Sponsorship details

Sponsorship Opportunities

Thank you for your interest in taking sponsorship in the Corstorphine Fair, Saturday  2^nd June 2012

 

If you are new to the Corstorphine Fair its:

 

• A Community Fair – held bi-annually on the first Saturday in June.
• First held in 1986 and every second year thereafter.
• Recognised by The City of Edinburgh Council as the biggest community run event in Edinburgh
• Located in St Margaret’s Park, Corstorphine Primary School and High Street of Corstorphine.
• Attracts an estimated 20,000 people during the Fair Saturday.
• Over one hundred local and national community and charity groups take part to raise the profile of their work and also much needed funds.
• Estimated that these ‘participating groups’ who have a stall at the Fair, have raised around £250,000 in funding over the lifetime of the Corstorphine Fair.
• The Fair Committee receives a percentage of the takings provided from each of the participating groups; some of this is donated to local charities the remainder helps pay for the infrastructure of the fair. 137 separate charities/causes have received a donation from the Fair; the donations vary from £100’s to over £2,000; since its’ inception the Fair has donated nearly £60,000 to locals good causes in this way.
• The Fair Committee is made up of volunteers.
• All the required funding is raised through sponsorship, donations and fund raising activities.
• The Fair Committee provide the infrastructure (staging, marquee, electricity, sound, insurances, etc) as well as the stewarding, official programme and the entertainment that attracts the crowds on Fair Saturday; the cost of each Fair is in excess of £24,000; increases are experienced for each Fair e.g. public liability insurance £1,300 (2004) up to £2,400 (2010)
• Community and Charity groups taking part supply 100 stewards to help the Fair run smoothly on the day.
• The Fair attracts good media interest in local papers and on local radio stations.
• The fair committee has the right to exclude any groups which it does not feel fit the ethos of the fair.

 

 

Sponsorship Opportunities

 

The ‘Major Sponsor’ for The Corstorphine Fair – providing all administration costs, insurances, licences, electricity, infrastructure, facilities, hiring fees, etc. etc.

Benefits:                      Credit as ‘Major Sponsor’ on front  cover of official Programme

Plus:-

• Full page colour advert in programme;
• Link provided to the Corstorphine Fair Web Site {www.corstorphinefair.org.uk} with acknowledgement as “Major Sponsor”
• Facility to mount advertising banners;
• A designated prominent position in the Fair to mount your merchandising display;
• Credit as ‘Major Sponsor’ in programme;
• Frequent acknowledgment over public address through-out the day;
• Hospitality on Fair Day with partner and up to four guests;
• Framed certificate of appreciation.

 

 

 

Park Entertainment – Providing staging, lighting, sound system, entertainment arena, seating, barriers

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Benefits:                     Full page colour advert in Fair programme

Plus:-

•   Facility to mount advertising board on staged area.

•   Facility to mount merchandising display;

•  Credit in programme;

•  Acknowledgement of sponsorship on the Corstorphine Fair Website.

•   Hospitality on Fair Day with up to two guests;

•           PA announcements as Park Entertainment Sponsor

•   Framed Certificate of Appreciation:

 

 

Marquee – providing the hire of the marquee and associated buildings, flooring, seating, lighting, sound system

 

Benefits:                                  As for ‘Park Entertainment’ – see above

( advertising banner would be in the Marquee )

General – providing the hundred and one other things that are required to make the Fair the success it always proved to be ! ie. Football and Netball Competitions, Pipe Band, Tug O War, Battle of Bands Competition and even toilets, stewarding and security, bunting and catering

 

Benefits:                              Facility to mount advertising banner

Plus:-

• Facility to mount merchandising display
• Included in credits in Fair Programme
• Certificate of Appreciation

 

 

 

N.B.  We are more than willing to meet with you and discuss a level of Sponsorship that is suitable to you.  We would be delighted to arrange a ‘package’ of benefits and marketing opportunities tailored to the sponsorship level you chose.

 

Please contact either Dr Forbes Howie, Chairman, on 539 2315 or 07837495743

  Thanks !