Welcome to Off the Shelf 2010
9 October - 30 October 2010
Sponsors and Supporters
Off the Shelf would like to thank the following organisations for their sponsorship and support.
What can Off the Shelf offer your company?
Sheffield's Off the Shelf Festival of Writing and Reading is now in it's 18th year and is well established as one of the region's cultural calendar. The Festival continues to grow in size, prestige and popularity and is one of the largest Festivals in the North of England. The Festival is recognised by Arts Council England, Yorkshire as one of the key literature events in the region. The Festival has an excellent reputation and is able to attract some of the best known names in literature and media to Sheffield each year. Previous Festivals have included appearances by Kate Adie, Stephen Fry, Nick Hornby, Simon Armitage, Doris Lessing, Michael Palin, Jamie Oliver, Ian Rankin, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters and Benjamin Zephaniah, to name just a few.
By sponsoring Off the Shelf you can be associated with a prestigious and popular Festival offering a high quality, exciting and wide ranging programme of events.
Each year the Festival attracts over 18,000 people with the audience figure growing each year. A further estimated 100,000 people view Festival displays and exhibitions. We attract excellent audiences with many of our events selling out. Our audiences are loyal, diverse, cover all age ranges from the very young upwards and, where some literature events attract a primarily female audience, we have an almost 50/50 gender split. We receive a large amount of very positive feedback each year. Our mailing list of keen and regular attenders contains over 5,000 names.
In the audience survey carried out at the 2008 Festival, 95% thought that the event attended was good or excellent, 94% thought it offered excellent or good value for money and 95% rated the quality of the overall Festival programme excellent or good. In addition 32% attended more than one event and 22% attended five or more events.
Forty thousand full colour brochures are distributed across Sheffield and the region and, via the mailing list, countywide. We also produce full colour posters and flyers for individual events. Our website receives a huge number of hits throughout the year and we attract a large amount of press coverage.
Off the Shelf offers great value for money with a wide range of sponsorship packages available. For example, Silver Sponsorship of a major Festival event, priced at only £1,000 plus VAT, offers acknowledgement of sponsorship in the brochure, on tickets and on posters and flyers, an advertisement within the brochure, complimentary tickets, acknowledgement of sponsorship on the Off the Shelf website, additional marketing opportunities. We can also organise corporate entertainment for your clients at events. We are known for our imaginative programming and can create an event within the Festival linked to your company brand or targeting a particular audience or community. We can also organise creative and stimulating workshops for your workforce. We are happy to meet with sponsors to discuss specific aims and ideas.
We are delighted to confirm that The Star are once again Gold Sponsor of the Festival which enables us to offer Silver Sponsors and above the added benefit of a quarter page special promotion or a Star Member's Zone promotion.
If you would like to find out more about sponsorship opportunities with the Off the Shelf Festival of Writing and Reading please do not hesitate to contact Lesley Webster, Maria de Souza or Su Walker on 0114 273 4716 / 273 4400.
Off the Shelf is organised by the Culture Department of Sheffield City Council.
Rhyme and Reason - Specialists in children's books will provide bookstalls at all events during the Festival.
If you are unable to attend an event in person, Rhyme and Reason can organise for signed copies to be reserved. Please e-mail or tel. 0114 266 1950 for information.
e-mail enquiries@rhyme-reason.co.uk
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