[Official Site] BARNSLEY HOSPICE ANNOUNCED AS NEW FRONT OF SHIRT SPONSOR

BARNSLEY HOSPICE ANNOUNCED AS NEW FRONT OF SHIRT SPONSOR
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Barnsley Hospice has become our new front of shirt sponsor until the New Year as part of our Together Red campaign.

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That’s great, I Would buy a shirt now with that on if it was possible

 

Looks great.

 

If you buy online, there's a personalisation option to add the Hospice logo. There's a £5 charge which goes to the Hospice.

Assuming it's the same in-store.

There's a follow-up piece to come that will go into more detail.

 

It is. Or you can have it added to a blank shirt for a fiver..

 

So would I, but then we are still waiting on the hospice shirts from the first match of the season to be auctioned off like they said they would be.

 

Do they pay the club money for this sponsorship or are the club giving it to them?

If they do, not sure what I think about that. Will they really bring in more money than they otherwise would have done, through exposure on our shirt, more than they are paying out for the exposure? I find that a little hard to believe. And if it turns into a net cost, wouldn't that have been better spent on medical care.

 

The logo would be better smaller. It looks as big as it was with Hex on the front.

 

You mean Weston Park I think. All that was ever stated by the club, was that they'd be auctioned off at a later date. They're WPCC's shirts to do with as they please, as part of the activation and by all accounts, they are looking to do something with them at the end of this month, in time for Christmas. In fact, I think my colleague referred as much to that in an earlier article today. We'll be happy to be involved again no doubt.

As someone who lost his mother to cancer, after treatment at WPCC, and a close friend who passed after time spent at the Hospice, these are charities dear to my heart and those no doubt of many thousands around the region and what we've come together to create this season, following the previous debacle, is to be celebrated.

 

I thought the same. I'm sure it must be in the best interests of BH. Especially after the last sponsorship own goal..

 

You can't quantify it though. I've pretty much only heard of the hospice through BFC with it's various bucket collection and this. I won't be buying the shirt and having the logo on but I have given them money a few times as they're now somewhere that I think of. Someone seeing it now might make them remember it in years to come even if they aren't in a position to give any money now. Shirt sponsorship won't be that expensive that it means someone won't have care they need because of it.

 

Brilliant cause, questionable management. I speak as someone who knows about the inner workings of the Hospice. Paying themselves 80k -120k salaries for what were 40k -60k just 18 month ago, doesn't sit well with me. Be careful where your money actually goes.

 

Who are the 'themselves' you are speaking of, though? Surely the only people who are in charge of how much take home they get themselves are CEO types? 40-60k is absolutely not enough for a job with such a high level of responsibility. Maybe they were just massively underpaid for years?

 

Director roles and above, may be so but to increase salaries, in such a challenging period of time, is questionable . In that there were a large amount of redundancies within the Hospice , during and post pandemic. Salaries which are approved by the same people that they are given to. That is more my point. People donate to the Hospice in good faith, however, there is an element of trust in that the Hospice will use that money wisely. Use that money to go towards providing patient/ family services and care, not appoint hugely increased salaries to high level management. If you're happy about that, fair enough, I'm not so enamoured.

 

My dad died there, 29th February 2004 and his ashes were scattered on the grass behind the goal line at the Ponty end.

Nice to have another connection between the Hospice and the Club.