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.

Blake Morgan LLP is a leading law firm advising organisations across the public sector, with extensive experience supporting local authorities, central government bodies, NHS organisations, regulators, educational institutions and not-for-profit organisations throughout England and Wales. The firm has a strong regional presence delivering its service from offices in London, Cardiff, Reading, Oxford, Manchester and Southampton.

Their public sector team works alongside officers, executives, boards and elected members to help deliver services, manage risk and achieve strategic objectives in complex and highly regulated environments. They advise on a broad range of matters including governance, procurement, public law, commercial contracts, employment, property, regeneration, infrastructure, health and social care, education, charities and dispute resolution.

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 several areas such as leisure, libraries, housing, education, waste and social care. Their experience includes supporting local authorities on major regeneration and infrastructure projects, advising government departments and agencies on strategic programmes and helping NHS bodies navigate operational, commercial and regulatory challenges. This breadth of experience enables them to provide practical, outcome-focused advice that reflects the realities of public service delivery.

Blake Morgan is also appointed to the Government Commercial Agency’s RM6374 Legal Panel for Public Sector framework, providing public sector buyers with a compliant and efficient route to access their legal services through a recognised national framework. Find out more here.

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.