sponsorship
Want to be a part of one of Canada’s largest and most prominent Freestyle Ski and Snowboard Clubs, including Canada’s largest all-girl freestyle ski team (the G Team) while showcasing your community’s business?
Silver Star Freestyle Club is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run organization that aims to promote the sport of freestyle skiing in a fun, safe, and progressive team learning environment.
We offer freestyle skiing and snowboarding, a ski academy partnership with SD22 (and in development for SD83), trampoline training, water ramp sessions, and dryland programs to young athletes of all abilities, from eight to eighteen. Our growth over the last quarter century has gone from a club of a dozen athletes to over 200 participating members.
Developing Skiers & rIDERS For Life
Silver Star Freestyle Club believes in developing youth in the freestyle culture of having safe, supportive, respectful fun that embraces a positive learning and teaching environment. Through genuine engagement with our business and community partners we will continue to grow our programs and enrollment.
Annual sponsorship support has helped us to achieve our main goal of inspiring youth to become lifelong skiers and snowboarders. The consistent residual effect of our successful program brings back positive community role models as inspiring coaches for the next generation, a practice we term ‘Motivation through Mentorship’. These coaches bring to our community of youth the awareness of valuing family, friendship, gratitude, perseverance, integrity, accountability, hard work, and respecting the outdoor environment in which we call our playground.
Highly valued sponsorship support allows our non-profit Silver Star Freestyle Club to resume providing a safe, exciting, and fun learning environment for all of our members. As well, we can continue providing a competitive environment that produces top-level athletes representing the Silver Star Freestyle Club on provincial, national, international, and Olympic stages.
what does sponsorship mean for our athletes?
As a non-profit and volunteer-run organization, sponsorship is essential to ensuring our club can satisfy its core mission of offering freestyle skiing and snowboarding, trampoline, water ramp, and dryland programs to athletes of all abilities and ages.
Your generous donation will help us hire and retain coaches, run freestyle events at Silver Star, support club athletes when they compete at other mountains, and build and maintain freestyle facilities used for athlete training and progression.
what value does sponsorship have for the sponsor?
Through sponsorship, your investment not only brings value to our organization but also to yours by:
Demonstrating your support of the development of “skiers for life” in Vernon and throughout BC and beyond.
Promoting your company’s support of active living and a healthy lifestyle.
Providing community leadership and involvement.
Gaining access to a diverse audience that offers excellent visibility and extensive awareness of your company.
The true value to you through this sponsorship program is the exposure your company and its brand will receive. Our membership alone in 2021/22 consisted of over 220 athletes, each wearing jerseys with sponsor logos on every training day and all with dedicated parents receiving regular communications from the club – a captive audience for your brand! And, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Sponsorship of Silver Star Freestyle Club provides you with reach beyond the club: local and visiting Silver Star traffic, newspaper readership, radio listeners, and the viral nature of social media.
sponsorship opportunities?
Club Training Jerseys
Since 2013, our club athletes have been sporting jerseys. These vibrantly coloured bibs greatly improve the visibility of our club and our athletes on the mountain. Only Gold Sponsor logos are placed on the jerseys, providing excellent exposure of corporate branding to local and visiting mountain traffic.
NEW – Gold sponsorship has now become a three-year commitment for 2021-2023. By moving to a three-year commitment, Gold sponsorship becomes an exclusive opportunity to partner with our club beyond one year. Our partners will benefit from year-round exposure at our different training facilities and will receive a jersey as a memento of their support to display as they wish.
Club Marketing and Communications
Silver Star Freestyle Club does much of its own marketing to the public through numerous channels, and presents valuable co-branding opportunities to our sponsors:
Digital Media: Sponsor logos are placed throughout the club’s website (www.ssfreestyle.com), with a clickable link back to your own company’s website.
Social Media: We regularly communicate to our members via our dedicated Facebook and Instagram pages. Sponsors will have opportunities to communicate company information or promotions and link to own websites or thought leadership pieces. We will be looking at other forms of social media in the upcoming year.
Club Blog: We regularly distribute a newsletter to our members to communicate upcoming and current club events and information. Each newsletter includes our sponsor support.
Videos: Sponsorship taglines will also be included in club produced videos of the athletes, club events, and other videos such as instructional videos for our volunteers.