Would you/Could you help Kelvin Grove Primary School raise money!!!
Foxton have agreed to sponsor the school summer fair by paying £15 for every advertising board and so we need people to agree to have a advertising board for 6 weeks from 6th June, the board will carry details of the fair, date time, etc. If you are willing to help please PM me.
Thank you
I see nasaroc and a few others are advertising Propertyworld for the next few weeks. If you squint really hard and turn your head 90 degrees it says they are sponsoring the Sydenham International Music Festival.
And these are active members of the Sydenham Society.
Can you imagine what an outcry there would be if McDonalds started using this tactic and paying a measly £15 a pop to fill the streets with golden arches? But what is the difference?
Yes my child does go to Kelvin Grove and I am very happy with it. the environment is caring and children know their boundaries, in my experience the teaching staff care and my daughter enjoys school. The main issue with the school is the lack of support it gets from parents!
The point made about the macdonalds advertising is fair but I am more than happy to advertise a board for the sake of my childs school getting some extra cash - always needed! (and hardly anyone gives money for nothing!)
While on the issue I would like to thank those individuals and companies that do and have supported Kelvin Grove it is much appreciated and needed.
Propertyworld is a local company that is family run.
McDonalds is a huge global company with multi million dollar marketing and advertising budgets.
You can't compare the two.
If a local company gets some local advertising and it's not obtrusive or ugly in return for sponsoring a local event, good luck to them. If it was McDonalds I'd be p**ed off.
As someone who is currently sporting a Property World board outside my house advertising the Sydenham Music Festival, I simply cannot understand the complaint being made by CastIron.
I am proud to support a local family-run estate agent, who have spent a considerable amount of money sponsoring a well-loved local event which wouldn't go ahead without such support. I know the owners as two people who give a great deal of their time and money to local events, usually without fanfare or commercial gain. There is no comparison with Macdonalds.
I will also be helping Kelvin Grove by passing on free children's books to MummyCat for the school library.
I couldn't agree with you more. I forgot to say before I too currently have a property world/ music festival board and am happy to help all local events. Property world are a excellent company with real community links, (I have recently bought and sold through them!) I would like to add they have also supported Kelvin Grove School.
It doesn't cost me anything to have one of these boards outside my house for a couple of weeks but can help the local community - win/win
I'm all in favour of raising money for schools and local events and advertising them. I'm also in favour of sponsorship, be it by local businesses or Microsoft.
But what has that got to do with it? Foxtons is not local. It may shelter abandoned kittens in its offices. I don't care.
It's the ratio of advert to sponsored event on these boards that bothers me. For Sale signs are ugly. They ruin streets if there are too many.
If these sponsors cared that much they would make do with a logo on any leaflets and posters in parents windows and a banner at the school gates. They would have had a simple thank you over the tannoy in the past, as the raffle was announced.
I think advertising is quite evil and will encroach into every area of life unless you ask people to stop.
It seems that too many people just want to find a reason NOT to help, if you look hard enough, you can find a justifiable reason NOT to help anyone or anything. I will be having a KG board outside my house and I will try and get a PW one too… It’s called supporting the local community, the school gets money, it's as simple as that! Good luck to Foxton, Property World and whoever else want to pump money back into our local community.
Last year a friend was moving and, hoping to lure her from Dulwich to Sydenham, I went into an agents on the High Street. I'd seen their boards outside two lovely houses in the Thorpes and wanted to get the details to pass on. I was surprised to be told they were not for sale - instead they were advertising, in very small writing, a school summer fair.
I felt duped. I think it's a misleading practice and must be very frustrating for genuine house hunters - especially in areas such as the Thorpes where certain properties rarely come to the market.
Whatever happened to posters designed by the kids? I would be very happy to put one of those in my window or a poster for the music festival but NOT on an estate agents board.
