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Sponsorship and advertising opportunities with SCIS

A number of sponsorship, exhibition and advertising opportunities are available throughout the year, giving companies a platform to promote their products and services to the key decision makers in independent schools in Scotland.  Sponsorship packages can be devised to meet your company's particular needs over a specific period.  

SCIS AGM - 29 April 2011 (date tbc) 

SCIS's AGM usually attracts around 150 Heads, Bursars and Governors of member schools. Next year, it will take place on Friday 29 April (date to be confirmed) at the Roxburghe Hotel, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, within easy reach of both Haymarket and Waverley railway stations. Exhibition stands will be positioned inside the Atrium located at the centre of the hotel's ground floor.  The price is £600 although stands are free to charge to those who take a full colour advert in SCIS's directory of schools.  An exhibition booking form and advertising rates for the directory are available to view on the right.  

Exhibitors who attended the AGM in April 2010 are listed, below, with links to their website.   Times Educational Supplement Scotland (TESS), the Headline sponsor, offers heavily discounted subscriptions via this link.  

• Aitken and Niven (school wear)
• Camargue (car leasing)
• Edinburgh School of Food and Wine
• Gillman and Soame (photographer)
• HSBC (banking)
• Mathletics (learning resources)
• Pearson Phoenix (MIS databases for schools)  
• Playback (education curricular materials)
• SG World (health, safety and security products)
• Scottish Outdoor Education Centres
• Squidcard (smartcards for school catering)
• Teachers2Parents (text message service for schools)
• Technology Services Group - TSG (ICT solutions for education)
• Times Educational Supplement Scotland
• Turcan Connell (financial planning for school fees)
• University of Cambridge International Examinations
• Wesleyan for Teachers (life and pension plans)
• Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (supplier of educational resources)    

Other sponsorship and exhibition opportunities 

• Annual Dinner for member schools, Edinburgh (April) 
• Strategic Leadership for Heads, Perth (May)
• Marketing Conference, Edinburgh (May) 
• Heads Conference, Glasgow (September)
• Governors Induction, Edinburgh (September)
• Junior Heads Conference, Dunkeld (November)  
• School Leadership for new Heads, Perth (one per term) 
• Team Leadership, Edinburgh (one per term)   

Advertising opportunities  

In September each year, SCIS produces a directory of its member schools. The publication, aimed primarily at prospective parents, is also used as a reference tool by member schools and other organisations in the public and private sector. The directory has a print run of around 5,000 and is also available to view online on the Publications page of this website. Full colour adverts are priced from £500 (half page) to £1500 (cover positions). Organisations that book a full page advert also benefit from an exhibition stand, at no extra charge, at SCIS's Annual Conference and AGM, for which details are given, above. A booking form is available, on the right. 

All enquiries about sponsorship, exhibition stands and advertising opportunities should be made to Sarah Randell on 0131 220 2106.