'Brand the Bus!' Competition 2023-2024

The 2023/2024 'Brand the Bus!' winner is here!

• OXFORD HOSPITALS CHARITY SCOOPS BUMPER £40,000 FIRST PRIZE
• BE FREE YOUNG CARERS AND STYLE ACRE CONFIRMED RUNNERS-UP
• MORE THAN 11,000 PUBLIC VOTES RECEIVED

 

We have confirmed Oxford Hospitals Charity as the winner of the hotly contested Brand the Bus! 2024 competition.

The charity supports hospitals across the Oxford University NHS Trust by providing them with the best medical equipment, research and facilities to benefit staff and patients.

It will now have its branding and key messages emblazoned on an Oxford Bus Company double-decker bus, which will be an electric vehicle in a first for the competition. The organisation will also receive a year’s worth of advertising with Greatest Hits Radio.  

Harwell based Be Free Young Carers provide emotional support, recreational and social activities to children with caring responsibilities across Oxfordshire and will receive a new ‘mega rear’ advertisement on the back of a bus.

Style Acre provides supported living, work and skills programmes for people with learning disabilities and autism, with community centres in Didcot, Wallingford and Banbury. It will receive a £1,000 worth of digital on-board advertising to help raise awareness of its activities.

The winner and runners up were selected by a judging panel from a shortlist of ten good causes who achieved the highest public votes. A record-breaking number of people voted for good causes this year, with more than 11,000 taking part.
 

The winner of 'Brand the Bus!' has received an advertising package worth over £40,000!

This package includes:

• Your charity or good cause on a brand-new electric bus, in service for at least one year
• Design support for the bus livery from the Oxford Bus Marketing team
• Advertising on digital bus screens on-board our city, park&ride and Thames Travel vehicles for a period of 6 weeks 
• Additional advertising on-board the branded bus for a period of 6 weeks
• One year of local on-air radio advertising on Hits/Greatest Hits Radio
   

In addition to this, two further advertising prize packages have been awarded to the runners up:

Runner up - £2,000 towards advertising on-board city and park&ride vehicles.

2nd runner up - £1,000 towards advertising on-board city and park&ride vehicles.

 

Not sure who's entered the competition?

Take a sneak peek at the gallery of entries below 

 

 

 

Full terms & conditions for the 'Brand the Bus!' competition can be found here.