Friends of the Big Brum Buz

We are a not for profit organisation aiming to promote and unite the citizens of Birmingham. The concept is a chain bracelet - linking and uniting everyone together - everyone is a Brummie! To keep the bus on the road we need funding so if you would like to support and become a Friend of the Big Brum Buz please –please contact Sue at Birmingham Tours on 0121 427 2555/078051 15998 or email enquiries@birmingham-tours.co.uk. Friends of the Big Brum Buz are really important and I thank everyone who believes that Birmingham - the second city should have a bus. The bus is the perfect vehicle for sponsorship as it has a high profile and will feature in many events in 2013. It is a tourist attraction in its own right as well as an ambassador for the city promoting community awareness and harmony. Check out the Big Brum Open Top Buz page for ideas on how you can use the bus.

Friends of the Big Brum Buz - this is how you can become involved – what can we do for you?

Edgbaston Priory Tennis Club – sponsored the bus and held a Priory `Pimms’ Party

The Dickens Foundation – sponsored a seat and received an annual pass

Sarah Bond – sponsored a seat and received an annual pass

Eve Kirby – sponsored a seat and received an annual pass

Rosemary Williams – sponsored a seat and received an annual pass

Grimmitt Trust – sponsored a seat and received an annual pass

Pertemps People Development Group – received an annual pass for their staff

Old Crown Inn – advertised on the bus

Fishers Estate Agents – advertised on the bus

Marketing Birmingham – hired the bus for Taste of Business

Davis Charted Accountants – sponsored a seat and received an annual pass

Hyatt Hotel – opted for a promotional package promoting their afternoon tea

The Barber Institute and Winterbourne Gardens have a promotional bus stop

Branding the bus for one year - £5,000 (this covers approximately the cost of running the bus for one day for three months)

Bus stop promotional offer - £500

Included in the price:

a physical stop where clients would be told by the guide that this is the stop for your venue.
your venue would be promoted on our leaflets included in the route map.
advertising on the bus in terms of a poster and your flyers available.
as part of our Days Out in Birmingham initiative when we put forward an itinerary for a client we would promote your venue as part of the package.

Promotional offer - £300

Included in the price:

advertising on the bus and flyers
Days Out in Birmingham initiative when we put forward an itinerary for a client we would promote your venue as part of the package
promotion of your venue or a particular event linked in with a tour of the city

Individual bus pass £200

Advertising prices range on the bus from £1000, £500 to £250 depending on positioning.

Any part of the concepts can be purchased on an individual basis for £250
As part of any of the packages we would like a reciprocal website link and inclusion of our details and support of our project on your website or promotional literature.
We would be happy to look at any appropriate financial suggestion linked in if appropriate with other venues on route

PROMOTIONAL IDEAS FOR 2013

PROMOTIONAL QUIZ QUESTION

Birmingham Tours website has a google ranking of PR4 and an average of 2500 hits a day. Recently, we were paid £250 to put a link on our website - how cool is that!

Would you like to participate in a promotional event we are doing this year? I am running a promotional quiz and offering a free ticket on the Big Brum Open Top Buz once a week. Today Friday 9th March the first quiz question for the year went live on our website and I made a tweet! Your venue could be the basis for the question and to answer the question the person has to visit your venue, thereby increasing visitor numbers and overall awareness of your attraction. We would be happy to put the question, image and link to your website on our home page in return for appropriate support. To download further information click here.

PROMOTIONAL HOTEL & GROUP ORGANISERS OFFER

We would like to put forward a suggestion to all group organisers and hotels in and around Birmingham that we all promote Days Out in Birmingham. If you are a group organiser Birmingham is a superb place to hold an event offering a central location, convenient relaxed access combined with a unique experience. If you are a hotel you can increase the length of stay for guests thereby obviously increasing your revenue by providing added value. At the point of group booking rather than be unsure of what Birmingham has to offer you can put forward an appropriate proposal for any time of the year. Hotel staff are welcome on the bus at any time when it is running free of charge and we are very happy to provide fam trips for both staff and guests to celebrate what Birmingham has to offer. To download further information click here.

PROMOTIONAL CHARITY OFFER

Any of our bus or walking tours can be used for charity events. Someone contacted me recently and said that people were bored being asked for money with nothing in return - so true! However, they also did not understand how they could use any of our tours to raise money so for further information please click here.