Welcome to the section of the website which profiles some of the great businesses we work with and how you can become involved with the Youth Sport Trust.
We have a number of options to engage with the Youth Sport Trust. From large scale corporate sponsorship to being an exhibitor at one of our conferences, we can offer a package to suit your organisation, budget, CSR policy and your values.
Our partnerships are dynamic and not only offer commercial benefits, they can help position your organisation at the hub of the education market.
At all levels businesses wanting to engage and tailor their offering to better meet the needs of the education markets can contribute and add value to the work of the Trust. Over the pages in this section you will find more detail on the types of engagement we have with businesses, as well as being able to see who our current supporters are.
Please browse the pages within this section of the site and see examples of how we work and the flagship exhibitions which are an integral and highly valued part of our conferences. If you have any questions or want to explore specifics as to how you can become involved please email business@youthsporttrust.org.
Our thanks go to the very many businesses whose continued support has been a great help to us over the years. Together we can continue to help build a brighter future for thousands of young people through sport.
Sue Barratt
Head of Business Development
Corporate Partners
A key factor of our success is the support we receive from our corporate partners. Every strategic partnership is different and is developed over time to meet mutually beneficial objectives. We value the expertise and skills that each of our partners offer, as well as the financial support to help us build on existing programmes and develop exciting new initiatives. For further information on our current Corporate Partners click here.
Supporting Partners
This is a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with the Youth Sport Trust, to develop bespoke programmes which encompass the core objectives of the Trust whilst simultaneously meeting the business objectives of the Partner. The cementing of the relationship will lead to enhanced benefits ranging from a joint communications strategy to access to the Youth Sport Trust’s extensive expertise. Each Supporting Partner will have their own Strap line and be marketed across the Trust as our valued Partner in this field. Put simply it’s about harnessing the synergy between two brands to create compelling initiatives in a dynamic marketplace to improve the lives of young people.
The classic profile of a company attaining this accreditation is one who currently has a portfolio of projects across the Trust and typically would be a supporting sponsor at one of our conferences.
The opportunity to become a Supporting Partner is by invitation only.
Affiliation Partner
Affiliation Partnership membership offers you the opportunity to enhance your Business Honours Club membership and make a direct marketing offer to the 350 Sports Colleges affiliated to the Youth Sport Trust. We work directly with our Affiliation Partners to help raise their profile in the network and promote their offer to schools.
You must be an existing Business Honours Club member to be become an Affiliation Partner.
By becoming an Affiliation Partner you will receive the following benefits:
- A link to your homepage from our website and full details of your product offer on the School Sport Xchange;
- A regularly updated database of Affiliated school members;
- A full colour feature about your company and benefit offering in the Sports Colleges Affiliation members’ handbook;
- Use of the Youth Sport Trust Affiliation Partner logo;
- Promotion of the Affiliation membership by the Youth Sport Trust in our range of communication mediums,
- Invites to exclusive Affiliation events.
For further information on our current Affiliate Partners click here.
Business Honours Club
The Business Honours Club places you at the heart of our school sport network through exclusive access to our databases, use of our logo, networking opportunities and many more benefits Membership to the Business Honours Club and use of the logo offers business a badge of integrity and reassures those in the education market that you are a business they can trust. We also work with you to identify opportunities to be involved in our development projects and programmes.
The Business Honours Club offers market knowledge, substantial discounts, information on government developments and priority access to sponsorship and networking opportunities. It is a quality, cost effective and timely marketing service.
We actively promote the Business Honours Club throughout the school sport network, via our events, website, publications, and on our Xchange site. Other benefits in the current Business Honours Package include:
- Use of the Business Honours Club Youth Sport Trust logo;
- Priority notification of the sale of Sports Colleges Conference Exhibition places plus 50% discount off an exhibition space;
- Listing in our Exhibitor Directory as a Business Honours Club member;
- Presence in our online supplier directory, featuring information about your company, your company logo and a link to your website;
- An exclusive opportunity to exhibit at our Schools and Sports Partnerships Conference Exhibition;
- Two free places at our winter and summer seminars, hosted by Youth Sport Trust staff and relevant external parties;
- Two free places at our exclusive dinner before the Specialist Sports Colleges Conference Exhibition featuring a celebrity speaker;
- Priority access to a programme of sponsorship events including Affiliation Partnership;
- Access to the ‘members only’ area of the website.
The Club runs from September each year in line with the academic year. The Club is fully subscribed at present, but you can register your interest for 2008-2009 membership by email. Click here to see our current members.
Business Associates
Becoming a Business Associate gives you entry level membership with the potential opportunity to progress through the club. Business Associate level gives you valuable market knowledge and access to further commercial benefits. Enrolling as a Business Associate gives a business the chance to understand more fully the working of the Youth Sport Trust and vice versa it allows us to begin discussions as to if and how we can engage and work more closely.
To see a list of current Business Associates, please click here.
What next?
As you can hopefully begin to appreciate there are a variety of ways the Youth Sport Trust engages with businesses. Underpinning all of our relationships is an agreed ethos and signing up to the core objectives of the Youth Sport Trust work is a fundamental first step following which there is undoubtedly a way we can work together.
If you would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact us by email: business@youthsporttrust.org.