Partners

PLEASE NOTE. This page was created in the club's early days and has not been updated to reflect the current situation. The page is hidden from the club's website, but may still turn up in Google search results. Partnerships and sponsorship relationships are created on the basis of up-to-date information, but no dedicated page has been created for it. You can read about partnership opportunities more recently in the article we published in 2022.

Applying to become a partner

Are you interested in working with us and in the opportunities that could bring? Aisti Sport ry is a Vantaa-based goalball club looking for partners to support its work. The purpose of Aisti Sport's activities is to develop the disability sport of goalball and to advance inclusion between visually impaired and non-disabled people. It also aims to promote its members' health and wellbeing through an inclusive environment. In its partnerships, Aisti Sport seeks reciprocal cooperation in which all parties benefit. Below is a clear and comprehensive list of the kind of fruitful cooperation we could build together, and through it create more encounters between visually impaired and non-disabled people. Come and help build a better society with Aisti Sport!

What Aisti Sport can offer partners

1. Visibility

• Marketing for your company or organisation at Aisti Sport events, through advertising or in the event's social media posts. • Your company's or organisation's logos displayed on the aistisport.com website, plus news coverage of the agreement. • Advertising for your company or organisation in Aisti Sport's social media posts. • Your company's or organisation's marks printed on Aisti Sport equipment.

2. Sport demos

• Aisti Sport can offer partners goalball taster sessions. • Thanks to their "extreme experience", the sport demos have been genuinely popular and well liked among people who have never tried the sport before. Suitable for anyone. • Aisti Sport provides the equipment and skilled coaching.

3. Experiences

• Aisti Sport can offer a company or organisation a goalball taster session, or an experience of another sport for visually impaired athletes, for staff wellbeing days or other occasions. • Goalball — or blind football, for that matter — experienced together as a group is an event that builds team spirit and communication, and is guaranteed to be fun and memorable. • These experiences are certain to be memorable and genuinely eye-opening!

4. Athlete and visually impaired speakers

• Aisti Sport can offer a company or organisation athletes at Paralympic level to speak and tell their athlete's story in goalball. • Athletes' stories make for engaging and inspiring events. • Athletes' stories also work well for a company's staff wellbeing days, for example, or other occasions where inspiring programming is wanted. • Our visually impaired members are well placed to talk about visual impairment and everyday life, about living, about assistive devices, and about the extraordinary possibilities that exist alongside limited sight.

What Aisti Sport would like from potential partners

1. Financial support for events

• Aisti Sport organises tournaments in the national goalball leagues and seeks financial support to cover the events' costs, and so to raise funds in support of the purpose of its work. • The aim is to improve the quality of events through the equipment and materials used in running them — Aisti Sport branded banners, for example, and our own equipment for live streaming and sound. • Aisti Sport also represents the sport at various sport and leisure events, which are often attended by volunteers, with members giving their own time to the work.

2. Materials and equipment for events and activities

• Aisti Sport needs playing equipment for goalball demos and taster sessions. • For goalball matches at tournaments, Aisti Sport needs skin tape and make-up pads or round plasters for covering players' eyes. • The association also needs string and tapes at both tournaments and representative events, to mark out the court boundaries. • Various banners, flyers, balloons and other decorations to improve the visual look of the venue and to promote the event.

3. Financial support for activities generally

• Funds to maintain and develop our own website. • Funds to acquire training equipment and venues. • Funds towards the cost of the teams' match shirts. • Funds for Aisti's representative teams to take part in top international tournaments.

4. Kit for kit managers, coaches and club representatives

• Aisti Sport aims to acquire kit for team representatives to use in representative duties at tournaments and other events. • Club kit worn by team representatives strengthens a sense of belonging.

Agreeing a partnership

If you are interested in building a possible partnership with Aisti Sport ry, do not hesitate to get in touch. Aisti Sport wants to create fruitful partnerships that develop activity in line with both the partner's and Aisti Sport's purpose. Let's do good together and create partnerships. Contact Aisti Sport ry's chair Miika Honkanen (tel. 050 581 5389 / )

Let's negotiate the most fruitful cooperation between our organisations together!

Donations

Aisti Sport ry can accept donations in support of its work, and donated funds are directed straight into activity that serves the association's purpose. To make a donation, transfer the amount you wish to account number FI83 4055 0016 5578 33, payee Aisti Sport ry, and write "donation" in the message field. We would be glad to hear the reasons behind your donation at , and will thank you as you deserve.