Good sports needed for the 2011 - 2012 Cracking Ideas competition!

Are you an innovator aged between 4 and 16 bursting with Cracking Ideas? Are you a footie fanatic or a gymnastics junkie? Do you go nuts for netball, ditzy for dance or potty for ping-pong?

Whether you're a gold medal sports star, a committed fan or an armchair aficionado, this year's sporty Cracking Ideas competition is for you.

So come on, get cracking with your creativity, activate your ingenuity and step up to the challenge … be a good sport and enter your innovative sporty Cracking Ideas!

How to enter your ingenious sport-tastic ideas

You can enter this year's Cracking Ideas competition by downloading the competition form and filling it in with your winning ideas for sporty patents, trade marks, design and copyright. Alternatively you can use your own materials, make models, take photographs, draw plans or record your cracking ideas in just about any way you feel suits your innovative sport, game or activity ideas.

You can upload your entry on the Cracking Ideas website or send it to us at:

Cracking Ideas Competition,
Intellectual Property Office,
FREEPOST CF4185,
Newport,
NP20 1ZZ.

Your sporty brainwaves can then be displayed in the very special trophy cabinet which is the Cracking Ideas Ideas Gallery and you'll be in with a chance of becoming a 2011 - 2012 victorious champ and winning some first class prizes !

So what are you waiting for? On your marks, get set, go .... get cracking!

Closing date: 31 April 2012