around the following measurements:

  • Maximum width – 1.830 meters
  • Maximum length – 2.45 meters
  • Maximum height - 2.5 meters

Using the following materials:

  • 12mm thick pine wood cladding
  • Pine wood framing
  • 9mm thick ply wood
  • Solid Sheet Wood Materials 10mm & 8mm thick
  • Styrene glazing

You will also be required to send us a 100 word introduction about your design, a list of features your playhouse has and a drawing or diagram depicting your design.

Entrants are required to send their ideas in the following formats: PDF, JPEG or Paper (for hand drawings)

The closing date for our Playhouse Design Competition has now passed. Many thanks to all of you who submitted entries. We are currently reviewing each and every design and a winner will be announced in the near future.

Free* Relates to Postcodes within UK mainland. This excludes the Highlands and Islands of Scotland

Shed Design Competition Winner

Thank you to all of you who submitted shed designs for consideration. We received a number of well designed entries, which meant us extending the competition until the end of April 2010.

Congratulations to Carmel Cannon of Beverley whose Tudor Craft Shed caught the eye of our judges. We will be building Carmel's winning design in the coming weeks and delivering it to her. Check out the winning design in our article "Walton’s Shed Design Competition Winner Announced", or keep an eye on the Shed Design Competition page for photos once the winning shed design has been built and delivered!

Runners Up

Congratulations also to the two shed design competition runners up, Helen Clifford and Doreen Mulroy who will both be receiving vouchers.

  1. The Company is continuously engaged in active design and development programs which may have ideas, features, or other aspects that are similar or identical to the ideas, features, or other aspects of the Design.
  2. Other persons, including the Company's own employees, may have submitted to the Company or to others, or may in the future originate and submit, Design which is similar or identical to the Design. It is agreed that no compensation will be paid to the Submitter for use of the Design because of the Company's use of such other similar or identical Design not created by the Submitter.
  3. Submitter agrees that the Company assumes no obligation to (i) return the Design submitted, (ii) compensate the Submitter in any way for the non-commercial use of the Design in accordance with the evaluation specified herein, (iii) proceed with negotiations of any kind respecting the Design, or (iv) furnish Submitter with any information respecting the results of the Company's evaluation or its reasons for not proceeding further.
  4. Inasmuch as the disclosure to the Company of information that is considered by Submitter or a third party to be confidential could have an adverse impact on the Company's rights in products or ideas arising out of the Company's design and development program, the Company is not interested in gaining access to information that is considered by Submitter or a third party to be confidential. In order to ensure that there is no future misunderstanding of the respective rights of the Company and Submitter, the Company has developed a policy under which it will not undertake to review or evaluate ideas that we claimed to be confidential by any person or entity outside the Company.
  5. Submitter has retained at least one copy of the Design, and releases the Company from any and all liability for loss of or damage to the copy or copies of the Design submitted to the Company here under.
  6. Submitter represents that the Design is original to Submitter, that Submitter is the owner of the Design, that Submitter has the exclusive right to submit the Design to the Company, and that Submitter has the power and authority to grant the Company any and all rights in the Design.
  7. Submitter agrees that Submitter will not use the potential interest of the Company with respect to any Design submitted to the Company in any promotional activity nor disclose to any other person that the Company is evaluating the Design.
  8. Submitter hereby acknowledges and agrees that there are no prior or contemporaneous oral or written agreements in effect between Submitter and the Company pertaining to the Design submitted hereunder or any other Design (including, but not limited to, agreements pertaining to the submission by Submitter of any ideas, formats, plots, characters or the like). Submitter further agrees that no other obligations exist or shall exist or shall be deemed to exist unless and until a formal written agreement has been prepared and executed by both Submitter and the Company, and then Submitter's rights and obligations, and the Company's rights and obligations, shall be only such as are expressly set forth in such formal written agreement.
  9. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as creating any obligation or an expectation on the part of either party to enter into a business relationship with the other party, or an obligation to refrain from entering into a business relationship with any third party. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as creating a joint venture, partnership or employment relationship between the Company and Submitter, it being understood that the Company and Submitter are independent contractors vis-à-vis one another. Except as specified herein, no party shall have the right, power or implied authority to create any obligation or duty, express or implied, on behalf of any other party hereto.
  10. Submitter agrees that the terms of this document shall control the rights and obligations of the Company and Submitter respecting the Design, however disclosed or provided to the Company, including verbal disclosure thereof, and notwithstanding any legends, markings, or other restrictions embodied in, attached to, or accompanying such Design. The terms of this document may not be amended or superseded except by written amendment that refers to this document and is signed by both parties.
  11. In the event that the Company decides to use the shed Submitters Design, the Submitter shall forthwith be deemed to have assigned to the Company the Copyright, Design Rights and all other Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Design to the intent and purpose that Company shall be the sole and absolute owner there of.
  12. Submitter agrees that no oral representations of any kind have been made to Submitter.
  13. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all other oral or written representations and understandings. The formation, interpretation and performance of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales. In the event that any provision hereof is found invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable according to its terms.
  14. Submitter certifies that Submitter has read this Agreement and that Submitter understands it.