BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER NABGC Boxing Championships Class D Finals - Sponsorship Prospectus 2018 Gorton Monastery - Thursday 29th November 2018 THE NABGC BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The National Association of Boys & Girls Clubs Boxing Championship is recognised by the boxing community as one of the most prestigious competitions. It is certainly one of the most long-standing having been organised for over 100-years.
In 2017, our championships attracted almost 2,000 entries across four age categories and culminated in four national finals, with competitors from as far afield as Plymouth, Cardiff, Bristol, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Yorkshire, Durham and Northern Ireland - it is the only UK-wide Youth Boxing Championships.
Former competitors in the NABGC Championships include Ricky Hatton, Tyson and Hughie Fury, Amir Khan, Prince Nasseem, John Conteh, and many more. It must be pointed out that they didn’t all necessarily win the NABGC Championships, such is the quality of the competition.
A new innovation in 2017, saw NABGC live streaming our final, hosted by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Manchester. With minimal publicity about the stream done via Facebook, the event was viewed by almost 50,000 people and there was a social media reach of over 250,000 people.
We think this presents a great opportunity for companies and organisations to promote their brand and products, but also their values and social concern, by supporting local grass-roots, voluntary Boys & Girls Clubs and Boxing Clubs, of which there are over 2,000 supported by the members of National Association of Boys & Girls Clubs.
Please read further on in this document to find out how you can sponsor this prestigious Boxing championships. THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER & NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS?
The National Association of Boys & Girls are a voluntary sector youth charity providing positive, life transforming programmes of activities for young people and essential help, support, advice and encouragement for thousands of volunteers who serve in the most deprived communities in our country. Currently, through our established network of twenty members we reach over 100,000 young people and support around 15,000 volunteers in over 2,000 youth clubs. We provide a range of positive educational and recreational activities for young people, such as competitions, taster events, challenge and residential experiences. We also offer training, support advice and networking opportunities for the volunteers that keep our clubs going. This work has been taking place across the UK for over a century. Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Manchester have been in existence for 110-years with their oldest members, Stockport Lads Club, club clocking up 130-years of service to the community in 2019. Collyhurst and Moston Lads Club Boxing Club celebrates 100- years this year and Norbrook Youth Club in Wythenshawe celebrates it’s 60th birthday in 2018 The Boys & Girls Clubs movement has a rich and successful history, both locally and nationally. The national and local organisations, work in tandem wo help young people grow and progress beyond their physical, geographical and emotional boundaries. This helps them to become positive members of the their local community and good UK citizens, who lead positive, happy and fulfilled lives. The National Boxing Championships is a vital and treasured part of that history and the work we continue to do. We hope you can support us in continuing our work, by sponsoring our activities. NABGC Boxing Championships Class D National Final - What you will get as headline sponsor Sponsorship Opportunities - - Your branding at the show. NABGC Class D Final Sponsor £10,000 - Full page advert in the event programme. - Publicity banners at the show & especially on the awards platform. We are looking for a sponsor for the NABGC Class D National Final, being hosted here in Manchester at the Gorton Monastery on Thursday 29th - Your brand name announced as our headline sponsor at the event. November 2018. - Opportunity to present trophies and awards to competitors at the end Your sponsorship will fully cover the costs of our showcase national final of the bout. at a prestigious venue. Local companies, along with invited civic - Your brand on our website as the headline sponsor. dignitaries will be able to enjoy a three-course dinner and around 15 - Your brand acknowledged as the headline sponsor on our live bouts of good quality amateur Boxing, in which future Olympians and broadcast. World Champions may be boxing. - A table for 10 people at the event including 3-course meal. Your table The event will be streamed lived to around 50,000 people and wider will have full view of the ring and the evening’s boxing. social media engagement will reach around 250,000. Your sponsorship will also cover the costs of awards, officials, medics, ring hire and production costs. Broadcast Sponsor £5,000 What you will get for your sponsorship
Our 2017 final, hosted by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater • Full acknowledgement as our broadcast sponsor with brand and logo promotion on the Manchester, was streamed live over Facebook. live stream and commentator promotion The statistics from this live broadcast showed that, around • Acknowledgement in finals programmes with free full page advert 50,000 people viewed the show and that there was a social • A table for ten people at the event with a three-course meal media reach of over 250,000. • Opportunity to display banner and brand and products at our event This was achieved with minimal publicity and via a very • Opportunity to present trophies and awards to participants small Facebook partner / broadcaster. This year we would like stream our final again, but this time promote the broadcast more fully and fully exploit the op- portunities that modern day media outlets offer. With your support we believe we could reach well over 50,000 views and engage many more than the 250,000 people reached through social media in 2017. As our main broadcast sponsor you can put your brand, product and services in the view of a huge audience, reaching people from the Boxing community, youth and community as well as the business world and general public. It is an opportunity to demonstrate your support to local communities, the sport of Boxing and the personal development of young people. Awards Sponsor £2,000
We need a sponsor who would be happy to cover the cost of the awards, certificates and vests that are presented to the participants in these national finals. In return, your brand will be acknowledged as the Awards Sponsor, your name announced throughout the evening’s proceedings and there will be an opportunity to present some of the awards you have sponsored. You will also have a table for ten people, along with a three-course meal.
Programme Sponsor £2,000
We are looking for a sponsor for the production of our event programme. In return for your sponsorship you will receive
• Full acknowledgement as our programme sponsor with your brand and logo displayed on the front of the event programme.
• Your name announced as our programme sponsor during the evening.
• Opportunity to present some awards to boxers.
• A table for ten people and a three-course meal at the event. Other sponsorship opportunities. Tables & tickets Bout sponsorship £500 per bout You may not want to sponsor any part of the event, but you can still support the show, have a great night out and help young people and volunteers in the You could sponsor one of the bouts. Have your name listed as the most deprived parts of Greater Manchester. sponsor in the programme and your name announced as the bout You can do this by coming along to the event. sponsor before and after the bout. Included in the fee is a table for ten people and a three-course meal. You can come as an individual and just watch the boxing, have a meal as part of your night out or come as a group. Prices are as follows: Programme advertisements Table for ten people £650 Why not support our event by taking out an advert in the event (with three-course meal) programme. Full and half-page advertisements are available. Individual at a table £80 (with three-course meal) Prices are as follows: Full page advert £200 Boxing Only Adults £15 Half page advert £150 U18’s £5 What are you supporting? Craig’s Story Craig became a member of St John’s ABC in Chorlton. You may think that you are supporting or sponsoring a Boxing Show, helping to fund a prestigious national Boxing Final. And, you are. Your He’d not had an easy start in life, being fostered by Barnardo’s. funds help to make a great event for the participants of this national But his foster mother sent him along to the club one evening. boxing final- we want it to be an event that the winner and runner up He really enjoyed the training and the camaraderie. He had one or two will remember for the rest of their lives. competitive bouts, but the competitive side of things didn’t appeal to him. But, your support for this event is helping to support much more than He continued training and as he got a little older he started to help out at the that. gym. Helping around and about, but also starting to get involved in sessions In recent years, government cuts (local and national), have resulted in leading the young boxers in the gym. He did some qualifications and started to almost every local youth centre being closed down and youth work do more. posts slashed. As well as helping out, he also started to get involved in some of the activities By and large, the only youth services now available in our most that Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Manchester were running such as taster deprived communities are run by local volunteers. events, residentials and so on. We support many of those local, voluntary run Boys & Girls clubs and A key event was a Young Leader Training Weekend. “This was the beginning of youth centres. life changing process for me.” Says Craig. “Although I suppose it started when I Any funds raised as part of this event will help us to provide positive first went to the gym, this weekend was about having a purpose in your life, activities for the young people that attend those Boys & Girls clubs, setting goals and putting a plan in place to achieve it. At the end of the weekend, helping to keep them off the streets at night where they are in very we were told about an opportunity to take part in an exchange with Boys & Girls real danger of crime, anti-social behaviour and sexual abuse. Clubs of America. My club leader encouraged me to apply and I was accepted. For three-weeks, I volunteered and experienced real life in America and at the Funds will help provide training, support and advice for the volunteers local Boys & Girls Club in Spokane, Washington state. It was life-changing as it that help to run the clubs and lead activities. opened my eyes to the world and what I could actually do and achieve. From We help to make a positive difference in the lives of individual young then, I decided to do something with my life, other than sit in my room on my people and the wider community. Playstation. We have been making a difference for 110-years. I am now a dog handler in the army. I have a wife and two children of my own. Thank you for helping us to continue to make a difference. But I probably wouldn’t have any of this if it wasn’t for the support of my boxing club, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Manchester and also the National Karen Wilson Association.” Chair of the Trustees - Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Manchester. Craig - St John’s ABC in Chorlton (dog handler, husband and father) BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER NABGC Class D Boxing Final - Sponsorship Prospectus
For more information about our sponsorship opportunities please contact Andy Hamill TEL: 0161 660 4091 EMAIL: [email protected]