Sponsors

Scottish Book Trust has pursued its charitable aims for over forty years, building a reputation second to none for the quality of what it delivers. Today, our innovative award winning programmes are admired both at home and abroad for their attention to detail, strong educational and charitable ethos, literary merit, and professional delivery.

We pride ourselves in knowing what a sponsor wants, and in understanding where their aims match ours so that strong sustainable partnerships can be created. With a host of national and international programmes there is much to choose from. We work with great care and commitment in close partnership with all our sponsors to ensure that our mutual aims are achieved, and that they are widely acknowledged through peer awards, print and broadcast media. If you'd like to find out more, we'd be delighted to speak with you.

Contact Scottish Book Trust's Chief Executive Marc Lambert, on 0131 524 0160, or email marc.lambert@scottishbooktrust.com

The following are some case studies of successful partnerships developed with sponsors:

 

The Scottish Friendly Children's Books Tour

 Scottish Friendly Assurance

"Scottish Friendly's long-term sponsorship of the Children's Book Touring Programme with Scottish Book Trust has helped us achieve our wider business objectives. The sponsorship has helped build brand personality, given us access to new target audiences, generated wide press coverage and has allowed us to invest in communities through a programme that's of immense value to children." (Calum Bennie, Marketing Manager, Scottish Friendly)

 

The Scottish Friendly Assurance company is Scottish Book Trust's longest-serving sponsor. Our partnership launched in 1998 and won Arts & Business' Sustained Partnership Award in in 2010. Together we take national and international children's authors and illustrators to schools and communities the length and breadth of Scotland. The sponsorship enables Scottish Friendly to:

  • Bring some of the best children's authors to isolated or deprived communities across the country
  • Foster a love of books, reading and writing amongst Scottish children and young people
  • Provide opportunity to buy books in areas where there are no bookshops
  • Secure high-quality local and national media coverage
  • Increase brand recognition in schools and communities across Scotland

Since 2010, Scottish Friendly has also been sponsoring the hugely successful Authors Live programme which regularly broadcasts the world's best children's authors, live over the internet, in conjunction with BBC Scotland. The events are streamed to schools across the UK, enabling even the most remote communities to access stellar events.

 

 

On The Money
 Standard Life  Learning Teaching Scotland

 "It has been a delight to work with an organisation that shares common goals and values in relation to the education of our young people. Our partnership with the Scottish Book Trust and Learning and Teaching Scotland for the "On the Money" project clearly demonstrates that a collaborative approach between different sectors can deliver exceptional results. Each organisation brings particular strengths and expertise to the project but it is the working together that has been central to the successful production of "On the Money" and supporting resource. Through our partnership we have been able to meet our objectives for proactively developing young people's financial capability."

(Tina Livingston & Rona Doig, Education Investment Managers, Standard Life)

Standard Life has been working with Scottish Book Trust, and the third project partner, Learning and Teaching Scotland since 2006 to develop a new resource tackling financial education for Primary School children. Sponsorship of On the Money has enabled Standard Life to:

  • Add value in an area of financial capability where a gap in the market had been identified
  • Take a proactive approach to supporting and developing financial capability
  • Support the development of the right attitudes and behaviours for dealing with financial matters
  • Lead the sector in an innovative approach to financial education which combines literacy and numeracy

This project has been developed in a model of partnership, with the authors and project managers working closely with teachers and pupils all the way through to ensure that the book and accompanying support materials are interesting, useful, user friendly and most importantly fun.

In 2007 the On the Money project was the joint category winner for Innovation in Corporate Citizenship at the Scottish Financial Enterprise Innovators Awards.