Sponsorship
Many participants have successfully negotiated sponsorship from their employers. Consider what expectations your sponsor might have, and what benefits might be attractive to them.
- You can be more effective at work, generating new ideas to resolve business issues
- You can apply new knowledge with greater awareness of the wider business environment
- You are more likely to stay with them
- You can focus your project and dissertation on solving real problems facing your organisation.
You will usually need a written document to support your case.
Sometimes you may also need to undertake a presentation to your organisation.
We can give you help and advice on both structure and content of a proposal for sponsorship.
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Make sure you cover a range of short and long term benefits linked to current business activity. Explain the advantages to be gained from your involvement in the programme and your association with other participants. Our guide for corporate sponsors sets out many of the benefits, as does the corporate sponsorship section of this site.
For anyone working for a UK private sector company with between 5 and 250 employees, the Train to Gain initiative offers grant support of up to £1,000 to develop leadership and management skills, which includes MBAs. The organisation normally has to match-fund it, but for details on this and eligibility, please click here.
Your employer's support comes in three areas; it's not just financial support you will be exploring.
- Financial: helping pay your tuition fees and other expenses.
- Time: giving you enough to study and attend the tuition.
- Development: offering opportunities at work to implement your learning.
If you are studying full-time and are being financially sponsored by your organisation, you and your employer may be eligible for tax relief on certain payments. For information, please consult a tax advisor or (in the UK) HM Revenue & Customs.
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