My goodness Cindy, looks like you will get a Fail Mark on your last Post from Geoff the School Teacher(really).
Now for your Real concerns, Sponsorships for the Junior Reps. Geoff alluded to his help of Ann-Maree but I know Her Mother spent many an Hour, standing in Shopping Centres with the Mother of Robert Thompson and others, selling Raffle Tickets, to support their Sons and Daughters, to get the funds to help their Representative duties. As a Business Person you will know that using Money for Advertising cannot be wasted if you don't get results, therefore any Sponsorship you make to Rep Teams, must have a result through Newspaper stories or better still Television Coverage of the Sponsors Name and Business.
The trouble with todays Print Media is that the Bowling Centres do not Advertise on a regular basis, that being Local throw overs or larger Newspapers, therefore you cannot expect them to support a Sport that fails to use their Services, with stories and pictures. This than makes Sponsorship invisible and a total waste of money.
Until the Big Bowling Companies, start to Advertise consistantly with the Major Newspapers and the smaller local papers, the situation will not change, thus using Advertising money from Companies, will not happen if they cannot see some results in the Print Media.
Saying all that, if you do Advertise your Centre in the local Papers, you should be able to exert some Leverage, on such Papers, to run stories with pictures, this will help to get Sponsors for your local Reps and they won't feel they have just thrown their money away.
willey
p.s. how many mistakes did I make Geoff?
