Sponsorship pack
You can create an impact – help us make the Russell peninsula predator-free!
How you can help?
To fully realise our Predator Free Russell goal, we need community-wide support. Landowners, local government, DOC, mana whenua, volunteers and other local organisations each bring their own expertise, skills and labour – all of which are invaluable to the kaupapa. Businesses too, have a vital role to play. Providing financial support enables the successful implementation and expansion of Predator Free Russell. Financial support literally keeps us moving. It means more traps, more trapping lines, more bait, more boots on the ground and faster outcomes. Providing in-kind support of goods and services is another way of helping the project and these can be built into sponsorship agreements.
A predator-free New Zealand is not going to be achieved by conservation groups alone. To do this mahi, we need the support of all corners of our society, from playgrounds to political parties to private enterprise.
Where does the money go?
While we are one of the most efficiently run predator-free projects in the country, running an operation like this doesn’t come cheap! From strategy and planning, to procurement, health and safety, communications, admin, and meeting with landowners and businesses, there’s a huge amount of work that goes into a successful and efficiently-run predator elimination programme. Predator Free Russell employs seven locals in part and full-time work.
Predator Free Russell is a boots-on-the-ground project. With no aerial bait application, there’s no substitute for a dedicated and hardworking team.
Why partner with us?
Support Local Community
By partnering with Predator Free Russell you are investing in your local community and the local environment. We employ locally, buy locally and have an impact locally. A predator-free Russell will also bring more tourists – great news for locals.
Positively Impact Biodiversity
Your business will contribute to real and tangible long-term environmental impacts. Less predators means more birds, more birds means more seed dispersal and vegetation, more plants bring positive climate impacts. Predator control really is the pointy end of environmental restoration.
Reduce Rodent Control Costs
Additional significant benefits to businesses and community also include the elimination of future costs associated with rat control, property damage and cleaning costs caused by rats.
Increase Your Brand Profile
Partnering with Predator Free Russell will also increase your brand preference and sustainability profile. You will generate significant goodwill with staff, clients and potential customers and be viewed as a business that helps pave the way for a new New Zealand.
Sponsorship Benefits
Being a sponsor of Predator Free Russell is like being part of our family. It’s a two-way relationship, and we want our partners to have a say in how we celebrate and promote our work together. Please feel free to suggest other ways we can collaborate.
BRONZE SPONSOR
$2,000+GST of cash or in-kind support per annum.
Benefits:
- Your logo on our website, community signage and annual report
- One post on our social media channels announcing our partnership and showcasing your business
- License to use the Russell Landcare Trust and Predator Free Russell logos for promotional/advertising activities, or on your website
- License to use images, footage, trapping results and biodiversity survey data
- Annual impact stats to share across your networks, showing your real-life impact on the local environment
- Opportunity to provide marketing material, run competitions and/or provide giveaways at events
- Opportunity to sponsor events and functions
SILVER SPONSOR
$5,000+GST of cash or in-kind support per annum.
Benefits:
- All benefits from Bronze sponsorship, plus…
- Opportunity to brand trap boxes and bait stations (hard costs apply)
- Your logo on our email newsletter
- Option to discuss benefits to suit your needs
GOLD SPONSOR
$10,000+GST of cash or in-kind support per annum.
Benefits:
- All benefits from Silver and Bronze sponsorships, plus…
- Two posts on our social media channels announcing our partnership and showcasing your marketing campaign
- One community conservation workshops, hosted in your name
- Opportunity for co-branded collateral for media opportunities
- Opportunity for co-branded merchandise
- Your logo on our website footer (site-wide)
PARTNER
$20,000+GST of cash or in-kind support per annum. We have 3 Partner level sponsorship positions available.
Benefits:
- All benefits from Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorships, plus…
- Three posts (total) on our social media channels announcing our partnership or showcasing your marketing campaign
- Two community conservation workshops, hosted in your name
- Brainstorming for leveraging opportunities via creative comms
- Acknowledgement of your sponsorship in our monthly Russell Lights article
- Your logo across all our comms, including on social media cover images
Ready to help?
Be part of a journey towards a predator-free Russell and ultimately, a predator-free New Zealand. Get in touch with us and let’s make it happen!
Other ways to help the project
Donate
Any dollar donated towards Predator Free Russell, helps us achieve our goal – make Russell peninsula a sanctuary for native species.
Land access
On Russell peninsula most of the land is private, so by giving access to locate traps on your land, you are helping our project to achieve our goal.
Reporting
The other way to help the project is to report any rat, possum, or stoat sightings in your neighbourhood, and trappers will get on to it.
Get in touch!
We would love to hear from you. Please fill in the form and we will get back to you.