Inside this month’s survey we’re on the hunt for your opinions and habits on buying a car. Things like your intentions to buy a car, what is important to you in a car and how what you are most likely to do with your old car. We also want to uncover your thoughts on car insurance, especially in light of recent price increases and the cost of living.

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Congratulations to this month’s grand prize winner, Rhonda Hill from Bangor who takes a home a £100 gift card. £25 gift cards also go to Ruth Ross from Larne, William Mettleton from Carrickfergus, and John Hanna from Kilkeel. We hope you enjoy spending your prizes.

This month we're asking you to share your thoughts with us on choosing a broadband provider including what’s important to you, the type of devices you connect to your broadband at home. We also have some questions on mobile phone handsets, the types of things you use your phone for, and what’s important to you when choosing a mobile phone network provider.

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Congratulations to this month’s winners who each take home a £25 gift card… Andrew Norrie, Belfast, Niamh McCabe, Belfast, Robert Cousins, Belfast and Thomas Nicholl from Carrickfergus.        

It’s a topic we haven’t asked you about in any depth before, it seems fitting that in this season of gifting (one of the most popular times of year for buying beauty, grooming and cosmetic products) that you might have some valuable opinions to share with us. 

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Congratulations to this month's winners who each take home a £50 gift card... Marie-Claire Toner from Newry, Jonathan from Belfast, Elizabeth Anne Stewart from Newtownabbey and Ryan from Belfast.

This month we shopped around for your opinions on all things related to supermarkets. Less about the types of groceries you buy, but more about your habits when it comes to choosing a supermarket, how loyal you are and your thoughts on home delivery and click and collect services.

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Congratulations to this month's winners who each take home a £50 gift card... Sean McDowell from Drumaness, Richard Arthur Stockman from Belfast and Linda Silcock from Co Armagh.

It’s part of our name but it’s not a topic we ask about very often. This month we’re on the search for thoughts on all things related to work. Things like job satisfaction, plans to change jobs,  ‘side hustles’, or other ways to top-up income. We even touch on plans for the future including investments and pensions. 

Congratulations to this month's winners... our £50 gift card goes to Alan Irvine from Newtownards and £25 gift cards go to David Topping from Londonderry, Emma from Belfast, Stephen Martin from Ballymena and Lauren Patterson from Belfast.

In June we searched for your thoughts, opinions, and habits on a whole host of sub-topics related to competitions, betting, and lottery. Things like TV prize competitions and giveaways, quiz shows, sports betting, lottery, sweepstakes, bingo and more! Really anything where you have the opportunity to win something.

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Congratulations to this month’s winners who have already claimed their prizes. Our £20 gift cards go to Leanne Gregg from Carrowdore, Ernie Stewart from Newtownabbey, Donal Fleming from Newtownabbey, Bernie from Co. Down and Gary from Lisburn. We hope you enjoy your prizes and happy spending!

Our April survey is all about gathering thoughts on a range of areas that technology impacts on our live by answering 20 short questions covering a range of topics including; shopping, travel, entertainment, money, social media and more!

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Congratulations to our winners who each win a £20 gift card... Ruth Roulston from Bangor, Janine Cousins from East Belfast, Scott from Belfast, Sarah Watson from Craigavon, Michael Hunter from Claudy, Colin Coyle from Newry, Terri Forbes from Banbridge and Verena from Craigavon. Happy Spending.

Dry January might be over, but our habits and tastes are changing, as are our attitudes towards living a healthier lifestyle. That means more and more of us are turning to low, or no, alcohol versions of popular drinks like beers, wine, and spirits throughout the year. That’s what this month’s survey is dedicated to.

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Congratulations to Nick from Belfast who is our £100 grand prize winner whilst our £20 gift cards go to runners up Stephen from Co. Antrim, Damien Harrison from Belfast, Alexander Lindsay from Larne, Angela Derby from Belfast and Isabel Hazel Pierce from Lisburn. Thanks to everyone who took part and well done to this month's winners. 

For our final survey of 2022 we rounded off a year of opinion sharing with a quick game of Christmas This or That? in our December You Decide survey.

Congratulations to our final winners of 2022. Our £100 gift card goes to Angela Derby from County Down and £50 gift cards go to Sarah Watson from Portadown, Faith Drummond from Belfast and Luke McCann from Omagh. Happy Spending and just before Christmas too!

From gaming to podcasts and audio books we're delving into the world of electronic entertainment. Whether it's on your smartphone, smart speaker or games console, our October survey will uncover your thoughts and habits on 'electronic entertainment'.

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Congratulations to our lucky winners who each win a £50 digital gift card. Happy spending Jenna McConnell from Newtownards, Robert Moore from Carrickfergus and Maureen McKenna from Newtownabbey.

Our August survey explored all things relating to back to school. Things like back to school preparations such as uniforms, schoolbags and what’s going in those school lunchboxes!

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Congratulations to our winners who each take home a £20 digital gift card from this shorter monthly survey... Sam Scott from Carrickfergus, Jenna McConnell from Newtownards, James Evans from Bangor, Sally McAuley from Carrickfergus and Sinead McParland from Belfast.

It was only last month Ed Sheeran played to 80,000 fans in Belfast, Belsonic kicked off its 2022 line-up this month and the newly refurbished Grand Opera House is welcoming back theatre lovers. Our June 2022 survey was dedicated to all things Live Event related. Congratulations to this month's winners who have already claimed their prizes. Tony Keightley from Belfast takes home the top prize of a £100 gift card and Sean from Belfast and Kelly Henning from Belfast each win a £30 gift card.

In April 2022, we explored your opinions on all things relating to online shopping and online purchases. Up for grabs were 5 x £50 digital gifts. Congratulations to this month's winners who have already claimed their prizes... Alan Gilmore from Derry~Londonderry, William Mettleton from Carrickfergus, Jade Nielson from Articlave and Samantha Guimaraes from Craigavon.

In February 2022, we ask our community of NI urbanites all about recruitment and job hunting. This month's winners each take home a £50 digital gift card! Congratulations goes to Stephen Bell from Belfast, Heather Harrison from Belfast, Cheryl  from County Down and Phil Mitchell from Lurgan. Thank you to everyone who took part and we hope our latest winners enjoy their prizes.

To round off another great year of opinion sharing we gave our members the month off. Instead we offered up the chance to take part in a festive-themed prize draw and pocket a £20 digital gift card just in time for Christmas. Congratulations to our winners... Christopher from County Antrim, George Murray from Newtownabbey, Peter from County Antrim, Lauren McCloud Patterson from Belfast, Sarah from County Derry~Londonderry, William Gilmore from Belfast, Victoria Johns from Belfast, Emma Hudson from Lisburn, Angela Derby from Co. Down, Sarah Watson from Craigavon, Luke from Omagh and Ellen Hutton from Bangor.

In October 2021, we didn’t quite hop in a DeLorean time machine but we did go in search of your opinions on cinema and movies. Congratulations to our lucky winners who each receive a £40 digital gift card straight to their inboxes... Paul Ashe from Carrickfergus, George Glenholmes from Craigavon, Selin Harper from Omagh, Emily from County Tyrone, Sandra from County Antrim and Alanah Donaldson from Kilkeel. Thanks to everyone who took park and happy spending to our winners this month.

In August 2021, and the week that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Climate Change report, we asked our work.shop.play. community in Northern Ireland all about their thoughts on sustainability and the environment. Big congratulations to Michael McLean from Newtownabbey who takes home our top prize of £100 digital gift card. Congratulations to our runners up too who each won a £20 digital gift card… Niamh McCabe from Belfast, Paul Ashe from Carrickfergus, Stephen Williamson from Enniskillen and Lesley Bratty from Newtownards.

In June we dedicated our survey to that little piece of tech most of us hold dear. Literally! Big congratulations go to our winners who have claimed their £20 digital gift cards. Prizes should have landed in your inbox already... Ivan Dodds from Belfast, Leon Michelle Mcconnell from Derry~Londonderry, Kathryn Polin from Belfast, Wendy Cousins from Craigavon, Nicholas from County Down, Jill Paul from County Antrim, Angela Derby from Belfast, Tonia McDonald from Belfast and Ian Stone from Newry.

This month we were looking for a whopping 12 lucky winners! Congratulations to or main survey winners who each take home a £20 digital gift card... Luke McCann from Omagh, Andy Skinner from Bangor, Courtney Livingstone from Belfast, Sara Wilson from Omagh, Emma Hudson from Lisburn, Ashley Boyd from Cookstown, Gemma McCaughey from Newtownabbey, James Cole from Belfast and Vanessa Rivington from Dollingstown. The giveaways didn't stop there this month! Congratulations (and a £50 digital gift card) also went to our first photo contest winners... Leigh Rowntree and Meghan Quigley both from Belfast. Thanks to everyone who took part and we hope our winners enjoy their prizes.

In February you shared your thoughts with us about spending more time in your local area due to the ongoing pandemic. A big thank you to everyone who took the time to complete our survey. Rather than one grand prize we chose to share the prize fund this month by giving away more £20 digital gift cards (woo hoo!). This winners are... Charlie Calvert from Newtownards, Sarah McCurdy from Belfast, Hannah from Co. Antrim, Victoria from Co. Down, Mark Dobbin from Comber, Selena Maguire from Newry and Damien Harrison from Belfast, Pamela McGregor from Ballymoney and Bronagh O'Neill from Newtownabbey. Happy Spending!

What a way to finish a crazy year? You guys made us feel warm and fuzzy inside with your 2020 Highlights... thank you to everyone who took part in our final survey of 2020. Special congratulations go to Pauline Allison from Hillsborough, Damien Harrison from Belfast, Jill Paul from County Antrim, Niall O'Halloran from Bangor, Leanne Gregg from Carrowdore who each win a £20 egift card. 

£50 gift cards also go to our photo contest winners Audrey McClements from Antrim and Debbie Smallwoods from Ballyclare. Happy spending everyone!

Congratulations this month goes to all of our winners following our survey on Winter Health. Roma Barry from Belfast takes our top prize of a £50 egift card with £25 egift cards going to Pamela Mcgregor from Ballymoney, Stephen Moran from Banbridge and Nicholas Mullan from Belfast. Thanks for taking part and happy spending!

The outlook is positive for Scott Adams from Belfast, Tyler Dray from Lurgan, Stewart Martin from Ardglass, Carole Glass from Belfast and Stephanie from Belfast who each have won a £30 egift card delivered straight to their inboxes! Happy Spending!

We decided to share the wealth this month and instead of a top prize, we gave away £20 egift cards to10 lucky winners who are; Jeroen from Co. Down, Hilary Doherty from Lurgan, Thomas Nicholl from Carrickfergus, Sally McAuley from Carrickfergus, Eithne Dowds from Belfast, Rachel Watterson from Belfast, Ellen Hutton from Bangor, Stephen from Co. Down, David Wilson from Newtownabbey and Michael Hunter from Claudy. 

The pandemic may have put a stop to holidays this year, but the thought was there with our holiday themed prizes this month! Congratulations to Coleen Kennedy from Banbridge on winning our top prize of some Bose® Wireless In-Ear Headphones. The Ted Baker travel organiser goes to Colin Kennedy from Belfast, the Belkin Power Bank Charger goes to Stefanie Smyth from Belfast and Go Travel RFID Micro Credit Card Wallets go to Gary McPhillips from Belfast and Sandy Lindsay from Larne.

Congratulations to Stanley Rodgers from Newtownabbey who wins our top prize of a £100 gift card. Kathy Biggerstaff from Dunmurry, Jonathan from Belfast, Ashley from Holywood and Charlie Graham from Newtownards are our lucky runners up and each receive a £25 gift card.

This month we had an exciting partnership with Northern Ireland's public transport provider, Translink, to uncover your opinions and habits on Metro bus services. We asked you about things like your usage of Metro, why you use Metro, how frequently you use Metro. 

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Congratulations to this month’s winners who each take home a £50 gift card… Luke from Omagh, Mark Stockard from Newtownards, Josue from Lisburn and Rose Winter from Belfast.

We’ll admit that it’s not the most exciting topic, especially after Christmas when the thought of thinking about your personal finances can be off-putting to say the least! But it’s an important topic (and one we haven’t asked about since November 2019!), so we hope that you can find the time to take part and share your thoughts with us. 

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Congratulations to the winners of our first survey of 2024 who each receive a £25 gift card... Geraldine Russell from Belfast, Gary Stewart from Dollingstown, Kelly Henning from Belfast, Mr Darryl Beveridge from Londonderry, Adam from Newtownabbey, Kirsty Boyle from Lisburn, Rachael Watson from Portadown, Myles Wilson from Groomsport, Nita Reid from Banbridge and Sharon Ross from Larne.

For our penultimate survey of 2023 we’re mixing things up. In a survey called “the big brand survey” we asked you about familiar brands such eBay, Adidas, Muller and ITV. With so much variety there’ll be something for everyone inside.

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Congratulations to this month's winners who each take home a £25 gift card... Ben Johnston from Lisburn, Chad Price from Newtownards, Sarah Watson from Craigavon and Pauline McCord, Sophie Douglas and Marty Thompson all from Belfast. 

Congratulations also goes to Karen Hamilton from Newtownards who takes home a £50 gift card following this month’s second prize draw for our bonus questions on streaming brand, Netflix.

This month we asked you to up a sweat and take our short survey all about gyms and activewear. Everything from memberships to your reasons for going to the gym.

Congratulations to this month's winners... our grand prize of a £100 gift card goes to Laurence Burrell from Belfast and £20 gift cards go to Shannon Stanley, Lisburn, Joanne Gilmore, Antrim, Nick from Newtownards, Mary Carey from Belfast and Mark stockyard from Millisle.

In another survey-first, this July we’re on the lookout for your thoughts and opinions on all things related to pets! Things like the type of pet you own, shopping for your pet (think dog food, treats, gifts and even insurance cover), but we also have some just for fun questions to discover more about your relationship with your pets.

Congratulations to this month’s winners who have already claimed their prizes. Our £50 gift cards go to Beth Nicholl from Newtownards, Roma Barry from Belfast, Rachel Watterson from Belfast and Myles from County Down. We hope you enjoy your prizes and happy spending!

In May we took a deep dive into your thoughts, opinions, and habits on a topic we’ve never asked you about before - the vitamin and supplements sector. Some of the areas we covered included the types of vitamins and supplements you buy - from multivitamins to protein to collagen. We also uncovered your thoughts on regular brands and foods that have added ingredients to boost wellness benefits.

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Congratulations to our winners who each win a £50 gift card... Evangeline Estelle Marlow from Belfast, Matthew Neilly from Belfast and Jenna Law from Belfast. We hope you enjoy your prizes.

In a departure from our usual survey format, this month we wanted to get your thoughts on and opinions on bus advertising in Northern Ireland - wrapped buses in particular. You may, or may not know, that Global, the company behind work.shop.play. offers a wide range of advertising opportunities to brands and companies across Northern Ireland. So your thoughts really help us understand how our different advertising formats can help create great campaigns for these brands.

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Congratulations to this month's winners who each take home a £25 gift card...Graeme Niblock from Newtownards, Michael Hunter from Claudy, Alison McClean from Newtownards, Nita Reid from Banbridge, Ausby Joshua Rodrigues from Belfast and Brenda from Co. Antrim.

We're going to kick start a new year of surveys, opinion sharing and prize winning with a survey called "Your Journey" which is all about getting a better understanding of your regular travel habits including things like modes of transport, types of daily journeys made, changing travel patterns etc. 

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Congratulations to our grand prize winners, Gemma Capparelli from Belfast and Robert McCrory from Newcastle who each win a £50 gift card. Congratulations also goes to lucky runners up who each take home a £25 gift card… Stephen Moran from Banbridge, Katie Eadie from Lisburn, Damien Harrison from Belfast and Martin Mulholland from Lurgan. We hope you enjoy spending your prizes!

In our November survey we’re embarking on new territory in a ‘survey first’ for us and exploring your thoughts on dating.

We’re not getting too personal, instead asking about dating experiences, thoughts on dating in general and experiences and perceptions of online dating. 

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Congratulations to Claudia Kirk from Glengormley and Matthew from Belfast who each win a £50 digital gift card. £25 gift cards also go to Alan Reid, Alison McClean from Newtownards, Michael McLean from Newtownabbey and Kay McKnight from Lisburn.Enjoy your prizes and happy spending everyone.

For our September survey we move away from summer and turn our attention to seasonal holidays and occasions taking place throughout the rest of the year. We’ve split our survey into three parts with three different topics covering Halloween, Black Friday (and yes, we’re going to say it…) Christmas! 

Congratulations to our 3 lucky winners who each win a £75 digital gift card. Happy spending Elizabeth Dawson from Larne, Eamonn Deane from Derry City and Vanessa Rivington from Dollingstown.

For our July survey it's a game of two halves if you like! In a departure from our usual survey format, we have questions on two different topics. Up first, was the upcoming World Cup 2022 followed by a few light-hearted questions about TV and movie streaming.

Congratulations to our winners who each take home a £22 gift card... Colin Kennedy from Belfast, Ellie from Ballymoney, Suzanne McLaren from Belfast, Karin Lyons from Bangor, Gary from Lisburn, Robyn Fraser from Belfast, Heather Taylor from Greyabbey, Gilbert from Derry~Londonderry and David from Belfast.

Congratulations also goes to our Cost of Living bonus survey winner, Deborah Longmore from Larne, who takes home a £100 gift card.

This month we took off in search of your opinions on all things related to flying. Congratulations to all this month's winners! Paddy Watters from Downpatrick takes home our grand prize of a £150 digital gift card, whilst £20 gift cards go to Andrea Burns from Derry~Londonderry, Kris McGuckian from Larne, Niamh McCabe from Belfast and Margaret Bodger from Strabane.

In March 2022, we explored our Northern Ireland urbanites’ opinions all things related to public transport. Our grand prize winner is Kirsty Scott from Bangor who wins a £100 digital gift card! Our runners-up are Sharon Donnell from Derry, Robert McCrory from Newcastle and Thomas Simpson from Portstewart who each take home a £25 digital gift card! Congratulations to all our winners and a big thank you to everyone who took the time to take part.

In January 2022, we partnered with the NI Cyber Security Centre to ask our community of NI urbanites all about staying secure online. Congratulations to our grand prize winner Michelle Fletcher from Comber who takes home a £150 digital gift card! Congratulations also goes to our £20 digital gift card winners… Ellen McCurry from Belfast, Bruce Young from Bangor, Nick Heath from Belfast, Ben Collister from Crumlin and Louise Doherty from Belfast. Happy Spending everyone!

In November 2021, we asked our community of NI urbanites all about returning to foreign travel. Not being able to travel or enjoy a holiday was one of the big downsides of the pandemic – especially if separated from family and loved ones. Congratulations to our grand prize winner Nick from County Down who took home a £100 digital gift card. Congratulations also goes to Carlolyn Wilson from Belfast, Ashley from Holywood and Max Lilleyman from Antrim who each took home a £20 digital gift card.

In September 2021, we took a little trip around the world to explore your opinions on world foods and cuisine. Congratulations to our winners who each win a £20 digital gift card (perfect for treating yourself to a tasty takeaway or something new from the supermarket world foods section!)…Stephen Moran from Banbridge, Jennie Hammond from Belfast, Shannon Allison Stanford from Belfast, Nicola McCabe from Newry, Lorraine from Co. Armagh, Kelvin from Co. Antrim, Maureen McKenna from Newtownabbey and John Davidson from Coleraine.

This month, instead of a survey, we decided to give our members a little break - some time to put their feet up. But we did still give away some digital gift cards in a surprize draw. Congratulations to our top prize winners James William Evans from Bangor and Laura from Belfast who each win a £50 gift card. £20 gift cards also go to Roisin Hughes from Belfast, Alison McClean from Newtownards, Ben Collister from Crumlin, Martin Logan from Crawfordsburn, Mark Rowney from Belfast, Audrey McClements from Antrim, Plamena from Co. Armagh Loraine from Co. Antrim and Laura Sloan from Belfast. Happy spending everyone!

In May 2021, after a long winter of dark nights, cold weather and restrictions, we packed our survey (sadly not our suitcase) with different questions all relating to summer. Big congratulations to this month's four winners who each take home a £50 digital gift card. Enjoy your prize... Mary Carey from Belfast, Helen Elliman from Belfast, Samantha Guimaraes from Craigavon and Mark Rowney from Belfast

One of our most important surveys, our Member Satisfaction Survey is your chance to share your thoughts on us and your experience as a valued member of the work.shop.play. community. Congratulations to Thomas Richard Simpson from Portstewart Caroline from Belfast and Katie Eadie from Lisburn who each take home a £50 digital gift card. Thanks to everyone who took part and we hope our winners enjoy their prizes.

And we’re back! We kicked off 2021 with our survey all about Style and Personal Care and of course there’s no survey without a few winners! Congratulations to our first fashionable winners of 2021… Angela Love from Belfast is our grand prize winner taking home a £100 digital gift card whilst our £20 runner-up digital gift cards go to Kathryn Polin from Belfast, William Gilmore from Belfast, Peter Rusk from Newtownards, Graeme from County Down and Ann Liddle from Lisburn. Enjoy your prizes everyone!

This month we were hungry for your opinions on food and drink and you certainly satisfied our hunger! Congratulations to Glen Wilson from Portadown who won our top prize of a £100 egift card. Congratulations also goes to Brendan Doody from Omagh, Beth Livingstone from Lisburn, Martin Drumm from Belfast, Samantha Reilly from Lisburn and Karla Butler from Belfast who each take home a £20 egift card.

As part of our Six Things September you shared your thoughts on what Christmas will be like as we continue to live with Coronavirus. Well Christmas has come early to Ruth Roulston from Bangor who takes home our top prize of a £100 egift card. Congratulations also goes to Leon McConnell from Derry, Kim Brown from Belfast, Hugh Connolly from Newtownabbey and Heather Harrison from Belfast who each have won a £20 egift card!

As they saying goes… “Treat yo-self!” Happy spending to this month’s winners; Lauri Hutton from Carrickfergus, Lyndsey from Co. Derry~Londonderry and Gerard Havlin from Newtownabbey who each win a £50 egift card.

After a short break last month, we came back to discover how your lives are in lockdown. We’ve also made the switch to contact-free prizes with electronic gift cards delivered straight to your inbox and redeemable online. Our top prize of a £100 egift card goes to Avril O'Sullivan and £25 runner up egift cards go to Helen McLaughlin and James Byrne. Congratulations!

Fiona Polley from Downpatrick is our top prize winner this month and has won a Google Nest Home Hub. Runner up recipe journals go to Kate Alves-Areias, Alan Irvine from Dundonald, Sharon Donnell from Derry and Eamonn Deane from Derry.