Guildford Heat Sponsorship Opportunities
The Guildford Heat offer a wide range of opportunities to help you raise the profile of your business, improve exposure, and promote your company's products and services to both local and national audiences. We are happy to discuss your requirements, no matter how large or small. Packages can be tailored to suit all types of budgets.
Why Guildford Heat?
The Guildford Heat is one of only a few sports clubs in Surrey that play in the top professional division of their sport. Our growing community programmes are getting more and more Surrey school children involved in this exciting family sport. As a club we aim to have a player from the Guildford Heat in the UK basketball team for the 2012 London Olympics.
Facts and Figures about the Guildford Heat
- The Heat were formed in 2005, and play in the British Basketball League (BBL)
- In the first season qualified for the BBL Championship - an unrivalled feat.
- In the second season won the BBL Championship and BBL Cup double, and qualified for european competition.
- In the third season won the BBL Trophy and BBL Playoffs double. Entered into the Uleb Cup, the second tier of european basketball competition broadcast on Eurosport.
- Play at the 1300 capacity Guildford Spectrum Arena, named by the fans as The Furnace.
- In their first season over 16,500 fans watched Heat home games, and this rose to over 20,000 in the 2006-07 season, and nearly 22,000 in the 2007-08 season.
- The Heat website currently has an average of over 25,000 visits, and over 200,000 hits per month.
- Over 1000 fans receive a weekly e-newsletter from the club with the latest news and information.
- Major features weekly in the local press which includes the Surrey Advertiser and associated group papers.
- Media coverage through radio 96.4 The Eagle, and BBC Southern Counties Radio.96.4 The Eagle runs a regular Saturday morning Heat update with Breakfast Host Peter Gordon.
- Programme Sales for the 2005-2006 season totalled nearly 4,000 and was voted by the fans of BBL teams as the ‘Best Programme in the BBL’.
Spectator Demographics
Sex Male 55% Female 45%
Age The main age ranges are between 10 and 35 years old
5-15 yrs 25%, 16-25 yrs 35% 26-35 yrs 20% 35+ yrs 19%
Socio Economic Groupings A= 5%, B="35%," C1 30%, C2 20% D="10%
Please email sponsor@guildfordheat.com for further details, or call 01483 454005.
We look forward to hearing from you!
For Further information Select the links below
Download our PDF documentation: -
2007/08 Sponsorship Opportunities - Click here to download
(1.1mb file, approx 1min to download)
2008/09 literature in production
Hoops 4 Health Community Opportunities - Click here to download
(700k file, approx 40 seconds to download)
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