Benefits
Why be a Sponsor?
- Dragon
Boat racing, the ultimate team sport, is growing exponentially in corporate
and community centres world-wide
- Annual
growth rate of 30 - 40%
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Fantastic scope for corporate team building and promotion
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Untapped and uncluttered community marketing opportunity
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Extremely high on the "Fun, Friendship and Fitness" scale
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Visually spectacular, exciting split-second finishes
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Personal satisfaction; great corporate team development
- Support
key community objectives
Association with a positive local community development
programme -
Proceeds from this event will
be turned back to the people of the Carleton Place area through support of The
Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital, as well as through the Civitan
Club, High School Bursaries and other charities facilitating the active
participation of various community groups in the Festival.
Support the work of local charities and non-profits
- As a good corporate citizen, you value the ways that these groups and
service clubs benefit your community.
Involvement of your company and employees in community
building
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Develop a sense of
belonging/ownership in a major community activity for your firm and its
personnel.
Association with a popular summertime recreational event for the people in your
community -
The Festival has the potential
to become a family fun day for everyone. It will help to make the Carleton Place
area a better place to be and to live.
Publicity -
There will be various
promotional opportunities within the scope of this event.
Market Exposure
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There is the potential for 40 teams plus the attendant support,
as well as a large number of spectators at the Festival to receive your message
(total of some 1500 people). These teams will be from Carleton Place and the
surrounding area, with some teams coming from other areas of the province,
Montreal and the Outaouis.
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