Hello, I am writing to you on
behalf of the Brantford Girls Hockey Association. We are hosting our 43rd
Annual Walter Gretzky Tournament February 20-23 2025. Our tournament is one of
the biggest tournaments held in Brantford each year, with over 100 teams from
all over Ontario, and sometimes further. We host close to 2000 players and
their families each year and draw lots of traffic to our local businesses.
As our tournament continues
to grow, we are always looking for ways to help local businesses benefit from
our tournament. This year we are having a silent auction table and we are
looking for donations towards this.
Sponsors would create a
basket with a value of approximately $150 and we will add your basket to our
silent auction table. You can add a business card to your basket as a form of
advertising for your business.
If you would like to donate
towards our tournament but cannot commit to $150, that’s OK! We will accept any
amount of sponsorship that your company decides on, we can use it with other
sponsors to create a basket or use in another way during our tournament.
We are also looking for local
restaurants that would be willing to give the teams coupons or offer team
discounts towards their meals. Please keep in mind that if you are able to give
coupons most will be coming with a big group to your restaurant. The coupons
would only need to be valid for the weekend of our tournament, as most teams
will be travelling in for our tournament. Ideas could be % off, one free meal
per a certain number of people, free kids’ meal etc. We are willing to make use
of any coupons we get as we can hand them out in different ways. However, if
you would like all players to receive a coupon, we would need approximately
2000 coupons.
We also have other
sponsorship opportunities for local businesses. We will be having a photobooth
for a few hours on Friday and Saturday and would love to have a business
sponsor this event for us. The sponsorship for the photobooth would be between
$1500-$2000.
We also have MVP pucks that
we give out to one player from each team for every game in the tournament and
there is an opportunity for a sponsor to put their logo on one side of the
puck. The sponsorship for this would be approximately $1500-$2000 (depending on
how many pucks we need to order). We also love to do coach draws throughout the
weekend as a thank you to coaches for volunteering so we are always accepting
gift donations to put towards this as well.
Thank you for taking the time
to read and consider our sponsorship needs and an advertising opportunity for
your business. We appreciate all of our sponsors, and couldn’t do the things we
do without your help.
If you are interested in sponsoring or donating
to our tournament in any way, please email [email protected] for
more information. Please make sponsorship cheques payable to Brantford Girls
Hockey Association, and mail to BGHA PO Box 28012 Brantford ON N3R 7X5, you can
also Etransfer to [email protected]