With school budgets squeezed tighter than ever, here’s an easy way to buy a school nativity… Don’t! Instead, let someone else buy it for you. Get a company to sponsor your nativity!
We’ve really noticed a change this year. More and more schools are jumping on the bandwagon of saving money by turning to sponsorship.
We Can’t Afford It!
We get it. Over and over again, we’re hearing the same thing from customers around the world, but particularly here in the UK. There’s no money left in the budget! Or, to be more precise, the usual question is along the lines of:
“Can we get one of your nativities for free?” Or, “We used one of your plays ten years ago. We’ve misplaced it. Can you send us a new free copy please.” (Yes, that question genuinely gets asked so often).
One of our company directors is a headteacher herself, so the budget pressures that all of you are under, are genuinely understood. However, in the end, we are a business, not a charity, and not a library service. We still need to make a living and pay for our staff and expenses too! Therefore, this year, for the first time in five years, we were forced to raise all our prices substantially. It was clear at the time we implemented the price changes that some customers would be priced out, but we felt we had no choice.
Don’t Buy It Out Of Your Own Money
So here’s where we come to the not so new idea, that’s just so blindingly obvious: Don’t buy the Christmas performance yourself. Invite a kind local company to sponsor your nativity instead!
It’s pretty much the same as asking a local company to sponsor your football team kit. The company pays for the kit. In exchange, you print the company logo on the front.
Well this idea is similar in that the company pays for the nativity material from us (along with any scenery / costumes / lighting you wish to splash out on). In exchange, you print their details / logo on your programmes, tickets, songsheets, etc. It’s a win/win… with some of the cheapest advertising the company concerned is ever going to get, and they gain the prestige of helping out their local school community in a time of need.
If you have any further questions about any aspect of the above information, then please feel free to contact us.