Exhibitions Sponsorship Package Opportunity Art at the Heart of the RUH Art at the Heart presents a high quality programme of arts within the RUH for the benefit of patients, staff and visitors. The programme covers the visual arts, music and literature through exhibitions, performances and readings together with participatory workshops. The programme is dedicated to improving patients’ lives and their experience of visiting a hospital through the arts by providing engaging and stimulating creative activities. The service provides much needed creative respite to engage patients and reduce stress, improving their time spent in the RUH’s care, through the distraction from minor and major conditions.
High quality presentation
The programme aims to improve mental and physical well-being; decrease depression and anxiety; build stronger patient, carer, family and staff relationships; and ultimately reduce time spent in hospital. The RUH covers 54 acres of site and has one of Bath’s most accessible exhibition spaces, open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. The central corridor is the showcase space and provides a continuous display that changes approximately four times a year.
Central Corridor
“The main psychological task of a hospital is to provide protection and nurturance for patients. The environment, combined with the arts, helps us establish a sense of trust and safety. The physical, psychological and social drain of illness and treatment is substantial and art and design can help us lighten this burden significantly”. Dr. Mike Osborn, Macmillan Clinical Psychologist, RUH
Artist Talks and Private View Events
www.ruh,nhs.uk/art
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Art at the Heart of the RUH’s exhibitions are seen by hundreds of thousands of patients, staff and visitors of the RUH. To help meet the increasing costs of presenting these special exhibitions, The Forever Friends Appeal is turning to the corporate community for support.
Sponsor Packages
As an exhibition sponsor your company will enjoy a number of significant benefits and opportunities, outlined below.
We invite you to join The Forever Friends Appeal and Art at the Heart of the RUH in a partnership that will meet the exclusive needs of your company, and bring great benefits to our patients experience through art and design.
Gold Exhibition Sponsor - £2,500 + VAT Design, Print and Promotion • As the only Gold Exhibition Sponsor your company logo will be given prominence on exhibition plaques, positioned alongside the artwork at various locations around the hospital • Inclusion in a launch press release, sent to national and local media • Inclusion in the Art at the Heart e-newsletter and Forever Friends Appeal newsletter with over 12,000 subscribers • Significant acknowledgement on the exhibition web page on both the Art at the Heart and The Forever Friends Appeal websites • Acknowledgement on both the Art at the Heart and The Forever Friends Appeal social media sites • A special one-off hardback edition book of the exhibition complete with feedback and press images, featuring a limited-edition dust jacket. Preview Evening / Celebration Event – to be decided as appropriate • The opportunity to invite staff, clients and suppliers to an Exhibition Preview Evening or Celebration event – to be decided following further discussion with sponsor • The opportunity to engage with the hospital community, artists and invited guests • The opportunity to display branding at the event Silver Exhibition Sponsor - £1,000 + VAT • Your company logo will be acknowledged on exhibition plaques, positioned alongside the artwork at various locations around the hospital • Inclusion in a launch press release, sent to national and local media • Acknowledgement on the exhibition web page on both the Art at the Heart and The Forever Friends Appeal websites • Invitation to the Exhibition Preview Evening / Celebration Event Bronze Exhibition Sponsor - £500 + VAT • Your company logo will be acknowledged on exhibition plaques, positioned alongside the artwork at various locations around the hospital • Invitation to the Exhibition Preview Evening / Celebration Event
To discuss this sponsorship opportunity, please contact: Louisa Smyllie, Corporate Officer The Forever Friends Appeal, RUH, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG Tel: 01225 825 392 Email: l.smyllie@nhs.net Website: www.foreverfriendsappeal.co.uk