Official Sponsorship letter - amend as necessary

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to seek financial sponsorship on behalf of a new illustration collective exhibiting together for the first time as part of London’s Free Range Festival, Europe’s largest graduate art and design show that attracts well over 100,000 visitors each year.

All the individuals exhibiting are graduating this year from Camberwell’s prestigious Illustration course that nurtured the outstanding talents of Sara Fanelli, Brett Ryder and Paul Cox. This new exhibition, set to present the future of creative illustration will take place on the 28th June - 2nd July in the highly conspicuous G3 Gallery on the shop floor of the Truman Brewery. To celebrate the exhibition we are producing a professional quality catalogue, designed by the creative director of the Less Common magazine (www.lesscommon.co.uk). The publication will serve as a reference book for contemporary illustrators who are not only up-and-coming, but also at the forefront of the industry for producing new and original imagery.

Among the many talented illustrators exhibiting in the show, some recent outstanding achievements were awarded to Jens Blank, Cat Roissetter and David Fulford who were short listed for the prestigious V&A Illustration award in the student category, out of over 300 applicants nationwide. Other achievements went to Nick Reyniers who became a member of the AOI for his witty caricatures, and David Fulford who exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the BP Portrait Award. More recently Anna Benner was invited to presented her research on the ’animated adaptations of Alice in wonderland’ at the Copenhagen Danima animation conference 2006. These are to name but a few of the notable successes from this vibrant and experimental collective of illustrators.

To see individual artist portfolios and more information about the exhibition, please visit:
http://www.free-range.org.uk/cgi-bin/exhibition.pl?yearID=12&exhibitorID=365&exhibitionID=412

We need to raise £4100 for the hire of the galley and a further £3000 for the printing of the exhibition catalogue, making £7100 in total. We are offering our sponsors a whole (b5) page in the catalogue to advertise their business. 2000 copies will be available for free at the show. As well as this, sponsors have the option to display their name on a vinyl sticker (no larger than standard A3) in the gallery window. This is a great opportunity to advertise to large numbers of people who will be visiting the exhibition, and the Free Range Festival as a whole.

I would be most grateful for your support, and look forward to hearing from you soon,

Many thanks,

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