Sports Council seeks sponsors for new bus

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Four and a half years after purchasing a brand new mini bus South Kintyre Sports Council received delivery of their replacement mini bus in October 2012 which will continue to support local sports club in South Kintyre to travel throughout Scotland as part.

In March 2008, following a two year campaign raising just over £24,000, the local Sports Council were delighted to take delivery of their new 17 seater Ford Transit mini bus. This provided a vital transport option to the Sports Council members which was missing for over 4 years in the town. To ensure the Sports Council didn’t end up in the same position the Committee put together a business model plan to work on replacing the mini bus in 4 or 5 years time. This centred round income from hires, fundraising and most importantly the sale of advertising space on the bus itself. Five local companies agreed to a three year sponsorship deal in return for advertising space on the bus. This sponsorship was fundamental to raising funds, along with the sale of the original mini bus, to replace it with a brand new 17 seater Ford Transit Mini Bus thus guaranteeing the Sports Council’s member clubs with transport for the next 5 years.

Such was the success of the original replacement mini bus scheme that the Sports Council will use this same business model for the new bus and are now calling on any local business who wishes to support the mini bus to sponsor the mini bus. In return businesses will receive advertising space on the mini bus, recognition locally and on the internet as well as knowing they are supporting all types of sports clubs in South Kintyre.

Prices have been reduced to £300.00 and £150.00

Mini Bus is used by various Sports in the area from Rugby, Football, Golf, Darts, Bowls, Swimming, Dancers, Running Clubs, Junior and Senior Schools and Supporter Clubs.

If interested please contact catriona.mclean@hotmail.com or mcaulay76@aol.com

This is from our archives which highlights the magnificent campaign by the Sports Council to replace the bus back in 2008.

It is easy to forget the huge effort by the community to help raise just under £25,000 and put a brand new mini bus back on the road to support the transportation of our local sports clubs. However, with the launch of our new website this gave us the perfect chance to reflect on the efforts and remind everyone of what a truly generous and inspiring community we live in! As you will see from the list below you will read the wide variety of ways money was raised from grants to prize bingo, competitions to random donations - all together quite amazing!

Many thanks to the Kintyre Forum members who contributed!

To read the full article please see http://www.southkintyresportscouncil.co ... /index.htm

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At the moment we have 3 Main Sponsers but hopefully after reading report on Forum and facebook more Sponsers will come forward. Bus is used nearly every weekend and goes all over the country so will be good advertising for your company.