We asked you to get creative with your birthday wishes – and you didn’t disappoint!
This spring, we launched a very special giveaway, with 40 free return ferry tickets to the Isles of Scilly on offer as we celebrated the 40th anniversary if the iconic Scillonian III passenger ferry.
We asked people to wish Scillonian a ‘Happy 40th Birthday’ via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, with the best and most creative birthday wishes made in posts to the Isles of Scilly Travel social media channels winning a return ticket on Scillonian III from Penzance to St Mary’s.
We’ve been inundated with #HappyBirthdayScillonian posts ever since, and have counted up an incredible 1,748 entries on all three social media channels – wow!
Entries included messages, photo posts, gifs, memes, poems, collages, pictures of hand-drawn pictures and paintings, and even a piece of hand-sewn art.
Sharon Sandercock, Marketing and Communications Manager of the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, said: “We were totally overwhelmed by the response to our 40 ticket giveaway, and really touched and moved by some of the messages people took the time to write and post.
“We heard from people who took their honeymoon on the Isles of Scilly 40 years ago and travelled over on Scillonian III in her first year of service; from lots of regular travellers who are also celebrating a 40th, whether it be a wedding anniversary or a birthday, and from those who shared heart-warming personal memories of trips taken to Scilly over the last four decades.
“People told us why they loved Scilly and why they loved Scillonian III, and shared photos of trips taken and holidays enjoyed. There was a message from someone who helped to build the ship at Appledore 40 years ago, and from someone who held her wedding reception on board in the 1980s.
“It was a tough job to select just 40 winners from so many wonderful, warm wishes, and we’d like to thank everyone who took the time and trouble to wish Scillonian a happy 40th birthday.”
The winners are:
- Ivy Benton
- Judith Marshall
- Tessa Watts
- Paul Brooks
- Jean Cook
- Lisa Collins
- Amanda Bates
- Ben Mitchell
- Lisa Wilson
- Sandra Lewis
- Denise Gent
- Candy Nichols
- Chris Jackson
- Emma Speak
- Kimberley Milnes-Barker (for daughter Lily)
- Anthony Graves
- John Rainbow
- Susan Edwards
- Melissa Faith
- Emma Stewart
- Sue Gornall
- Alan Bolton
- Annemarie Pickering
- Eve Fry
- Julie Howe
- Glenys Millard
- Jenny Green
- Christopher Smith
- Karen Laity
- Jaysan Bunoomally
- Ann Peyton
- Mike Taylor
- Bronwyn Hocking
- Jemma Lessware
- Lucy (@Lucyewf)
- Vicky Evans
- Bruce Murray
- Lexx (@ParalleHouse)
- Lucy Wilkes
- Gemma Gist
Please note winners will be contacted with a direct message via the social media channel used to enter to arrange delivery of a gift voucher for their winning ferry ticket.