2010 Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities - sponsor a Rudes show for £250

We have ambitious plans for the future, and inevitably this will call for investment. So in 2010 we are offering corporate sponsorship opportunities to help bridge this funding gap, and help (mainly small) businesses connect (politely!) with our audiences.

We know the financial climate is tough and we don't expect charity (... even though we are, oficially, a 'charity'!). In return for an investment of £250 a show, we will provide our sponsors with a package of marketing benefits that would cost much more than this to purchase commercially.

We very much hope that you will find our sponsorship packages attractive enough to consider extending your marketing initiatives into this rather unusual realm.

2010 sponsorship packages

Sponsor a show for £250

The simplest option is to sponsor a show for £250. In return, we offer sponsors:
  • Placement of sponsors branding on our sponsors web page for the entire season.
  • The opportunity to include an (approved) message of up to 250 words in our outbound email newsletters and promotional mailings. Our database has taken many years to build and contains thousands of 100% opt-in enthusiastic fans who devour enything they can get from The Rudes. Note that we will never sell our mailing list outright.
  • Placement of branding on our home page for the two weeks that bracket the show.
  • The chance to include a commercial message as a 'flyer' inserted into our on-the-night show programme
  • Display of branding (on a sponsor-provided roll-up banner) on the night of the show.
  • Five free complimentary tickets for the show.
  • The chance to associate their brand with an exceptionally high quality community experience.

To gain access to a (possibly inferior) commercial mailing list alone would cost more than we are asking for an entire show's worth of benefits! We didn't plan it this way, but our audiences are predominantly the residents of affluent rural communities - and if these are the kind of people that your business would like to connect with, sponsoring The Rudes could mean a genuine and powerful boost to your marketing initiatives. Show venues are listed here and are spread across the south of England.

Sponsor several shows - a 'region' - for £150 per show

If you are able to sponsor several shows (a minimum of 3) we can offer you all of the benefits of show sponsorship for each event, at a reduced equivalent sponsorship cost of £150 per show.

Sponsor the entire season for £7500

We are looking for a single strategic partner to sponsor us for the whole season. Sponsors branding will be included on all printed materials such as programmes and posters, and they will receive substantial sponsors benefits for the duration of the entire tour.

Of course we'd love it if you were interested in one of our sponsorship packages. But in fairness, they also have to work for you as good value marketing propositions in their own right. Please get in touch if you'd like to chat.