Fabulous Business Friends
Creation’s guide to achieving corporate brilliance
part 1: How to sort out smart client entertainment AND support local theatre (for less than the cost of your daily frothy coffee).
So you’re checking out our website…and hopefully you’ve seen our shows. That makes you just the sort of cultured, clever and lovely person we’d like on our side.
Flattery not working? OK, how about this…we think this is probably THE most cost-effective way to entertain clients, customers or staff and support Oxford’s local theatre company at the same time.
So what’s it all about? It’s simple. You sign up as a Business Friend and…
- You get 15 free and 10 half price tickets to Creation productions each year.
- We invite you to networking and social events, press nights, meet the cast events – and bring your clients.
- You can advertise in our programme and we’ll talk about reciprocal publicity opportunities.
- You get discounted theatre workshops for your employees’ children.
- We give you a whacking great big THANK YOU in show programmes and on our website.
- If we really like you we might chuck in a duster for your new halo.
So what does it cost? Well, it’s less than your daily ‘Cappulattechino’ – £600 (£300 if you’re a school, a charity or in the public sector) for a whole year. And the benefits? A rather splendid warm feeling you get from being part of Creation, supporting theatre in Oxford and having somewhere really different to take your clients.
Will you think about it? If you drop us an e-mail we’ll get in touch to tell you more. Or just give us a call if it’s easier.
Meet our Business Friends. We think they are brilliant:
Audley Travel
www.audleytravel.com
A multi award-winning travel operator that creates tailor-made holidays and tours for the discerning traveller.
Blackwell’s
www.bookshop.blackwell.co.uk
Voted Winner of the Retail Chain of the Year at the 2007 Retail Bookseller Awards, Blackwell has an enviable reputation as a bookseller specialising in academic titles. We are dead excited to be bringing Dr Faustus to its historic Oxford flagship store.
D’Overbroeck’s College
www.doverbroecks.com
d’Overbroeck’s College is a brilliant 11-18 coeducational independent school in Oxford. The Good Schools Guide describes it as ‘a place of energy and laughter, of single-minded determination among students to do the best they can.’
Ecco
www.ecco-shoes.co.uk
If you find yourself checking out the actors’ fab footwear in Tales From King James or Antony & Cleopatra, it’s all thanks to our marvellous friends at Ecco Oxford! Check out their lovely store in New Inn Hall Street or have a look at their website.
Freeman Christie
www.freemanchristie.com
A marvellous communication agency that helps you acquire new customers, retain them and explain stuff. That’s brand development, marketing campaigns and complex information communication projects. And coffee. Lots of coffee.
Henmans LLP
www.henmansllp.co.uk
Henmans is a regional law firm based in Oxford with a national reputation for heavyweight expertise in its specialist areas. One of Oxford’s largest law firms, Henman’s has been ranked in the top ten firms in the country for charity work.
HMG Law
www.hmg-law.co.uk
Don’t make a deal with the Devil – make a will with HMG Law – a long established law firm with a strong reputation for looking after the interests of its clients ranging from the private individual through to commercial organisations, charities and the Arts.
Magdalen College School
www.mcsoxford.org
One of our favourite workshop venues (which also hosted some of our early shows), Magdalen College School is a fantastic independent school for boys between 7 and 16 and a co-educational sixth form.
MINI Plant Oxford
www.mini-production-triangle.com
Our wonderful winter hosts for the past ten years…MINI is more than just a brand. MINI is a state of mind. Extroverted. Spontaneous. Different. We think they’re great!
NASUWT
www.nasuwt.org.uk
NASUWT is the largest union representing teachers and headteachers throughout the UK. We are delighted to be supported by the West Oxfordshire Association.
One
www.oneltd.co.uk
Love Creation’s sparkly new look? Yeah, so do we…and it’s all thanks to the ludicrously talented folk at One, a brilliantly bonkers design agency based in an old slaughterhouse in Summertown.
Oxford University Press
www.oup.com
From its origins in the late 15th century, OUP is now one of the largest publishers in the UK, and the largest university press in the world. Impressive, don’t you think?
Said Business School
www.sbs.ox.ac.uk
Our summer hosts since 2009, Oxford University’s Saïd Business School is one of Europe’s youngest and most entrepreneurial business schools, with a reputation for innovative business education.
Vista Consulting
www.vista.uk.com
VISTA seek to stimulate relationships to flourish and make a difference in the world. Their vision is that all visionary organisations and communities have VISTA thinking as part of their story.