Room Naming Sponsorship
As part of our building expansion program, we have welcomed a number of local businesses that have stepped up to a significant sponsorship for corporate naming rights. Their contributions over a ten year period help us make the changes and expansion of our centre to better serve our clients.
Carling Motors Volvo and Mazda
Carling Motors Volvo and Mazda were our first contracted sponsor. Their sponsored room, the Activity Room, located on our lower -level. It’s a multipurpose room used for our WAVE program, spinning, aerial yoga, TRX, afterschool program and more. Thank you, Carling Motors, for helping us get bigger and better! Visit them at http://carlingmotors.ca
Ottawa Physiotherapy and Sport Clinics
Located upstairs, the Assembly Hall is our biggest room and hosts daily fitness programs as well as after school programs, Hoop jams, rentals and more. Located on the upper level, follow the music to find it! Ottawa Physiotherapy and Sport Clinics is a busy and friendly clinic with three locations, offering help for those recovering from a sports injury or dealing with chronic pain, who provide services including acupuncture, massage therapy, aqua therapy, and custom knee bracing. Their Westboro Clinic is located at 368 Churchill Avenue North. www.optsc.com
Morris Home Team
The Gym, sponsored by Morris Home Team, is our newest room located at the upper level of the centre, completed in the Spring of 2019. Named in honour of Pat and Susan Morris, one of our first and most loyal sponsors, it is a busy space for all ages and abilities. Morris Home Team is part of the Royal Lepage Realty group, and is a friendly and very busy Westboro Real estate specialist. www.morrishometeam.com
Other Sponsors
At Dovercourt, one of the ways we keep prices affordable, purchase new equipment, run special events and support our charitable initiatives is through help from several local businesses. As a local charity, we rely on their help and in all of our sponsorship relationships, it has been about much more than just a trade of money for exposure, each one has a story.
Westboro Village
This is our local business improvement area association, and they were our very first sponsor for projects such as Music in the Park, the wading pool paint project, and of course, our friendly and huggable mascot Dovercat.
As a successful social enterprise, Dovercourt relies on its success in sales of programs for its charitable works. Marketing plays a key role in that effort, and purchasing a mascot costume (Dovercat) was a big effort for us. Luckily, the WBIA was a great partner in this purchase, and Dovercat is now a regular visitor to our programs, birthday parties, and special events and is well known not only in Westboro, but across Ottawa. Of course, he also hangs out at store openings and Westboro Village events such as street sales, WESTFEST, and the fall Halloween event. I guess you could say that the Westboro Village and Dovercourt love cats too. www.westborovillage.com
Morris Home Team
This local real estate firm, part of the Royal Lepage Group, has been a sponsor of many things for Dovercourt, and the best thing about this long friendship is that they came to us! Pat and Susan Morris, from their experience as realtors and as a local family, were well aware of the value of what Dovercourt provides in the community, and asked how they could help. As one of our very first sponsors, this relationship grew from the sponsorship of the skating show element of the winter carnival, to the provision of the Dovercat funmobile (our cargo van), and our bouncy house. They have added to this very significant help every year, sponsoring one of the water safety banners in the pool, sponsoring recreation staff uniforms, contributing to our growing community events, and becoming a sponsor of our community stage at WESTFEST last year. A great friend to Dovercourt, Pat and Susan were recognized as one of 20 “greats” that helped Dovercourt become what it is today at our 20th anniversary celebration in 2007. www.morrishometeam.com
Sean McCann, The Guy with the Dog Real Estate Group
This local real estate company joined us as sponsor of our Garage band Alley and Dog Pond at WESTFEST, and is now the sponsor of our free swims for children and youth on Friday nights. These are the last of the free public swims at public pools in Ottawa, and we are delighted to have his support in keeping them happening, and of course, he will be helping us with our annual dog swim at the end of the summer season. We love dogs too, Sean! www.theguywiththedog.com
