Terms and conditions

LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship 2024

Please read these LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition rules carefully. If you enter this competition, we will assume that you have read these rules and that you agree to them.

Entering the LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship 2024

1. The LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship 2024 is open to all applicants who have been accepted to study on any of LCCM’s full-time courses commencing September 2024, meet all course entry criteria and who are aged 17 years or over, except employees of LCCM, their families, agents or any third party directly associated with administration of LCCM’s Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition.
2. To enter the competition a candidate must have accepted their offer to study at LCCM and signed the contract and submitted their scholarship audition materials by the Closing Date.
3. The Closing Date of the LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition is 23:59 on Sunday 17th September.
4. LCCM accepts no responsibility for entries not successfully completed due to a technical fault (technical malfunction, computer hardware or software failure, satellite, network or server failure) of any kind.
5. The winner will be publicised via LCCM channels and media communications in September 2024.
   
   
   The Prize
6. The winner will receive a Mathew Knowles Scholarship at LCCM to cover LCCM course fees valued up to a maximum of twenty-seven thousand seven-hundred and fifty pounds (£27,750) (‘Prize’).
7. The winner will be announced at the Grand Final judged by Dr Knowles and a panel of industry experts in October 2024. If the winner does not respond to LCCM within 7 days of being notified by LCCM then the winner’s Prize will be forfeited and the Promoter will be entitled to select another winner in accordance with the process described above.
8. The Prize will be offset against course fees due to be paid each academic year by the winner of the Prize and will be applied when the applicable course fees become due for payment.
9. The Prize for the winner is non-exchangeable and non-transferable. No cash-equivalent is available.
10. The decision of LCCM regarding any aspect of the LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into about it.
11. LCCM must either publish or make available information that indicates that a valid award took place. To comply with this obligation, LCCM will publish the name of the winner of the Prize within one month of the closing date as stated in condition 4 above.
    
    
    LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition Conditions
12. The prize winner will be bound by LCCM’s standard Terms and Conditions of Enrolment https://lccm.org.uk/terms-and-conditions/
13. The Prize winner may be required to take part in promotional activity related to the LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition and the winner shall participate in such activity on LCCM's reasonable request. LCCM and its related companies may use for an unlimited time, the winners' voice, image, photograph and name for publicity purposes (in any medium, including still photographs and films, and on the internet, including any websites hosted by LCCM and its related companies) and in advertising, marketing or promotional material without additional compensation or prior notice.
14. LCCM shall use and take care of any personal information you supply to it as described in its privacy policy, a copy of which can be seen here https://lccm.org.uk/privacy-policy/and in accordance with data protection legislation. By entering the LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition, you acknowledge and understand that personal information about you will be collected, retained, used and distributed in order to process and contact you about your participation in the LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition, and for the purposes outlined in condition 14 above.
15. LCCM accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury or disappointment incurred or suffered by you as a result of entering the LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition or accepting the Prize. LCCM further disclaims liability for any injury or damage to your or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials in connection with the LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition. Nothing in these conditions shall exclude the liability of LCCM for death, personal injury, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation as a result of its negligence.
16. LCCM reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition with or without prior notice due to reasons outside its control (including, without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected or actual fraud). The decision of LCCM in all matters under its control is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.
17. LCCM shall not be liable for any failure to comply with its obligations where the failure is caused by something outside its reasonable control. Such circumstances shall include, but not be limited to, weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane, strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, pandemic, inevitable accidents, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure.
    
    
    LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Terms & Conditions
18. A full scholarship will be awarded at LCCM to cover the winner’s full-time tuition fees for the regular duration of their enrolled programme at LCCM and for a maximum of three years for an undergraduate degree.
19. The LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship is open to all current applicants for LCCM courses starting in September 2024 and any new applicants to LCCM that:
    - Meet the entry criteria set out above; and
    - Apply, accept and return their contracts of enrolment within the dates and timescales set out in condition 4. above.
20. The full Scholarship winner will receive a maximum 3-year waiver of fees as described in condition 7 above.
21. The scholarship winner must:
    (a) pass each year with an average mark of not less than 55% per academic year to continue to receive their scholarship;
    (b) complete their course and graduate;
    (c) act as an ambassador for LCCM including but not limited to attending and where required performing at open days, performing at schools’ visits, conducting tours and helping to promote LCCM at other such recruitment or outreach events.
22. LCCM reserves the right to withdraw any scholarship award where the scholar fails to meet the above requirements or where the scholar defers their place, interrupts their studies or withdraw from their course. The decision of LCCM is final.
23. Where LCCM withdraws any scholarship for the above reason, LCCM reserves the right to seek payment from the scholar for the remaining balance of fees as per the standard Terms and Conditions of Enrolment.
    
    
    Intellectual Property
24. All Competition entries and any accompanying material submitted to LCCM will become the property of LCCM on receipt and will not be returned to you.
25. By submitting your Competition entry and any accompanying material, you agree to:
    (a) assign to LCCM all of your intellectual property rights to your audition tape, pitch or performance with full title guarantee; and
    (b) waive all moral rights in and to your LCCM Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition entry and otherwise arising in connection with your entry to which you may now or at any time in the future be entitled under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended from time to time and under all similar legislation from time to time in force anywhere in the world.
    
    
    Governing Law
26. These Terms and Conditions and any disputes under them (whether contractual or non-contractual), shall be governed by English law and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
    
    
    Severance
27. If any provision or part-provision of these Terms and Conditions is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid, legal and enforceable. If such modification is not possible, the relevant provision or part-provision shall be deemed deleted. Any modification to or deletion of a provision or part-provision under this clause shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of this Agreement.
    
    
    Assignment
28. You may not assign, transfer, mortgage, charge, subcontract, declare a trust over or deal in any other manner with any of you rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions. LCCM may at any time assign, mortgage, charge, declare a trust over or deal in any manner with any or all of its rights under these Terms and Conditions.
    
    
    Third Party Rights
29. These Terms and Conditions do not give rise to any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
    
    
    Entire Agreement
30. These Terms and conditions together with LCCM's standard Terms and Conditions of Enrolment constitute the entire agreement between LCCM and you. They supersede and extinguish all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to the LCCM scholarship competition. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in these Terms and Conditions or LCCM's standard Terms and Conditions of Enrolment shall exclude or limit any liability which cannot be excluded by law.
    
    
    Privacy Policy
31. By registering to enter into LCCM’s Mathew Knowles Scholarship Competition you acknowledge that LCCM may store and use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy. Where we use your personal information for marketing purposes and you do not wish to receive marketing correspondence from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by emailing us at contact@lccm.org.uk
32. LCCM will not share your information with third parties without telling you, either through our privacy policy or by email, unless we are required to do so to comply with our legal obligations. We will process personal information about you in accordance with our privacy policy, which can be found here https://lccm.org.uk/privacy-policy/
33. By entering the LCCM scholarship competition, you confirm that you have read our privacy policy in full and understand its content. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at the email address provided above.

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