Brand the Bus Competition 2025

The 2025 'Brand the Bus!' winner is here!

• ONE EIGHTY CHARITY TAKES AWAY THE RECORD-SETTING £100,000 PRIZE!
• HELEN & DOUGLAS HOUSE AND SOBELL HOUSE HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AS THE RUNNERS-UP
• OVER 12,000 VOTES

One Eighty Charity Wins "Brand the Bus! 2025" with Record £100,000 Advertising Package!

One Eighty Charity has been crowned the triumphant winner of the 2025 "Brand the Bus!" competition, securing a record-setting £100,000 advertising package!

This year's hotly contested competition, supported by partners Get Radio and Oxford City Football Club, aimed to increase the impact of local good causes significantly. The public showed overwhelming support with over 12,000 votes cast.

The extensive £100,000 prize package awarded to One Eighty Charity includes:

• A year-long, full-wrap advertisement on one of Oxford Bus Company's double-decker buses, ensuring prominent brand visibility across Oxfordshire.
• Free advertising onboard Oxford Bus Company and Thames Travel vehicles.
• Radio advertising on Get Radio, Oxfordshire's local radio station.
• The prestigious honour of being named Oxford City Football Club's charity of choice for the 2025 season.

Helen and Douglas House was chosen as Brand the Bus 2025’s first runner-up and will receive a bus rear advertisement, on-bus advertising package and advertising with Get Radio, valued at more than £20,000.

The charity provides palliative, respite, end-of-life and bereavement care to life-limited children and their families and was the world’s first hospice built specifically for children.

Sobell House will receive the second runner-up prize, an increased on-bus digital advertising package worth £5,000. It delivers specialist palliative and end-of-life care to adults living in Oxfordshire with a life-limiting illness, plus support to their friends and family.

Not sure who entered the competition? 

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Full terms and conditions for the competition can be found here.