CLIPPER EVENTS WORKS WITH A NUMBER OF SPONSORS AND PARTNERS AND SUPPORTS THREE MAIN CHARITIES
Leading Lights is the innovative learning experiences and events partner for Clipper Events. Using professional training facilitators and highly skilled skippers from the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, Leading Lights delivers essential learning from the ultimate team sport, ocean racing. Drawing parallels between high performing teams in sailing with high performing teams in business, Leading Lights captures the experiences, insight and lessons learned on how to achieve success. The company’s mission is to share these powerful learning experiences with business leaders and teams, to enable them to learn, develop and excel.
Event Sponsors
Mobile Promotions works in partnership with Clipper Events to offer premium experiences for leading brands. Their affiliation programmes are designed to max out on style and quality, nurturing partnerships that allow clients an exclusive insight with such tours as the Mercedes-Benz factory and heritage experiences, as well as the truly behind the scenes trips within sports and culture: Formula One, Rioja wines, Moët et Chandon, Veuve Clicquot and Ruinart champagnes.
Nautica Watches is the Timing Partner for the Clipper Industry Series. The watches combine Italian styling, meticulous attention to detail and sport performance to create truly unique timepieces inspired by a long and esteemed heritage in sailing. Nautica Watches fuses design and functionality to reflect a lifestyle of energy and activity through the creation of iconic collections best described as modern classics.
Benromach Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky is the Official Whisky of the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race and Clipper Events. Benromach offers a single malt with distinctive qualities reflecting its exclusive handmade credentials, as well as encapsulating the self reliance, sophistication and modern values of Scotland today.
Event Partners
Albourne Village supports Macmillan Cancer Support through its media partnership with the Clipper Hedge Fund Cup. Albourne Village is a free and unique Internet-based knowledge economy for the Alternative Investment and Private Equity community. The site has been designed as an ideal environment for evolving hedge fund news, intellectual property, content and debates on current issues, as well as a valuable source of commercial contacts.
Greening Partners and Clipper Events share a common bond through their partnership: a commitment to excellence and the development of people. Greenings is a specialist executive recruitment firm with a difference, focusing in the converging space in and around Retail Financial Services. With more than 19 years cross-border experience Greenings prides itself on discretion, success, value for money and genuine, long term relationships.
The Mace Group, in partnership with Clipper Events, hosts and organises the Mace Clipper Challenge in aid of the Philip Green Memorial Trust. The Mace Group is the world's most accomplished consultancy and construction firm with a reputation for finding the best solutions to complex property and real estate challenges.
Charities
The Philip Green Memorial Trust is the official charity for the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and one of the charities supported by Clipper Events. Since 2008 Clipper Events has raised more than £125,000 for PGMT through events including the Mace Clipper Challenge in association with Nautica Watches and the Berkeley Homes Clipper Challenge. The charity helps sick and disabled children all over the UK and overseas. It supports welfare, medical and educational projects as well as helping individual children to lead a normal life.
The Clipper Hedge Funds Cup in association with Albourne Village raises money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The charity exists to help improve the lives of people living with cancer and their families and carers, and is a source of support and a force for change.
The Clipper City Challenge in association with Benromach and Nautica Watches raises money for Sail 4 Cancer. The charity aims to improve the quality of life for individuals and their families who have been affected by cancer. The organisation offers a variety of sailing experiences for individuals affected by cancer and their families, the recently bereaved and carers, thereby giving them the opportunity to switch off from the often harsh realities of everyday life. Sail 4 Cancer also awards grants for the provision of equipment within cancer wards and hospices.
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Marine event management company offering Thames river cruises, corporate events, private parties and experience days on Tall ships, Thames sailing barges, motor cruisers and paddle steamers.