South London Business Awards - Sponsorship Opportunities
If your company is located or looking to do business in the following 12 boroughs:- Lambeth, Croydon, Southwark, Wandsworth, Richmond, Kingston, Sutton, Merton, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley or Bromley you can now effectively promote your brand across the 12 London boroughs by sponsoring one of the following categories at the South London Business Awards a high profile regional branding event which will be held on the 19th May 2010 at Selhurst Park Stadium.
- Best Small Business
- Best Medium Business
- Best Large Business
- Best Business for Customer Service
- Best Business for Innovation
- Best Business for International Trade
- Best Business for Training & Development
- Best Business for Marketing
- Best Business for Sustainability
- Best New Business
- Entrepreneur of the Year
The title sponsor for this year is HSBC Plc and our media partners are Newsquest South London which publishes the Local Guardian and News Shopper newspapers ensuring publicity for the Awards right across South London, the Richmond & Twickenham Times and Colourful Radio. This range of media channels ensures that this significant event will be effectively publicised across the region
Regarding the rates for sponsorship substantial discounts are on offer.
The awards were developed to reward and celebrate South London’s vibrant and dynamic business community. It has gone from strength to strength and generated significant interest from this audience with over 55 companies reaching the finals in 2009, and 580 guests attending a Gala Dinner at Selhurst Park Stadium. Entry to the awards was free and open to all businesses in South London. The entry deadline was on 19th February 2010. The local chambers of commerce across the region and local authorities are supporting the event, and there have been articles published in their magazines about the event.
Please view attached PDF that outlines the various sponsorship opportunities for 2010.
Facts About South London
South London as a region currently boasts more than 112,500 businesses, including almost a thousand firms each with more than 250 employees and a GDP of £54.6 billion. The potential of the area south of the River Thames stretching from Richmond in the west across a dozen boroughs to Bexley in the east makes it an economy bigger than a raft of capital cities, including Berlin, Lisbon, Stockholm and Delhi!
Sponsorship includes:
- Logo placement on all publicity materials
- Acknowledgement as the category sponsor, and the opportunity to present the award trophy at the Gala Dinner on 19th May 2010 which will be held at Selhurst Park Stadium Ten tickets to the Gala Dinner in May 2010
- Promotion in all future press releases and the souvenir brochure printed and distributed to all guests at the dinner.
- Contact database of companies registering for the awards for your sales team to follow-up as appropriate
- As a sponsor and part of the judging process for a specific category you will be able to visit all the finalists at their premises.
For more information contact Magnus Cole, Business Development Consultant on Tel: 020 8253 4294 extn 175 or e-mail magnus.cole@southlondonbusiness.co.uk
