Sponsorship Opportunities

The UK's largest and busiest, specialist event for the elderly care sector.  Bringing together elderly care professionals and suppliers under one roof, to create an exhibition that is not only vibrant and fun but provides a learning zone, a networking and trading floor and an experience for both visitors and exhibitors alike.

The Care Show has successfully grown into a must attend event for anyone serious about the Care industry. With over 150 companies exhibiting and over 2,000 key professionals attending each show, it is an unmissable event in the care calendar.

Why Exhibit?

Face-to-face contact is one of the most effective sales techniques and the Care Show is the place buyers come to compare, contrast, source and select new products and services. 

At the Care Show you can benefit from a networking environment in which you can consolidate and develop existing business relationships, as well as gain new business leads and build your brand.

This established and popular show is always being developed to meet the needs of all who take part, both visitors and exhibitors, and this year we are introducing even more features and opportunities to develop your networking and trading potential. 

New and exciting features to attract even more visitors include:

 New dedicated and focussed Dementia Care Zone
 Seminar Theatre with an extensive and professional programme
 The Training Room providing free training sessions
 NACC Nutrition Kitchen with interactive demonstrations from the Care Cook of the Year
 Networking lunch opportunities with professional advisors on a myriad of current topics

If you are aiming your product or service at the elderly care sector you need to have representation at the Care Show.  Your competitors are here, you need to be too!

It really is an unmissable commercial opportunity and the Care Show is an essential marketing and sales tool for any company targeting this sector.

Benefits
 Up to the minute customer leads
 Exposure and profile from branding to the UK’s entire care industry before, during and after the event.
 Networking with senior decision-makers within the UK’s leading care organisations.
 Offering exclusive sales promotions to your key audience
 Increasing your credibility through association with the leading Care magazine ‘Caring Business’
 Creating new business opportunities through higher-brand presence among current and potential customers.
 Educating an influential audience of over 2,000 care professionals about your products and services
 Gaining a higher profile through a free entry in the show guide and website and a free PR service with up to 2,000 free visitor tickets to mail to prospects and customers

The Care Show is presented by Caring Business, the magazine which brings the care sector professional, independent editorial.

Whether your marketing objective is to raise awareness of a new product, build your brand amongst your target market or generate leads for your sales team, the Caring Business portfolio can help you achieve your aims. The portfolio includes Caring Business magazine and website, Caring Business email newsletter, The Care Show, Care Magazine and Care Summits.

Sponsorship Opportunities

In addition to exhibition space at the Care Show there are a multitude of opportunities to enhance your presence or to develop your marketing strategy.

Sponsorship is a key marketing tool and is a crucial part of achieving your business objectives.  It offers the platform to communicate brand values and positioning, enhance awareness, build customer insight and loyalty, gain media exposure, demonstrate competitive differentiation and provide highly targeted marketing.

We offer an extensive range of sponsorship opportunities at the Care Show which can be tailored to meet your marketing needs to ensure that you get the best return possible.

These include:

 Main Show Sponsorship

 Dementia Care Zone - The Dementia Care Zone aims to explore, educate and inform all visitors about the illness, bringing dementia care topics to the forefront of people’s minds.  A comprehensive informational and practical area covering all dementia related topics and issues.  The zone includes specialist seminars, exhibitors, key associations, training, demonstrations and information 

 Seminar Theatre - located on the show floor with professional speakers covering the current hot topics in the Care sector

 NACC Nutrition Kitchen - Working in conjunction with the National Association of Care Catering and their Care Cook of the Year.  The extremely popular sessions in the Nutrition Kitchen contain demonstrations and interactive discussions on the important issue of healthy nutritious food for the Care sector

 The Training Room - Training provided by certified training companies with focus on specific topic areas

 New Product Gallery – Located at the main show entrance, celebrating the wonderful innovations that Care Show exhibitors have developed to benefit the care sector. Visitors can vote on their favourite with the winner being announced at the end of the show

 Garden Café - The place within the hall where visitors can sit down, relax and get refreshments.  This area is also used for any hosted networking events at we may have at the show

 Sensory Area - An innovative Sensory area to link the Garden Café to the Dementia Care Zone.  With sensory and alternative therapy products becoming increasingly popular, the sensory area aims to show what options and products are available, and can be experienced by show visitors.

 ‘Ask the Expert’ Networking Lunch - A relaxed and informal event within the Care Show café bar for visitors to meet and network with key experts on a variety of topics with a free bite to eat.

 Company Networking Events - Host your own networking event at the Care Show.  The ideal way to target show visitors is to invite them to a drinks reception.  To be held in the Cafe bar and could cater for up to 200 guests.

 Registration Desk - Ensure that your company name is the first and last thing visitors see at Care Show.  A fantastic branding opportunity!

 Registration Ticket - Over 180,000 Care Show registration tickets are produced and sent out to potential visitors by either direct mail or in magazine inserts. Can you afford to miss this opportunity to target such a vast audience.

 Visitor Badges - exposure to all pre-registered visitors prior to the show as well as onsite visitors, which provides excellent onsite branding.

Other options include:
 Lanyards
 Event Carrier bags
 Inserts in Show Carrier Bag

Online opportunities include:

Advertising
Target the Care Show website users by advertising on www.careshow.co.uk.  Choose your page, whether it be the Home page or a specific show feature page, you can target everyone who visits the site in the busy lead up the show.

Email updates and Drivers
We send out many email updates to people who have registered for the show and are planning their visit.  We also email our extensive database with email drivers to encourage them to visit the Care Show.

You can have access to all these visitors and potential visitors by advertising on the Care Show emails which we send.

The Care Magazine – The Official Show Preview
Published six weeks before the Care Show, the Care Magazine is the official preview to the show, containing essential information for all event visitors including exhibitor lists, the floor plan and the seminar schedule.  New Features include an essential meeting planner, New Product Gallery preview and Training Room guide.

The Care Magazine is circulated as a stand alone magazine to 19,000 care professionals across the whole of England.  Therefore reaching potential visitors just at the time when they will be planning their show visit.

The Show Guide
The Show Guide is available at the show for all 2000 visitors who attend.  It has the latest exhibitor listing and general show information.