Corporate Sponsorship

Our goal is to create a sponsorship package that is tailor-made to serve your corporate goals. Your company can choose to sponsor an individual performance, a full series, a special concert, education programmes, or become an exclusive Season Sponsor.

Community Relations Benefits

The Windsor Symphony Orchestra is committed to creating programs that bring orchestral music to people of all ages and backgrounds.

By partnering with the WSO, your company will:

• Establish an association with a world-class Symphony Orchestra
• Raise its community profile
• Be viewed as a philanthropic organization
• Help support children's education programmes (reaching over 25,000 children annually)
• Help make orchestral music accessible and affordable through the WSO's outreach programmes
• Help enrich the lives of the residents of our city, region and country

Entertainment Benefits

Create an incredible evening at the Symphony that your guests will not forget. Customized benefits can include:

• Complimentary tickets
• Assistance in planning and organizing pre- and/or post-concert receptions
• Opportunity to invite conductors and guest artists to private receptions
• Pre-performance talks providing an overview of the evening's performance
• Backstage tours for sponsor guests (subject to concert and the number of guests)
• Opportunity for your employees to purchase tickets for the sponsored concerts at a discount. Your employees will be entitled to a discount on subscription and single ticket purchases throughout the season outside of your sponsored performances, excluding specials.

Promotional Benefits

Promotional benefits can be tailored to suit the nature of your sponsorship. With over 40 concerts per season, and a variety of education and outreach programmes, sponsorship with the WSO offers flexibility and the ability to reach all or segments of the WSO audience.

Marketing opportunities may include:

• Inserts in WSO concert programes
• Product placement
• Sampling
• Your company's alignment with specific areas of the orchestra's work
• A unique promotion tailored to your organizational goals

Advertising and Co-Branding Benefits

The WSO's corporate sponsors receive recognition in all publicity activities associated with their specific sponsorship. Note: some benefits are time sensitive.

• WSO concert programs
• WSO Performance Press Releases
• WSO Website allows for logo recognition in the concert page and in the sponsor recognition section, both with a direct link to your company website
• WSO email newsletters
• Lobby signage at the sponsored event
• A live announcement will acknowledge your sponsorship to the audience prior to the start of each performance

Your logo may appear in WSO ads in the following publications:

• The Windsor Star, the Leamington Post/Kingsville Shopper, the Kingsville Reporter, the Amherstburg Echo, the Tecumseh Tribune, Shoreline News, Lakeshore News

For detailed information on the WSO's Sponsorship Program which includes publicity, advertising, complimentary tickets and an opportunity to entertain your guests, please contact contact Sheila Wisdom, Director of Development, by email or by phone at 519-973-1238.