CLOA Sponsors

CLOA is keen to develop new corporate partnerships. In order to offer a competitive package, we have developed Principal and Associate sponsorship options. You can find out more here.

Alternatively we can tailor a sponsorship package to suit your requirements. Our sponsors are important to us; so please call Heidi Bellamy on 01379 384530 for a conversation about how we can work together.

Blake Morgan – Associate Sponsor

Blake Morgan is a leading UK law firm providing a breadth of legal services across the private and public sectors.

With a long heritage and committed client base, the firm’s partners and teams offer a depth of expertise in their key sectors, to include local authority leisure and different local authority service delivery structures. Providing highly tailored legal solutions to public sector clients is a key strength.

Blake Morgan is on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Public Sector Legal Services Framework – extending the firm’s successful relationship with existing clients under the framework, and making it straightforward for new public sector clients to access the firm’s legal expertise. Information about the services offered under the framework is available here.

Headed by Penny Rinta-Suksi, a Leading Individual in the Legal 500, and industry name in local authority leisure, Blake Morgan’s local authority team of legal experts specialise in a number of areas such as leisure, libraries, housing, education, waste and social care.

A selection of legal services offered on the CCS framework include:

Contracts, commercial and charities work to include joint venture structures
Outsourcing/Insourcing
Data Protection & Information Law
Administrative & Public Law
Non-Complex Finance
Energy, Natural Resources & Climate Change
Infrastructure
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Property, Real Estate & Construction
Employment
Restructuring & Insolvency
Telecommunications

Blake Morgan has a strong regional presence across southern England and Wales, serving its clients across the UK from offices in London, Cardiff, Reading, Oxford and Southampton.

To find out more about the firm’s experience, visit their website, or contact Penny Rinta-Suksi to get in touch.

Bigwave Marketing – Associate Sponsor

Bigwave Marketing is a leading specialist in Leisure & Culture that works with more than 550 facilities in the UK. The agency also works across tourism, hospitality, charity, education, biotech and construction.

The core Bigwave team comprises 40+ marketing professionals providing services which include:

Account Management
Business development/solutions (swim school/membership growth)
Content marketing
Demographic research
eMarketing & SMS
Graphic design & branding
Marketing campaigns, planning & consultancy
Paid media (PPC) management
Photography & Video
Search Engine Optimisation
Social media management
Training (Digital, SEO, PPC, Social)
Website design and build

The agency is both a Google Partner and a Facebook Marketing Partner, meaning it is well placed to help organisations grow, and are an European Search Awards finalist.

14+ years’ sector experience provides great insight to deliver effective and cost effective traditional, and digital, marketing. Extensive in-house knowledge helps grow Swim Schools and Fitness membership bases, while partnerships with suppliers and bodies across the sector makes the agency well placed to handle integrations and connect your dots.

Find out how Bigwave can help you connect your marketing dots and grow your organisation. For more information contact Simon Beer on 01392 492 380 or visit www.bigwave.co.uk

To help ensure our communities stay active in mind and body during this difficult time Bigwave Marketing, has pulled together an exclusive Lockdown offer for CLOA members of social ideas, activities and engagement tools that can be fully branded to your organisation. Take a look at the brochure here and contact tomgozna@bigwave.co.uk to find out more based on your own bespoke requirements.