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It's summer. First: take a vacation. Second: use summer time to get ahead in your planning. In this episode of The Fundraising Elevator we talk budget cycles, sponsor solicitation and somtimes less is more.

Learn how you can be successful with the Basketball Slam Fundraiser by checking out this video!

🏒 Hockey Players: Beyond the Rink, Your Impact Matters! Here are 2 Easy Ways to Make a Positive Difference: 1. **Community Engagement:** Get involved in your local community. Host youth clinics, charity events, or volunteer your time to inspire the next generation of players. 2. **Mentorship and Leadership:** Share your knowledge and leadership skills on and off the ice. Mentor younger players, instill teamwork values, and foster a culture of respect. Remember, your influence extends far beyond the game. Let's make a difference together! 🌎🤝 #HockeyImpact #PositiveChange"

🏆 Ready for a new challenge? Join our Monthly Built Environment FPL League and compete for fantastic MONTHLY prizes! Introducing our exciting new twist on the Fantasy Premier League. Starting this month, we're offering monthly prizes to the top 3 points scorers! Whether you're a seasoned manager or just getting started, everyone has a shot at glory. This is on top of the current prizes of 2x UCL Final tickets at Wembley* for 1st place, 2x FA Cup Final* tickets for 2nd place, and 2x Community Shield tickets* for 3rd place. How does it work? 📅 Each month is a clean slate. Your points for that month determine your ranking. 🥇 The top manager of the month wins a fantastic prize. 🥈 Second and third place also claim fantastic rewards. Not only that, but each month we will be donating to one of the sponsoring charities 🤝 Want to be a part of the action? It's not too late to join our league! Sign up now and be in with a chance to win: https://adexon.carrd.co/ Don't miss out on the chance to claim monthly glory, test your FPL skills, and compete with fellow professionals in the Built Environment sector. Who's up for the challenge? 🙌⚽   * Subject to availability #FPL #FantasyFootball #BuiltEnvironment #Competition #MonthlyPrizes

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How's this for squad goals? The Football Foundation are providing grants to help cover the costs towards new 11v11, 9v9 or mini soccer goalposts. Find out if you are eligible and learn more about how we can help you secure funding to help your club grow ▶️ bit.ly/HFA-FF24

How's this for squad goals? The Football Foundation are providing grants to help cover the costs towards new 11v11, 9v9 or mini soccer goalposts. Find out if you are eligible and learn more about how we can help you secure funding to help your club grow ▶️ bit.ly/HFA-FF24

It's National Volunteers Week so here's a little story for you.... One of my voluntary roles is the dream job of being Team Manager for my youngest son's rugby team (Pentyrch RFC Under 8s - soon to be Under 9s) One of our coaches got some great raffle prizes for us (a kicking session with Jonny Wilkinson) to raise money for our first tour next year.... I knew Raffall was an online raffle platform as I'd bought tickets on there previously, so I started setting up the raffle but wasn't enjoying the experience, it was a bit clunky... I google'd something like 'Raffall alternatives' and came across Raffaly - a new alternative with ✅ cheaper fees (great for charities where every penny counts!) ✅ guest checkout (making it much easier to buy raffle tickets - higher conversion and sales) Unfortunately I hit some stumbling blocks and page errors. I was on a hard deadline to get the raffle live as I was going on holiday the next day, so I put it live on Raffall but I emailed my bugs and feedback to Raffaly. The founder Liam Walder emailed me back the next day, he'd fixed all the bugs I'd found and thanked me for letting him know.... So, in summary: 1 - You might not have the desire, or time, to volunteer.... 2 - But you can still do good by helping new/small businesses grow by giving them free feedback on your experience and/or sharing them with others - Kindness helps the world go round! 3 - if you'd like to buy raffle tickets to support our team I'd be super grateful (link in original post that I've shared!) #VolunteersWeek #NationalVolunteersWeek #Raffle #RugbyIsLife #RugbyFamily ________________________________________________________________ I'm Heledd and I offer: 🤩 Fractional and Interim Marketing Leadership and Support 🤩 Marketing auditing and consultancy, especially on the Digital Marketing Side 🤩 Training, coaching and mentoring

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Twickenham is no more as Allianz takes over naming rights?!?! I'm sorry but this is possibly one of the worst sponsorship decisions I've ever seen, even (more so!) for Allianz! Twickenham is iconic: "HQ", "the home of rugby", it's the world's biggest rugby stadium, a historic ground that goes back well over 100 years. It's a name known not just throughout English or even world rugby, but throughout the population. A day at Twickenham is an experience that appeals to casual sports fans and even those who aren't into sport. There's endless invaluable brand value and recognition tied up in that. There are numerous Allianz stadiums already. Rugby desperately needs to bring corporate money in to save the sport we love, as it struggles more than ever with financial pressures. But a corporation having the arrogance to use that desperation to insist on erasing a name that is at the heart of English rugby really feels like holding the RFU over a barrel. It screams disrespect and feels grubby from Allianz Insurance. The arrogance and short-sightedness of "our terms or stick it" aggression (which feels like it's not doing much to rehabilitate the perception of the finance sector either). I know brands need to feel they're getting the max ROI for their money. However, I would have liked to have thought a company of Allianz 's size and experience in sports sponsorship would have a little more imagination and PR sense in how to do that appropriately, understanding the culture of the sport you are shoehorning yourself into. Obviously no one will ever ever ever use the phrase "Allianz stadium", apart from the media who will be contractually obliged to (and no doubt will be washing their mouths out with bleach immediately afterwards) so it's hard to really see what they're gaining from kicking off a major sponsorship deal by having hundreds of thousands of fans hating them. I'm not against naming rights in sport at all - it's been an essential lifeline for many clubs across different sports - but it needs to respect the history of the ground when that's significant. In those circumstances, adding a brand name onto an existing name, at most. "Allianz Twickenham" would have worked better and even given extra value to Allianz through the direct word association with the Twickenham brand qualities - history, credibility, quality. It's ironic that Allianz, while claiming to have the community and grassroots of rugby as it's priority, is demonstrating that it actually has no understanding or respect for the game at all and a focus on nothing but their leadership's ego. There was an opportunity here for Allianz to be praised as a saviour of English rugby, instead, I'm seeing rugby fans saying "anyone but Allianz" as a result of this. What a way to make sure your big deal gets tackled to the ground before it's anywhere near the try line! #sponsorship #sport #sportsponsorship #Twickenham #Allianz #AllianzInsurance England Rugby