The annual Brisbane Valley Rail Trail Festival of Cycling offers a range of both challenging and family friendly gravel cycling at it’s best with a finish line village in Yarraman organised by the crew of Wild Horse Community Radio Station where there will be an opportunity for sponsors to have a stall.
There will be four distances starting in Wulkuraka (the full 161 km length of the rail trail), Toogoolawah (75 km), Moore (50 km) and a very family friendy 22 km option starting in Blackbutt.
We’re offering two levels of sponsorship: Gold @ $1500 or Silver @ $500 to help cover the estimated $25,000 costs of running the event that includes professional marketing and promotion, finish line flags, Internet connected live timing and tracking system, feed stations, water supply, catering for volunteers, bespoke bike racks for cyclists to use at the finish line, coach and truck hire for return transport of people and bikes, a professional photographer, public liability insurance, etc, etc. We also engage local community groups such as The Ambassadors for the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail to assist with the feed stations as a fund raiser for them.
The annual BVRT Festival of Cycling is a great promotion for the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail and the regions it passes through.
This is a great opportunity to support fitness and health in our community as well as giving a boost to local tourism. When we last ran the event in this format, we attracted over 300 entrants. A large number book accommodation in the region for the weekend.
Profits from our events contribute to our fundraising for enhancements to the rail trail experience, such as the $15,000 mural by Brightsiders silo artists at the Nurinda Underpass and the recent $25,000 mural in Fernvale by local artist Susan McConnel.
| $1500 Gold Sponsorship Benefits | Details |
| Bike Bibs | Logo placement on all Bike Bibs |
| Event Jerseys | Logo Placement on all event jerseys |
| Free entries | Up to 5 free entries for your staff and customers. |
| Plus all the Benefits of Silver Sponsorship below | |
| $500 Silver Sponsorship Benefits | Details |
| Start and Finish Line | Display banners (to be provided by sponsor) at the Start and Finish Line. |
| Eventbrite Booking Webpage | Logo placement |
| Finish Line Village | Free stall |
| Facebook Event Page | Post acknowledging sponsorship. Logo Placement. |
| Electronic Direct Marketing Via Eventbrite | Logo placement with link in all direct marketing |
| Event Photos | Rights to use the great event photos that will be taken by our professional photographer. |
Some useful data
Our Eventbrite mailing list is around 8000 people who have participated in our events.
Our Facebook Group has 17,300 members and is the primary BVRT community information sharing resource:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BVRTcycling
Our Facebook Page has around 12,000 Likes and 13,000 Followers.
https://www.facebook.com/BrisbaneValleyRailTrailUsersAssociation
The BVRT website where the event will also be advertised receives an avaerage of 11,600 unique Visitors per month and is viewed by 72.2% of all visitors to the rail trail (recent UQ research study):
www.brisbanevalleyrailtrail.com.au
The event will be promoted by Southern Queensland Country Tourism. In addition, there will be radio interviews and other media opportunities.
Please feel welcome to let us know if you have any other ideas about how your business might be able to add value to this event.
Thank you for considering our sponsorship proposal and we hope you will support this great event.
Please feel welcome to contact me if you require any further information.
paul@brisbanevalleyrailtrail.com.au
Mob 0417 342 854
