Sponsors Wanted

Posted by Kevin Van Lierop Under: Administration 10 June 2009

My name is Kevin Van Lierop and I am writing today to inform you of an upcoming community event taking place in downtown London, Ontario.

On Saturday July 18, 2009 a number of Londoners (and non-Londoners) will be participating in the 2nd annual World Wide Photo Walk. In case you aren’t familiar with what a photo walk is, it is an opportunity for members of a community to get together to explore and celebrate their community and city through both walking and taking photographs.

The Word Wide Photo Walk taking place on July 18th is important for London in two ways. First, this photo walk will be the 4th photo walk held in London. Recently many Londoners have been getting together once a month to explore, celebrate and photograph various communities, places and people within the city. Over the past 2 photo walks we have found that the number of people coming out to join us keeps increasing as interest keeps on growing in what we are doing. We are currently working with Communities in Bloom to make this a formal event under their “umbrella” organization.

The second reason why the July 18th photo walk is special is that it is part of an International event that will find roughly 10 000 photographers in about 1000 cities participating all at once in photo walks around the globe. Londoners not only have an opportunity to celebrate their community but to celebrate with people around the globe this great planet we call home.

On July 18th, 2009 we have arranged for a group of 50 registered photographers to meet at the Forks of the Thames from which we will depart on a 2 hour walk exploring the downtown core. After the walk we plan on meeting up for lunch to talk about what we found, share photographs taken and talk about why we love the city we call home. We are hoping that this event will help to get Londoners more aware and engaged in the city they live within as well as provide an opportunity for people to photograph London and meet others from the community and supporting businesses.

What we are trying to arrange is to have local businesses show their support of this not-for-profit event, Londoners and the community by donating something that we can use as a door prize, or perhaps for one of our grand prizes for top photograph(s). We are hoping that businesses, such as yours, will be willing to support this event by donating things such as gift certificates, products or corporate merchandise/”swag” to be used as prizes for our participants.

In return for anything donated to this even we can offer any sponsors (such as yourself) advertisement space on this website , mention of your business and appropriate “Thank You(s)” before and after the walk itself. More importantly though we would hope that any sponsor would take this opportunity to join us on the day of the walk, to take some photographs, meet members of the community and get engaged with past, present and potential customers.

If you would like additional information regarding this event, its organizers or would like to donate a prize for the participants, feel free to contact us directly. We would be more than happy to come visit you to discuss this event and it’s participants in greater detail.

We look forward to hearing from you and hoping that we can get you and your business involved in this great event.

Cheers,