FAQs

How do I join your creative community?

If you have an interest or connection to Coventry & Warwickshire, you are welcome to join our Community!

Connect with us - follow Igers Coventry & Warwickshire on Instagram, like and comment on our posts.

Share with us - you can also tag @IgersCoventry in your instagram story posts, and we will share some of them with our community.

Get involved - Use our hashtags #igerscoventry and/or #igerswarwickshire for the chance to be featured on our page. Come along to one of our instameets, collaborate with us, or enter our competitions.

How do I give Igers C&W permission to feature my creative content?

If you tag us @igerscoventry and/or use our hashtags #igerscoventry or #igerswarwickshire, you acknowledge that you are giving permission for Igers Coventry & Warwickshire to share your photography or video content via our social media channels, with credit. You will usually be credited using your Instagram profile, for example @igerswarwickshire. If your name is clearly stated in your bio, then this may also be included with the credit.

If you do not wish to give us permission to share your images, please do not tag us or use our hashtags.

How does my content get selected for a feature on your social media channels?

You need to use our hashtags #igerscoventry or #igerswarwickshire or you can tag us @igerscoventry

Our Community Leaders review these regularly to select our daily features, and every week we invite a member of our Community to select our Sunday feature.

We encourage all levels of photographer and videographers to connect with our creative community and share their content. We select our features for a variety of reasons, this could be for outstanding composition, something that showcases a recent event, or simply something that brightens our day.

Do I need to have an Instagram account?

If you would like the chance to be one of our featured images or engage more actively with our creative community, then you will need to download Instagram from the App Store or Google Play. You can create your own profile on Instagram, and start sharing your amazing photos, videos, and stories.

If you don’t have an Instagram account, but you would like to view or comment on our featured images. You can follow us on Facebook or Twitter. You are also welcome to attend any of our instameets to see if you would like to get more involved with our creative community.

Why should I join your creative community?

Please see feedback from community members, testimonials from our collaborators, or quotes from our previous Community Leaders in the history of Igers C&W.

What is an instameet?

Instagrammers (igers) groups all over the United Kingdom and the World organise Instameets. These are photowalks, workshops or meet ups. If you would like to organise or make a suggestion for an instameet, please email igerscoventry@gmail.com or contact us.

Are there any membership fees?

There are no membership fees. Our aim is to create fun and free events for the benefit of our community, but there could be some occasions where we might request a small contribution.

Do I have to attend instameets?

We are flexible. You are welcome attend any of our instameets., but we do ask you to book to secure your place. This is because some instameets have a limited availability, due to the number of tickets allocated or venue capacity.

We love engaging with our community at instameets. They are a great opportunity to connect, explore together, and share tips with each other.

We offer a loyalty scheme with priority booking and other benefits for our more regular attendees - F5igers.

Do you run Competition or Giveaway prizes on your social media channels?

Sometimes we organise competitions or run giveaway prizes on our social media channels. These prizes are often donated by local organisations or brands in return for promotion on our account. We will clearly mark these donations using [Ad] to ensure that we comply with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) code of practice.

If local organisations or brands ask us to promote their own contests, then the Community Leaders will consider each request in terms of the interest and benefit to our creative community, prizes on offer, requirements of the contest, the time needed to deliver and our availability.

How do I submit a guest blog post? 

If you have a topic you think could work as a guest blog post get in touch with us, whether that is a mini tutorial, opinion piece or a subject near and dear to your heart about the local area.

Please contact us or email igerscoventry@gmail.com with your idea/title or draft blog post.

Your final blog post needs to between 300-2,000 words, with 2-10 jpeg images.

Images need to be 1500 pixels along the longest side or under 500KB. You can resize images using Adobe Creative Suite, or use compression sites such as Compress Jpeg or Website Planet’s Online PNG or Jpeg compression.