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Post by zandoze on May 3, 2006 10:29:55 GMT 1
ok i was wondering about sponsorship. What age should you get it or aloud it? Also who should you go to and what should you say to them.
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Post by slinger on May 3, 2006 12:52:23 GMT 1
what type of sponsership do you mean.......private or like from the lottery???
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Post by jeremy on May 3, 2006 13:57:32 GMT 1
There's a number of different options for sponsorship, some have restrictions, e.g. age. skill, geographical location.
PM me your details (age/location/club/ditances/rankings etc.and I'll try to help.
This year I acquired around £4,000 £5,000 from a variety of outside "bursaries", i.e. cheques from around £100ish -£300ish paid directly to my club's athletes. Ron Pickering Memorial Fund is probably the best known, but there are others.
The trick was to find out who sat on the "decision panel", find out from them the criteria on which they base the amounts, and help fill out the applications accordingly.
Those that receive bursaries must write in to thank the donor otherwise they won't be considered the following year. I know a case of one girl whose cheque for around £500 was ripped up and not sent, simply because she hadn't written to say thankyou for the previous year.
Good luck!
Jeremy
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Post by zandoze on May 3, 2006 17:44:40 GMT 1
ok i sent u my details tht u asked for... Any other info would be great thanks.
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Post by Patience on May 3, 2006 18:14:04 GMT 1
I know a case of one girl whose cheque for around £500 was ripped up and not sent, simply because she hadn't written to say thankyou for the previous year. Good manners costs nothing. Bad manners can cost £500.
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Post by slinger on May 3, 2006 20:50:26 GMT 1
yeah manners cost nothing and my mum always made me write a letter or two of sincere thanks [like i needed telling ] i got grants from the ron pickering memorial fund two years running and the kind grant to me was spent on new javelins, which of course aren't cheap so they helped tremendously. regarding private sponsorship i also contacted reebok about getting kit, as they are very local to me and john trower who coached me "bumped" into the lady who deals with all that stuff at a conference and told her about me and i got her phone number and then found out she lived about 5 miles away!!!! lol!!! so in a nutshell i managed to scrab free kit for training, trainers - loads of pairs of boots as they kept breaking.......for 3 years!!! - so i was lucky - this was after winning the english schools' and AAA's being ranked No1 in the UK, going 4th all time and 2nd all time as an u/17 throwing the 800g.........so to get sponsorship you need to be very good! OR be lucky [as i was] and know a few people...........dave parker had a kit deal with adidas only after getting a UK record, so it's tough.
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Post by frankplunkett on May 3, 2006 23:10:56 GMT 1
After many years of fruitless pursuit of donations, I found out that many potential doners prefer to fund groups of individuals, better publicity for their company...so maybe the jav forum could apply on behalf of many talented throwers and have a big party at the en...no sorry pass it on to the needy athletes.!!!!!!
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Post by jeremy on May 3, 2006 23:47:33 GMT 1
This might help a few others, following Zandose's question. Here are some tips in no particular order.
1. Check with your club (there'll be a committee); usually the Honourable Secretary has all the potential bursary info. Check too if there's a sponsorsjhip person on the committee. As a ranked athlete, ask them, politely and nicely of course,for money to buy a javelin for you. Check and cost out suitable javs first.
2. Check the Web for "The Ron Pickering Memorial Fund", and down load or request an application form, I Think they have to be in by September/October time, so you've got time. Check also the "Arthur J C Kendall fund".
3. Get on the web site of your "athletic association", mine is the "South East Athletic Association", which has a web site. Yourclub be different. There's bursary information there.
4. Concentrate on training and working hard which will lead to improvement.
5. If you're really serious about sponsorship, be prepared to write a few letters to lots of people/organisations.(I'll willingly help anyone with this). If you don't get something from someone don't blame them, it's up to you to develope the skills to learn how to motivate people into giving you what you want/need. Develop several answers to the question "What's in it for them?"
6. Expect nothing from anyone. Just ask again. Keep asking. Remove the word "quit" from your vocabulary
7. On the whole people love and reward passion
8. Keep enjoying the javelin
This process has done wonders for many youngsters at WSEH, my club.
This is a start, let me know if I can help further
All the best
Jeremy.
PS Kelly Holmes earns a shed load in appearance money and well done her, she deserves every penny. Imagine what she was worth 30 seconds before her First Gold medal. IE what a relatively small investment for a company who signed her up before she made it!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by zandoze on May 4, 2006 15:59:52 GMT 1
Yer those are good tips and points there. Thankyou
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