Sponsors of Hantsweb Awards 2008
"I set myself a life goal and business objective to enrich the life experience of 1,000,004 people every year. I've always believed that setting very high expectations of yourself and others is the route to success and 1,000,004 is certainly shooting for the moon… when I was nominated I really felt that the universe was conspiring to help me meet my goal. When I won the award I was sure!”
Previous Winner, Hantsweb Awards
A big thank you to all our sponsors
Wave 105 - Media Sponsor & Sponsor of the Best Special Interest Website
Wave 105 is the home of the south's best variety of hits and Steve Power at Breakfast. We serve the Solent region, including Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole, Winchester, Chichester, Bognor Regis and the Isle of Wight.
We play a mix of adult contemporary hits, the classics of the 70's, 80's and 90's and today's best music. Wave 105 combines music with great on-air personalities focussing on essential news and travel, lifestyle and entertainment information.
Wave 105 has enjoyed continuous success for the past 10 years due to a strong business strategy. This has driven the station to new heights of audience share and financial performance in the face of an increasingly competitive and fragmented media market.
The station is proud to be sponsoring the awards for the second year as they believe that quality website design is integral to a business’s success.
The Daily Echo - Print Sponsor & Sponsor of the Best Local Area Website
As Hampshire’s leading daily newspaper, the Daily Echo is an eager cheerleader for the county’s moves to both take advantage of the possibilities offered by the internet and shape its future.
Not only have we made great strides in our own on-line offer, but have long supported local companies big and small in their efforts to get noticed on the web.
Therefore we are proud supporters of the Hantsweb Awards, which are a great way of highlighting the world-class digital talent working here today.
Dell™ - Sponsors of the Best Small Business Website and supplier of the prizes for the category winners
Dell UK Ltd has a history of supporting the Hantsweb Awards and the ongoing success of the awards means Dell is delighted to do so again in 2008. Dell is a long term provider of IT solutions and services to Hampshire County Council, as well as many other authorities within Hampshire and the surrounding area. The Hantsweb Awards represent an ideal platform for Dell, an industry leading provider of innovative technology and services to public sector organisations, to support the community in Hampshire.
ExxonMobil - Sponsors of the Best Secondary School or College Website
ExxonMobil is the world's largest oil company with operations in nearly every country on the globe. Our refinery at Fawley on Southampton Water, is the largest in the UK and we are the largest manufacturing employer in Hampshire.
We take our responsibility towards the community in which we operate extremely seriously and invest in programmes that benefit young and old, the environment and the least advantaged within the community. We place a particular emphasis on education and have an extensive Link School programme partnering schools close to our operations around the UK. We are delighted to be supporting the Hantsweb Awards in 2008 and particularly the Secondary Schools and Colleges category.
Unisys - Sponsors of the Best Public Service Website
Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. We provide consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with powerful enterprise server technology. We specialize in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals.
As a company that strives to be a good corporate citizen, Unisys invests in the communities where it does business and where its employees and their families live. These investments take the form of leadership, expertise and contributions in the areas of:
Technology and Business Education - focused strategically on selected colleges and universities
Cultural and Civic Organizations - through activities such as the Hants Web Awards
For more information, visit www.unisys.com
SEEDA - Sponsors of the Best Charity or Voluntary Organisation Website
The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) is the Government funded Agency responsible for the sustainable economic development and regeneration of the South East of England - the driving force of the UK's economy. Our aim is to create a prosperous, dynamic and inspirational region by helping businesses compete more effectively, training a highly skilled workforce, supporting and enabling our communities while safeguarding our natural resources and cherishing our rich cultural heritage.
SEEDA sponsorship for this innovative award raises awareness through the use of ICT by Voluntary sector organisations in their local place, by encouraging them, and the community based people, to share their local knowledge, skills and culture, through participation in this annual county wide event within the South East.
BT Local Government Services - Sponsors of the Best Primary School or Early Years Website
BT is a proud member of the Hampshire community whose employees live in and deliver services to the organisations and people of Hampshire. As members of this community we seek to be good citizens, reflected in our world leading green credentials.
We are sponsoring the Hantsweb awards because we have a commitment to Hampshire and, reflecting our own culture, a desire to support and reward innovation, technical and service delivery excellence and solutions that inform and bring people closer together.
BT Local Government Services is a well Established team, providing innovative and inspirational networked IT service to over 1,500 customers including councils, housing associations, universities and colleges.
Civica - Sponsors of the Best Recreation or Tourism Website
Civica is a market leader in software-based solutions that help organisations improve service delivery to their communities. Our people work with more than 1,500 organisations internationally, in local government, criminal justice, social housing, education, healthcare and defence, as well as regulated services such as legal, pensions and utilities.
With a 20-year history of supplying software and services , Civica’s products and services are behind local transactions with 25 million citizens and businesses. The company blends business and technical consulting, development and integration of specialist business applications and managed services, to ensure technology works harder in the delivery of essential services, better regulation and leaner government.
Civica have a long history of partnership with Hampshire County Council having been a supplier on the CBC software framework agreement since 1996. Being a supplier on this agreement means that Civica have been able to do more than just supply software and associated services to the Council, throughout the course of this relationship, Civica have acted as trusted source of advice to the Council whenever needed and are proud be to involved in local initiatives as shown through our sponsorship of the Hantsweb awards.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd - Sponsors of the Best Sport Website and of the design and creation of the trophies.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd.(Satyam) is a global IT consulting and services provider, offering a range of expertise aimed at helping customers re-engineer and re-invent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing market. 52,000+ highly-skilled professionals serve 670 global companies, including more than one-third of Fortune 500. The presence spans 66 countries, across 6 continents work providing customized IT solutions.
Satyam’s Public Services vertical has been serving various government agencies (Federal, State and Local), development financial institutions (Global Development Banks & Central Banks), inter-government organizations (including Non-Profits and Charities), and institutes for higher education.
At Hantsweb Awards 2008, Satyam is the sponsor of the category: “Best Sport Website” .
Epi-Use - Sponsors of the Best Silver Surfer Website
EPI-USE is a leading SAP HCM specialist with over two decades' experience in the specification, implementation, and support of SAP HCM solutions that meet the needs of both HR and IT departments. With extensive Talent Management experience we are widely recognised as the leading SAP developer in the HCM product suite. It is a privilege to sponsor the Hantsweb Awards as it brings EPI-USE closer to the most important element of our organisations – your citizens.
Hedra - Sponsors of the Most Accessible Website
Hedra - a Mouchel Group company, is once again proud to sponsor the Hantsweb Awards. We support the initiative to improve the standard of online services and reward innovative thinking, whilst raising awareness of the opportunities the web presents for communities. As the largest dedicated Public Services consultancy in the UK, we work with local government to help them come together with their communities to create truly transformational solutions, delivering innovative and cost effective services that can be provided to the citizen through such portals.
WYSE - Sponsors of the Best Young Person's Website
Wyse Technology is delighted to be sponsoring the ‘Best Young Persons Website’ at the Hantsweb Awards this year. Wyse has a long tradition of supporting new website innovation, and champion the creative and imaginative use of technology as a vital tool to a vibrant and sustainable economic future.
Founded in 1981 Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Organisations around the world are increasingly using Wyse hardware and software to deliver computing services with better security, manageability and at much lower cost of ownership than with a PC.
Aberdeen Asset
Aberdeen Asset Management is an independent asset management group, which was originally founded in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1983. We invest worldwide on behalf of clients globally across the three major asset classes of equities, fixed income and property with total assets under management currently of £114 billion. Our key clients include leading national and corporate pension funds, central banks and other investment institutions
Lagan
Lagan, the specialist provider of software solutions to governments worldwide, is delighted to be sponsoring the Hantsweb awards 2008. There is a big focus in local government currently to reduce ‘avoidable contact’ in line with a central government requirement (NI 14), and web technology is one way of enabling this. We fully support any initiative which makes it easier for citizens to connect better with government.
www.lagan.com
Bluehalo - Supplier of one of the prizes for the winner of the Best Sports Category
Juniper Networks - Supplier of the runners-up prizes
www.juniper.net
EMC
Becoming a Sponsor
The Hantsweb Awards is a unique and prestigious event that promotes and provides recognition of excellence and innovation in website and internet services in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Hampshire County Council organises these awards to improve the standard of online services, encourage good practice, reward innovation and raise awareness of the opportunities the web presents for communities.
We hope that by encouraging, rewarding and raising the profile of the best websites and internet services available in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, that these services will improve and lead to more people being able to benefit by going online.
We would like to work with you to help this happen.
Why sponsor the Hantsweb Awards?
We would like to work with organisations who want to:
get local – get close to Hampshire and Isle of Wight residents, a population of approximately 1.7 million
support voluntary and charity groups, schools and colleges as well as local and business communities
increase and enhance their profile within these communities
target specific groups within these communities to help make a difference to them
be associated with promoting innovation, best practice and accessibility at all levels
work with Hampshire County Council to achieve this.
The Awards are a high profile event enjoying wide-ranging promotion and media coverage. The ceremony itself provides an opportunity to interact with key figures from around the county and the Isle of Wight, together with website publishers at a grass-root level.
This means that you can use your involvement with the Awards and Hampshire County Council to promote your company name and image in front of a wide audience with a very positive, local message.
Sponsorship packages
All of these packages can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation, and we would be happy to discuss further your objectives and how we can help you achieve these.
PLATINUM Sponsor - £15,000 plus gifts in kind
There is only one opportunity available to be the main sponsor of the Awards ceremony. The benefits you would receive include:
Billing of Hantsweb Awards as ‘in association with ….’, plus inclusion of your logo on all 2008 marketing material available from the time of your sponsorship pledge including:
on the Hantsweb Awards website home page
in all media releases (although it will not be possible to include a logo in these cases)
on the stage set
on the cover of the ceremony programme.
Exclusive sponsorship of an award (to be decided in conjunction with sponsor), together with the option to nominate a person to judge alongside our panel of experts.
The space for your logo and 100 words, together with a link to your website, on the Hantsweb Awards website – Hantsweb itself gets 400,000 unique visitors a month and the Awards are heavily promoted throughout the site.
The opportunity to include introductory copy to the ceremony programme.
Your logo and company profile at the top of the sponsors listing in the programme.
The opportunity to exhibit in the most prominent area open to sponsors at the ceremony.
The opportunity to give a short presentation on why you are sponsoring this event.
The opportunity to present an engraved trophy and certificate at the ceremony with your company name and logo on it.
Inclusion in specified photographs at the ceremony.
6 VIP invitations to the ceremony.
GOLD Sponsor - £5,000
The benefits you would receive include:
Inclusion of your logo on all 2008 marketing material available from the time of your sponsorship pledge, including:
on the Hantsweb Awards website home page
in all media releases (although it will not be possible to include a logo in these cases)
on the stage set
Exclusive sponsorship of an Award (to be decided in conjunction with sponsor), together with the option to nominate a person to judge alongside our panel of experts.
The space for your logo and 80 words, together with a link to your website, on the Hantsweb Awards website – Hantsweb itself gets 400,000 unique visitors a month and the awards are heavily promoted throughout the site.
Your logo and company profile in the sponsors listing in the programme.
The opportunity to exhibit at the ceremony.
The opportunity to present an engraved trophy and certificate at the ceremony with your name and logo on it.
Inclusion in specified photographs at the ceremony.
3 VIP invitations to the ceremony.
SILVER Sponsor - £2,500
The benefits you would receive include:
Inclusion on some marketing material available from the time of your sponsorship pledge.
The space for your logo, together with a link to your website, on the Hantsweb Awards website – Hantsweb itself gets 400,000 unique visitors a month and the awards are heavily promoted throughout the site.
Your logo in the sponsors listing in the programme.
The opportunity to exhibit at the ceremony.
2 invitations to the ceremony.
BRONZE Sponsor - Up to £2,500
The benefits you would receive are to be negotiated at the time of application.
If you wish to become a sponsor of this year's Hantsweb Awards please contact the Hantsweb Awards team on hantsweb.awards@hants.gov.uk or telephone 01962 874552.