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Will your business sponsor this year's Paper Boat Race?
The London Road Community Forum is once again staging the ever popular paper boat race as part of the fun and festivities of the Pencester Gardens Horticultural Show, but with a slight difference this year: normally this event takes place during school term time and we can drum up participation from large numbers of schoolchildren who enter the event as part of a school project.
This year the event falls during the school holidays and, although we anticipate a good number of children will enter privately, we are hoping that the funds we can raise will be boosted by attracting entries from local shops, pubs and businesses. Andy Cooper's The Fabric Fairy business, for example, has already purchased 5 paper boats @ £1.00 each and pledged further support by way of sponsoring the event with a similar amount of cash on top of that; business sponsorship can be as little or as large as you can afford - sadly, we are living through difficult times money-wise, so we have to realise that businesses are, like all of us, struggling for cash. However, for just a few pounds, you can show tremendous support for The London Road Community Forum and our endeavours to rejuvenate our catchment area.
We can't promise your business will get a prime time ad in the middle of Coronation Street, but we'll give you an acknowledgement on this forum and we'll try to get the local press to cover the story; more than that, though, you'll be supporting a genuinely local group and that will be noted by local people. No matter how much you can afford, your sponsorship will be greatly valued, so please let me have your contact details and someone will be back to you to snap up your money!