Funding

Promotion, brochures, events and 'goody bags' (the Schools Nursery Open Day) for Guildford in Bloom are primarily funded by the main sponsor.  Additionally, twelve local companies fund the maintenance, signage and planting/replacement costs of roundabouts around the Borough by sponsoring them through Guildford in Bloom.  Funding is also achieved through the hire of hanging baskets and troughs.  The Greening the Borough Grants are sponsored by Syngenta, Burns and Webber (the main GiB sponsor) and DEPS (Guildford Borough Council).  Without their generous sponsorship and the sponsorship made by local businesses, the 'In Bloom' Campaign would not take place so effectively, if at all. 

The aim of raising sponsorship funding is to support the objectives of the In Bloom Campaign.

Thanks this year go to

Our main Sponsors

Money raised from sponsorship enables us to:

·         Support the Guildford in Bloom Campaign

·         Award grants to community groups and local schools for environmental projects

·         Improve the quality of the public environment

·         Promote and encourage community involvement in ‘greening the environment’.

Pewley Down Conservation Volunteers funded by GiB

Sponsorship Opportunities currently include:

·         Roundabout, shrub beds or herbaceous border Sponsorship

·         Commemorative bench sponsorship

·         Bulb planting

·         Tree sponsorship

·         Play equipment sponsorship

·         Hanging baskets/troughs.

Existing Sponsors include:

·         Sole Guildford in Bloom Sponsor

·         Approximately 800 hanging baskets around the town, of which 350 are sponsored by local businesses

·         National sponsor of Greening the Borough Grants

·         12 sponsored roundabouts generating approximately

·         Existing Income Base £45,000

Future Plans:

·         Mailshot companies in local areas to increase sponsorship of baskets and troughs

·         Create a portfolio of all existing sponsored roundabouts

·         Choose a planter design – which will become our corporate

·         Review and amend existing literature

·         Mail shot business to increase sponsorship for vacant roundabouts.

·         Target Income base £50,000

·         Business Awards Ceremony and Specific competition