Spread the Word About Giving Day for a Chance to Win a $1,000 Tuition Credit!
Selkirk College students, help spread the word about Giving Day for your chance to win a $1,000 tuition credit!
Giving Day brings our community together to support students through emergency financial assistance, a campus food garden and hands-on learning opportunities.
How to Enter
Share it to your feed or story by 8:59 pm PDT on Saturday, October 24.
Tag @selkirkcollege and include #SelkirkGivingDay.
Have a private account? Email us a screenshot of your shared post so we can verify your entry.
Contest Details
Open to current Selkirk College students. One entry per student. No donation necessary. The $1,000 tuition credit applies only to unpaid Selkirk College tuition for the 2026–27 academic year and cannot be refunded, transferred or redeemed for cash. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. One eligible entrant will be randomly selected and contacted directly on Monday, October 26. The selected entrant must correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question to receive the prize.
For full contest details, please refer to the terms and conditions.
For full contest details, please refer to the terms and conditions.
Terms and Conditions
- The promoter of this contest is Selkirk College Foundation (“the Promoter") whose registered office is located at 301 Frank Beinder Way, Castlegar, BC, V1N 4L3.
- The Promoter is solely responsible for the organizing, administering, and fulfilling the contest. The contest and contest organizations are not affiliated with Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn in any way.
- There is no entry fee / purchase necessary to enter this contest.
- This contest is being held on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
- The contest is strictly open to current Selkirk College students and excludes Quebec residents.
- By entering this contest, an entrant is indicating their agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.
- The selected entrant must provide sufficient information to allow Selkirk College and Selkirk College Foundation to verify their identity and current enrolment status. This includes their full name and student number. Failure to provide the information necessary to verify eligibility may result in disqualification and selection of another entrant.
Participants enter the contest by sharing the official Selkirk College Giving Day post to their Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn feed, or to their Story where available, tagging Selkirk College and including #SelkirkGivingDay. Only one (1) entry per participant is permitted, regardless of the number of posts shared or platforms used. Multiple submissions will not result in additional entries. Participants with private accounts must email a screenshot of their shared post to @email before the contest closes to verify their entry.
Participants are responsible for ensuring their entries are complete, accurate and meet all contest requirements. The Promoter is not responsible for incomplete, inaccurate or unverifiable entries and is under no obligation to follow up with participants to correct or verify such entries. Entries that do not meet the contest requirements may be disqualified.
- Each Prize claim is subject to verification by the Promoter and/or its designated representatives. Submissions made with multiple addresses, under multiple identities, or through the use of any device or other method to enter multiple times or submissions that are in excess of the permitted number of submissions are automatically void. All contest submissions obtained through unauthorized sources or which are incomplete or in any way not in compliance with these Terms and Conditions are automatically void. The Promoter is not responsible for lost or late submissions. The Promoter is not responsible for any miscommunications, failed communications systems, software malfunctions, or for any human errors in connection with this contest. The Promoter may suspend or terminate this contest if the Promoter is of the view this contest’s administration or fair play has been compromised.
- The contest will open on Friday, October 23rd at 2pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
- Closing date for submission forms will be at Saturday, October 24th at 8:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). After this date, no further submissions towards the contest will be permitted.
- The Promoter is not responsible for submissions not received regardless of the cause for non-receipt.
- The Promoter reserves the right to cancel, terminate, suspend, or amend the contest and these terms and conditions without notice at its discretion, at any time, without prior notice.
- Entrants will be notified of any changes to the contest as soon as possible by the Promoter.
- The Promoter is not responsible for any injury or damage to your or any other person’s equipment (computer, mobile telephone, or other device) used by you to enter into the contest or obtain any materials related to the contest.
- One (1) potential winner will be selected by random draw from all eligible entries received during the contest period. The draw will be conducted by Selkirk College Foundation using a computerized random selection process. The odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received. The selected entrant must correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question, without assistance, before being declared the winner.
- The selected entrant will be notified through the social media account used to enter the contest on Monday, October 26, 2026. Entrants who submitted their entry by email will be contacted by email.
- If the selected entrant cannot be contacted within 2 days of notification, the Promoter reserves the right to withdraw the prize and pick a replacement winner.
The Promoter will coordinate with Selkirk College to apply the prize to the winner's student account. Prize funds will be transferred by the Promoter to Selkirk College only after the applicable add/drop deadline has passed for the semester in which the tuition credit is to be applied.
One (1) winner will receive a tuition credit valued at $1,000 CAD, applicable only toward unpaid Selkirk College tuition for the 2026–27 academic year. The credit cannot be applied retroactively to tuition already paid, used to generate a refund or cash payment, transferred to another individual, or exchanged for another prize. Any unused portion of the credit may be applied toward other unpaid Selkirk College tuition within the 2026–27 academic year, subject to these Terms and Conditions.
- Prizes must be accepted as awarded.
- Any and all prize-related expenses, including without limitation of any and all federal, provincial, and/or local taxes, shall be on the sole responsibility of the respective winners. No substitution of prize or transfer and/or assignment of the respective prizes to others nor request for the cash equivalent by the winner(s) are permitted.
- The respective winner(s) agree to supply the Promoter with additional information that the Promoter may reasonably require in order to process and facilitate the acceptance and/or use of the prizes and/or as required by law.
- The Promoter is not responsible, and disclaims all liability, for any loss, liability, injury, expense or damage of any nature, whether arising from negligence or any other cause, which is suffered by entrants’ participation in the contest or the acceptance and/or use by entrants, of the respective prizes.
- By participating in this contest, each entrant and winner agrees to: (a) be bound by these Terms and Conditions and the decisions of the Promoter; and (b) release and hold the Promoter harmless, and its Boards of Governors, Board of Directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all liabilities, losses, claims, demands, costs and expenses (including lawyer’s fees and litigation expenses on a solicitor and own client basis) whatsoever to which any of them may become subject arising from any actions or omissions by the entrant.
- The Promoter may require the winner(s) to sign a liability/publicity release, including a consent to the Promoter posting the winner’s name and photograph on its website. If a winner fails to return the contest documents within the time specified by the Promoter, they will forfeit their prize and an alternate winner will be selected.
- By participating in this contest, each entrant and winner agrees that the Promoter may post the winner’s name on its website and/or in its student newsletter.
- This contest is subject to all applicable laws of the Province of British Columbia and the laws of Canada, as well as these Terms and Conditions.