Dear Members,

Our Club has recently established a Committee to raise sponsorship for MHYC. The Sponsorship Committee presently consists of Nigel Smyth (Club Chairman), Neil Padden (Club Treasurer), and Walter Carpenter (formerly Club Chairman).

Our immediate task is obtain sponsors for Junior Sailing and for the Sydney Harbour Regatta.

We are looking for members to help this effort in the following ways:
1. Recommend to us any person or organisation that you know to be effective in canvassing and obtaining corporate sponsorship for sporting organisations like MHYC
2. Volunteer to join the Sponsorship Committee. We need two motivated and energetic members with an expertise in sales or sponsorship.
3. Consider whether there are organisations and contacts within those organisations that you can introduce to us so that we can make a sponsorship proposal to them, especially for Junior Sailing and the SHR.

We have a draft proposal document for the SHR, and a draft document setting out the structure and options for Junior Sailing Sponsorship: if you would like to review these please contact us.

Junior Sailing is one of the recent success stories at MHYC. We now have over 400 Youth members and anyone visiting the Club will notice the Tackers program and our fleet of Club owned Optimist dinghies. These dinghies represent a tremendous sponsorship platform. An opportunity for organisations to build brand awareness, and build their brand goodwill by doing good in the community. They are 20 floating billboards that take to the water most days of the year.

The Sydney Harbour Regatta is the largest regatta sailed in Sydney Harbour, over 2 days, with 300 plus boats typically competing over the second weekend of March. An opportunity exists for a naming rights sponsor at a fair and reasonable price.

Please feel free to respond to any of Neil Padden (npadden@bigpond.net.au), Nigel Smyth (smythnd@gmail.com), or myself (walter@wrcarpenters.com).

We look forward to your support in this important initiative.

Regards,

Walter Carpenter