WELLINGBOROUGH

                 We need your help to keep our Carnival alive!

The three ways you can get involved as a business are:

Taking Part in the Parade
As well as inviting local schools, clubs and groups to take part in the parade, we would like to see local businesses taking part too.

General Business Support & Sponsorship
One of the carnival’s aims is to promote the town. Supporting the carnival will foster local good will, highlight the town as a good place to visit and live in, as well as promoting Wellingborough as a great place to conduct business in. We ask for your general support in helping to advertise the event by word of mouth, putting up posters, linking to our website, donating useful items etc.

There are specific Sponsorship Opportunities available to businesses as detailed below. These can be tailor-made to suit your company and your marketing plans

GOLD Sponsor – from £ 500

As a Gold Sponsor you will receive the following benefits:-

• Events Arena Sponsor – We will display your Banners & Posters on and around the events arena for the duration of the weekend
• Beer Tent Sponsor – We will display your Banners & Posters on and around the Beer Tent.
• Stage Sponsor – We will display your Banners & Posters on / near to the stage throughout
• We will use your name or logo on the official publicity materials at the event site.
• We will include your name or Logo on the carnival website, with a link to your website.
• You will be listed in the carnival day programme.
• Fee waived for the hire of a pitch/stall
• Your company name will be mentioned by our stage compares

SILVER Sponsors – £ 200

As a Silver Sponsor you will receive the following benefits:-

• We will use your name or logo on the official publicity materials at the event site. We will include your name or Logo on the carnival website, with a link to your website.
• You will be listed in the carnival day programme.
• We will in
• Fee waived for the hire of a pitch/stall

BRONZE Sponsors – £50

As a Bronze Sponsor you will receive the following benefits:-

• We will list your name or logo within the carnival day programme.
• Fee waived for the hire of a pitch/stall
• Your company will be listed on our website with a link to your website

Sponsorship will include the purchase of the carnival Court dresses and the decoration of the float on the day and for visiting other carnivals in the area.

 Please contact Sue Bull on 01933 231986 or email her if you can help in any way and to discuss other sponsorship opportunities and ideas

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Our grateful thanks to the following for their support

on Carnival Day

•    378 (Mannock) Squadron - Wellingborough Air Cadets

•    Beck Studios

     Billing Garden Village
•    Borough Council of Wellingborough
•    BBC Radio Northamptonshire
•    Chevron Ltd

     Connect FM
•    Dark and Light Photography
•    Doddington Road Service Station (now Broad Green Peugeot)n
•    Evening Telegraph

•    Herald and Post   

     Hornigold Haulage Ltd  

     Kettering Carnival Stewards 

•    Lawrence Wheeler Entertainment Agency
•    Longmarsh Ltd Wellingborough
•    Northamptonshire County Council
•    Northamptonshire Police
•    Pub Watch
•    Security - Shadow Protection Services Ltd
•    St John Ambulance - First Aid

     Swansgate Shopping Centre
•    Through The Eye Photography
•    Towability Ltd
•    Wellingborough Museum

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  Grant Funding in 2008
  Wellingborough Carnival received funding for the 100th Carnival
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  Bridges for Ethnic Minority Communities. £1,000 funded two workshops for disability groups to help them create their pieces and wear them in the parade. PHAB and The

  

  Kingsway Community Association both benefitted from this money.
  
  Funding was also received from Awards for All to the value of £9,625. This money was spent on workshops to create two big main frame costumes in the form of a rose to depict the beginnings of the carnival when it was called the Rose Day Parade and a big pink flamingo representing the old zoo.
  
  
  
  

  

  

   

   

  
  Children from Sir Christopher Hatton School were shown how to create their own costumes by carnival artists Rampage of Luton and walked in the parade behind the rose and flamingo.
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  The funding also helped fund a Youth Talent Competition and a Showcase of Acoustic Folk talent.
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  Grassroots gave the Carnival £2,000 towards lantern making workshops for the Parade of Lanterns in November.