As a not-for-profit professional body that has traditionally relied on membership fees as a primary revenue stream, the DMA was keen to find alternative sources of funding to help deliver further value to its members. Slingshot Sponsorship has done an exceptional job in helping us to realise the value of our media assets through sponsorship funding by helping us to reach out and form long-term brand relationships. We have been able to achieve this lucrative funding at no extra operational cost, which enables us to provide even more services to our members than would otherwise be possible.
Mike Lordan, Chief of Operations, Direct Marketing Association UK
UK AWARE offers unique sponsorship rights – Slingshot Sponsorship offers a professional and unique service.
From the start, Slingshot Sponsorship have understood UK AWARE’s position, done their homework on our market and worked patiently with us to develop an appropriate sponsorship rights offering. Slingshot is acting as the sole sponsorship agency for UK AWARE as I believe that the Slingshot team will work with the integrity and hunger needed to succeed in representing a growing Social Enterprise in this economic climate.
Danny Carnegie, Founder, UK AWARE
We’re very pleased to be working with Slingshot Sponsorship. Sponsorship is vital to the IDM, not only to help us continue to deliver the very best professional development programmes for marketers, but, crucially, to help fund the charitable IDM Education Programme. Without it, we’d be unable to continue our essential work with UK universities and ensure that a stream of bright young graduates continue to enter the direct and digital profession.
Lisa Turner, Marketing Director, The Institute of Direct Marketing
We have appointed the Slingshot Sponsorship agency because of their proven experience in building brand engagement campaigns within sponsorship. We are delighted to be working with them across a range of our activities including events and sponsorship – specifically our newest event The London Irish Big 5.
Felicity Greenland, Marketing and Events Director, London Irish Rugby Club
As an organisation with a large in-house sales team, it was a big leap of faith for Haymarket to turn to an agency for the selling of sponsorship around the What Car? Awards. However, Slingshot has proved that acquiring and managing sponsors is a specialist skill that needs an expert approach. In our first year we have gone from having one sponsor to nine. Not only has it been a commercial success, but we have sponsors who are driving real value out of their partnerships with What Car? and we are creating meaningful relationships with businesses who we have not previously worked with.
We have been absolutely delighted with Slingshot, and would not hesitate to recommend them.
Andrew Golby, Publishing Director of What Car?, Haymarket Consumer Media
Jackie combines a desire to keep innovating and improving with an attention to detail and a real drive to deliver. All of this is supported by her ability to build great working relationships and an instinctive understanding of shared goals. I look forward to working with her more in the future.
Alex Ricketts, Market Development Manager, Royal Mail
Having worked with Jackie for a number of years, she has consistently managed to provide best value from our relationship with the DMA. Through her innovative approach, Jackie consistently delivers new, often unexpected, opportunities to help promote our business and is a real pleasure to work with.
Fraser Church, Head of Creative Development, dsicmm Ltd
Jackie is a hard hitting, true professional who strives to get sometimes complicated and time consuming jobs done – on budget and on time with natural project management skills and deep rooted knowledge of her industry and contacts. It is always a pleasure to work side by side with such a motivated and hardworking personality and her team.
Matt Edgar, Founder, Global Marketing Alliance; Publisher, Direct Marketing International
Slingshot Sponsorship have taught ONEPOST everything they know about corporate sponsorship. Attention to detail in the planning process and consistent support have enabled ONEPOST to really maximise the value of sponsorship within its marketing strategy.
Luan Wise, Marketing Manager, ONEPOST
We’ve had a great first year working with Slingshot, who have delivered some excellent sponsorship deals for us in 2011. We are now looking forward to bigger and better for 2012 and delivering some amazing events with Slingshot’s help.
Leo Visconti, Head of Corporate Development, Mencap
Jackie and the Slingshot team have become an indispensable part of our extended marketing team. Our relationship with Slingshot entails their management of several key areas of our UK event marketing efforts. Jackie and her team have a meticulous eye for detail and produce consistently solid results. Over the course of 2011 and 2012, Slingshot will help Silverpop execute on more than 20 key events across the UK. And, from my experience with Jackie and her team, each will be done flawlessly.
For every company, there is a list of “favourite” vendors — Slingshot is one of mine.
Richard Evans, Director of Marketing – EMEA, Silverpop
Thank you so much for the very very useful and practical session yesterday at the Slingshot Sponsorship Boot Camp.
We’ve got lots of work to do now, and you’ve inspired us and given us the ideas and the tools to go forward. I hope we’ll be able to continue to work with you and Slingshot Sponsorship well into the future.
Ruth Staunton, Group Marketing Manager, BMJ Group
The Slingshot Sponsorship Boot Camp helped us in more ways than just sponsorship. Incredibly tailored to our business objectives, we uncovered opportunities we hadn’t even thought of. Since the session we landed our first sponsor!
We’d highly recommend anyone who is thinking of getting started in sponsorship to first take the Boot Camp session with Slingshot.
Matt Crowther, Founder, Ibiza Delivers
Slingshot Sponsorship first came in to meet me in May with a couple of sponsorship opportunities… within a month we had a partnership under way and a very happy client! Slingshot as a company are a group of very creative and hard working individuals…. I have never once had an email go unanswered, and have never had to chase them. The standard of their output is very impressive, and each proposal has hit the spot in terms of reach, accessibility and most importantly budget.
Jules Grudniewicz, Strategic Partnership Manager, Zenith Optimedia
Sponsorship is a new to Cancer Recovery and we want to make
sure we’re fully prepared to achieve maximum impact for us and our sponsors, right from the very beginning. Slingshot helped us to look at how to reduce costs through partnerships and target alternative sources of funding. These are essential to our survival as a charity as we face increased demand for our services.
With our new sponsorship platforms and exciting projects happening next year, we found the Boot Camp helped us to identify the right potential sponsors who can help us build campaign awareness in addition to providing much needed financial support. The Boot Camp helped us to appreciate our assets, and have confidence in the value of what we can offer. There is now a real sense of excitement around the office as to what we can achieve. Roll on 2012!
Hannah, Director, Cancer Recovery Foundation
The Slingshot Boot Camp has been an inspiration. Our approach
to sponsorship has been completely refreshed and we can’t wait to start. We now have the specific skills and inside knowledge to attract the sponsors a regional music festival like ours needs.
Liz Pickering, Marketing Manager, Orchestra in a Field
