SPONSOR THE BAND

As with many Brass Bands, Downshire Brass are entirely self-supporting and rely on income generated from concerts and fund-raising activities to cover capital expenditure costs. Costs include hall rental, new instruments, conductors fees, insurance, new music, music stands and competition fees. We are always on the lookout for a sponsor and if you or your company could help, we would love to hear from you.

Types of sponsorship could include:

• Full band sponsorship
  Incorporating your company's name into the Band's name e.g. Downshire Brass <Your Company> Band and corporate support from the band with regards to fund raising for your nominated charity. This would also involve advertising your company's support on this website, all band promotional materials (concerts and programmes, press releases etc)
• Sponsoring a Player
  For a donation to the Band, your company could sponsor a player. You choose the player and your company will be shown on this website as supporting that player
• Sponsoring a Concert
  Your company would be publicised by the band as kindly supporting the concert, together with programme, ticket and presentation advertising at concert venues of your choice. The band will be 20 years old in 2010. It would be appropriate to perhaps have a special concert. This may involve the cost of engaging special guest soloists.
• Sponsoring a programme
  Your company would have their contact details mentioned several times in one of our many capacity crowd audiences.
• Insurance Sponsorship
  The band need to insure instruments as well as having public liability sponsorship
• Concert Sponsorship
  Your company would be publicised by the band as kindly supporting the concert, together with programme, ticket and presentation advertising at concert venues of your choice
• Music Folder Sponsorship
  Which involves replacing the existing folders with new ones, which should last for over seven years, with your corporate sponsorship on the cover.
• Music Composition Sponsorship
  This would involve commissioning an arrangement or composition by any of the Band's Arrangers or Composers-in-Residence, the resultant piece being bannered with your sponsorship and performed in public
• Recording Sponsorship
  The cost of producing a number of CDs would be sponsored, with the result showing sponsorship advertising, naming of the recording and/or part-selection of programme music
• Music Stand Sponsorship
  Where the cost of replacing music stands with new ones is sponsored. Your corporate logo would be displayed on the web site and any literature that the band produce
• Transport Sponsorship
  Where a van or box trailer purchase or coach transport is sponsored, advertising acknowledgements would be given
• Junior Band Sponsorship
  Where the cost of running the junior band would be sponsored, this would include  any new instruments, music, music folders which would have the sponsors logo, as well as the fees the band incur when members enter the annual solo and quartet contest. The junior band can perform at engagements with the sponsors name incorporated.
• Other Sponsorship Arrangements
  As necessary and practical

If you are interested in discussing sponsorship opportunities with the band or indeed have further queries, please contact our chairman Gary Dodsworth (details available on our Contacts page).