Sponsorship Packages
"Partnership | Brand Awareness | Great PR | Exposure | Audience Engagement"
We offer a wide selection of sponsorship packages that act as an ideal way to expose you or your company to all the many thousands of visitors each year we attract to our popular venue. Please find these packages listed below and feel free to contact us at anytime to discuss them more detail.
For further information on any of the packages please contact either:
Sunil Kalyan
Business and Hospitality Manager
t: 01234 718044
t: 07795 623698
e: sunil.kalyan@bedford.gov.uk
Emma Richards
Marketing and Events
t: 01234 718044
e: emma.richards@bedford.gov.uk
Friends of Bedford Corn Exchange Package
The Friend’s package gives an opportunity to support local audiences. The benefits of the Friend’s involvement include:- Company logo on all promotional material
- Quarterly newsletters to all Friend’s
- 12 tickets a year for BCEX presents shows
- Direct link from the Bedford Corn Exchange website to your company’s homepage
- Great social media exposure.
£500 + VAT per year
Other packages & contact
Sponsor a Dressing Room
The benefits of sponsoring a dressing room:- Company name on a brass plate for all 3 dressing rooms
- Display board in each dressing room with your company information
- Positive exposure both local and national.
£500 + VAT per year
Other packages & contact
Show Tickets
The benefits of advertising on the back of show tickets:- 50,000 pre printed tickets = 1 years advertising
- Previous sponsors have included McDonalds & Subway
- Over 45,000 customer base
- Captive audience.
£1,900 + VAT
Other packages & contact
Ticket Wallets
The benefits of ticket wallet advertising:- 15,000 ticket wallets printed = 1 years advertising
- 130+ shows per year
- Tickets sold for other venues in Bedfordshire.
- Captive audience.
½ DL £250 + VAT per year
1 DL £500 + VAT per year
Seasonal Brochure
The benefits of advertising in the seasonal brochure:- 8,000 copies per season (3 seasons per year)
- Downloadable website version
- Company logo on the front of the brochure
- Full page advert in brochure
- Website link
- Excellent distribution including through Get Smart and direct mail
- E-shots sent to 1,800+ members including a direct link to your company website
- Great social media exposure.
£1,200 + VAT
Other packages & contact
Website Banner
The benefits of website banners:- High web traffic - over 88,000 visits per annum
- Banner linked directly to your company’s website
- Prominent position on Bedford Corn Exchange homepage
- Unique visitors.
One month £200 + VAT
Three month £600 + VAT
Banner Site
The benefits of a banner displayed at St Paul’s Square or Harpur Square:- High footfall
- Town centre location
- High traffic volume at locations
- High traffic passing by
- 24 hour advertsing.
£50 per week + VAT
£150 per month + VAT
Facilities Advertising
The benefits of facilities advertising:- High footfall, estimated at 350,000 visitors per year
- Captive audience
- 50 display locations including cloakrooms and toilets in the Corn Exchange, Howard Room and Harpur Suite.
One month £300 + VAT
Four months £600 + VAT
(Price includes all 50 display locations)
Full Season Comedy Clubs
The benefits of sponsoring Bedford’s Comedy Club:- Logo on all publicity
- Banner location
- Website links
- Regular sell out shows
- 8 shows per year
- Promotional literature can be displayed within the Harpur Suite
- Two complimentary tickets per show for the full year
- Great social media exposure.
£800 + VAT
Other packages & contact
Pre Recorded Messages
The benefits of pre recorded messages:- 130 shows per year
- Captive audience
- Target market shows
- 3 messages per show.
£150 per month + VAT
(Offers available for longer periods
if requested.)
Bedford: Bamberg Spring Fest
The benefits of becoming the main sponsor of Bedford: Bamberg Spring Fest:- Private reception for up to 100 guests
- Logo on all publicity material, including local advertising
- Display area throughout the event in the Harpur Suite
- Links to website
- Great social media exposure.
£950 + VAT
(Additional advertising is negotiable for example branded
pop up event banners.)
Bedford Comedy & Short Film Festival
Bedford Comedy and Film Festival will be returning in September 2013 over a two week period. If you are interested in sponsoring this amazing event check out the benefits below:
Main Sponsorship Package
- Your logo and company details printed in the festival programme
- Your logo present on the Bedford Corn Exchange website
- Your logo printed on all advertising placed in relation to the event, including local newspaper adverts and external banners
- Your logo printed on the back of all tickets issued approximately three weeks prior to the festival (including festival tickets)
- An opportunity to display banners outside the festival venues and the display of posters and fliers inside the festival venues prior, during and after the festival
- Up to 5 complimentary tickets to each festival event
- Company name printed on the back of festival T-Shirts worn throughout the event by venue staff.