With Aurora's shareholders keen to contribute to valuable sponsorship and fundraising events a policy and process for evaluation was put in place in 2004. In January each year members of the Aurora board meet to consider all relevant proposals submitted throughout the year and determine the strategy for the year ahead
Every sponsorship opportunity is reviewed on a case-by-case basis. If the opportunity meets the guidelines that we have established for sponsorships, limited contra support may be possible. We certainly like to help where we can.
For initial contact, please fill out the Sponsorship Application Form, outlining the event and/or request. Please try to be as specific as you can, detailing in full what the event and/or request is, and in turn, what will be provided to Aurora Spa Retreat as part of the sponsorship arrangement. Key elements of your proposal should include:
- What is the concept/event/request?
- When will the concept/event be taking place? i.e. What are relevant dates?
- What/who is your target market?
- What form and level of support are you seeking from Aurora Spa Retreat ?
- What are the benefits that you propose to return to Aurora Spa Retreat?
Full details of the benefits that you suggest could be provided in return for our support should be outlined. You should provide details in relation to any proposed media/advertising schedule, along with details of signage, size and placement of logo, hospitality etc. Please keep in mind that we like to pursue opportunities that deliver positive exposure for Aurora Spa Retreat.
We'll try our best to respond via return email within 2 weeks to your request. Please be patient if the response to your request takes a little longer than expected as we receive many requests each month and it does take time to thoroughly review and assess all opportunities. We ask that you keep any “follow up” phone calls to a minimum as this distracts us from our core task of reviewing and responding to you as quickly as we can.
All sponsorship opportunities are assessed on a case by case basis, however, to help you in putting together your proposal, some general guidelines are outlined below:
What Do We Offer?
We do not provide any cash support. All sponsorship opportunities involve contra i.e. Gift Vouchers or Gift Packages for redemption at Aurora Spa Retreat
Community Fundraising
Fundraising is an integral part of the activities undertaken by many schools, churches, Societies, Clubs and community organizations. The majority of requests sent to us relate to this type of fundraising. While we would like to be able to help all of you, we obviously cannot and as we find it difficult to justify assisting one without assisting all requests we're unable to donate goods or services for fetes, trivia nights, auctions etc. at this time.
We look favourably on proposals that:
- Benefit a bona fide charity organisation.
- Include other like-minded companies that fit well together as part of the one concept (i.e. supports the Aurora Spa Retreat brand).
- Would benefit significantly from our involvement rather than it just being a small component of the overall proposal.
- Provides Aurora Spa Retreat with significant and valuable return for assistance.
So, if you think you have a really great event that Aurora Spa Retreat should be involved in, please lodge a Sponsorship Application Form, being sure to provide as much detail as possible.
Being a small to medium sized business with just the one facility based in Melbourne we hope you understand the importance of being strategic with the contribution we hope to make to our community.
Thank you
The Sponsorship Team
