The wait is almost over for this year’s Sheerness Times Guardian Cute Kids’ competition.

Our photographer will be at the new venue of Tesco, Sheerness, from Tuesday morning.

This year’s event promises to be the biggest and best ever with two exciting changes being introduced.

Firstly, the competition is moving to the new venue of Tesco, Bridge Road, Sheerness, as we aim to provide a bigger and more central venue for participants.

Photographer Nigel Ryan, of event sponsor Photo25, will be based at the back of the store near the greeting cards.

Secondly, proud parents will be able to vote by text message this year as well as the traditional voting form in the paper.

Details on how to do this will be displayed on this website once all the cute kids’ pictures have appeared in the paper.

There will be one overall winner and two runners-up whose parents will share a cashpot of £700 and receive a framed colour portrait of their child as well as other goodies.

Last year’s winner was two-year-old Lucas Stickings with runners-up Zander Knox and Holly-Mae Stevenson. In total, we had 260 entrants.

Editor Matt Ramsden said: “Cute Kids is a massively popular event and seems to grow each year we do it. We’re really looking forward to getting the pictures in the paper.

“We’ll also be using technology by getting our website more involved and also giving people the chance to vote to text. I am sure this year’s event is going to be a stunning success.”

How to enter:

Fill out and take along the form published in the Times Guardian to Tesco, Sheerness, between Tuesday, September 29, and Saturday, October 3, and then again from Tuesday, October 6, until Friday, October 9.

The photographer will be there from 10am until 4pm with an hour’s lunch between 1pm and 2pm.

The pictures will appear in the paper once they have been taken and processed and will be published online later.

If you have any queries, call the newsroom on 01795 580300.