Birchfield Harriers in Birmingham have made
athlete sponsorship costs known to the public on their site, asking for help to
ensure a handful of athletes receive some form of sponsorship.
The club don’t receive funding from UK
Athletics or the National Lottery, but instead rely on membership fees and
sponsors to run the club.
They have detailed the different ways in which
you can sponsor the athletes in a shopping list format.
Costs have been made public on the site: Copyright Birchfield Harriers
“The cost of being a full time athlete does not
come cheap”.
The club is currently sponsored by major
company Nike amongst others, however with the lack of financial funding for its
athletes the club have turned to the Internet in hope that others are willing to help
their talent athletes.
Many of the athletes featured on the site
receive no funding and are forced to finance their career through part-time
jobs.
Those interested in sponsoring an athlete will
be able to meet the athlete and watch them train at a sponsors event.
Not as expensive as majors, sponsorship costs
are still steep ranging from the cost of kits to massages.
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