Why you should enter

REAP THE REWARDS OF YOUR SUCCESS

Winning or being shortlisted for a Hollis Sponsorship Award is a fantastic achievement; a huge boost to all who worked on the campaign or within your business. But it’s much more than that – it’s tantamount to proof that your sponsorships work.

In these turbulent financial times, when threats of budget cuts are all around, you need to be able to offer concrete evidence to your board, your clients, employees, stakeholders and prospective sponsors that you know their business and your business inside out and that you have created a sponsorship that ticked all the vital boxes.

If your sponsorship programme was a great success and you can prove it, now is your opportunity to gain the recognition that you and your staff deserve. Ten reasons why should you put your campaign in for a Sponsorship Award:

• Rewards excellence
• Recognises effectiveness
• Convinces the board your decisions were the  right ones
• Motivates and rewards teams 
• Engenders pride
• Creates great PR opportunities
• Helps to secure future sponsorships
• Campaign proved a model of good practice
• Offers endorsement from industry specialists
• Stamp of approval from peers

Convinced? If you need any more persuading, please take a minute to read our testimonials.

“The Hollis Awards are the ‘Oscars ‘ of the sponsorship industry in the UK”
Rob Mason, IMG Consulting International

“We were delighted to receive our first Hollis award for our partnership with Philips. Recognition from such a well known sponsorship organisation, as well as the knowledge that industry experts made the final decision, meant we were extremely proud of our award. The evening itself is always a special occasion and we are very much looking forward to the next awards.”
Liz McCarthy, National Theatre

“Winning a Hollis Sponsorship Award was credible acknowledgement of our hard work, our creativity and our investment, an appreciated nod from the industry and our peers. For an in-house Communications department, this was independent evidence to the business that our strategy was clever and effective. “
Melaney Noon, Nelsons

“Winning the Hollis Consultancy of the Year Award was a significant boost to Synergy.  Not only was it testament to the consultancy’s work, it was a great cause of celebration for everyone working here whose excellence was publicly recognised.”  
Karen Earl, Synergy Sponsorship

“The Hollis Awards are one of the highlights of the sponsorship calendar. Being shortlisted in the PR category for our Ashes cricket campaign, and subsequently picking-up the trophy, was a fantastic achievement and something that Betfair is extremely proud of. Not only does the award reflect the hard work that went into activating the partnership, it’s also testament to the fact that the sponsorship was successful in terms of meeting our objectives and delivering a  significant ROI.”
Andy Lulham, Betfair

“To win the Sponsorship Continuity award for our sponsorship of the Welsh Rugby Union we see as the ultimate accolade.”
John Rhys, Brains

“The Sponsorship Awards allow us to benchmark ourselves against best practice within a competitive and creative industry.”
E.ON

“The winners act as models of good practice for everyone striving to bring the best of the sponsorship market.”
Colin Tweedy, Arts & Business

“Winning seven Hollis awards in 2009 was simply amazing – the awards are hugely prestigious. It’s very satisfying to gain that type of recognition from our peers – it gave the whole team a real lift.”
Tove Okunniwa, MEC Access

“Winning a Hollis award demonstrates we are definitely doing things right, it provided a real boost for everybody involved in the programme.”
Gary Doig, npower