Corporate Sponsorship

Corporate Sponsorship of WHRN offers several significant advantages for your business, including:

High-Quality Exposure: Gain prominent visibility at the annual WHRN Symposium – a major rural health research event, enhancing your organisation’s profile within the sector.
An opportunity to make a difference: your sponsorship will directly support rural health research initiatives that help improve health outcomes for those in rural and remote NSW.
Brand Visibility: Enhance your brand’s presence through our social media channels, website, and marketing materials, increasing recognition among target audiences.

Sponsorship Opportunities

12 MONTH SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE: $9,000

This sponsorship package includes;

Priority placement of your corporate logo on the WHRN website and all email communications and newsletters
Priority placement of your logo and acknowledgment at WHRN2025 Research Symposium as a Gold corporate sponsor.
Your corporate logo at the event and on Symposium promotional material and corporate signage at the gala awards event
Free trade show opportunity at the symposium
2 free tickets to the Gala Dinner
Full page/screen advertisement on the digital Symposium displays and printed and online Symposium and Awards event program
Opportunity to contribute a gift to be included as the lucky door prize.

12 MONTH SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE: $4,000

This sponsorship package includes;

Placement of your corporate logo on the WHRN website and all email communications and newsletters
Acknowledgment at WHRN2025 Research Symposium as a Silver corporate sponsor.
Your corporate logo at the event and on Symposium promotional material
Free trade show opportunity at the Symposium
Full page/screen advertisement on the digital Symposium displays and printed and online Symposium and Awards event program

12 MONTH SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE: $1,500

This sponsorship package includes;

Placement of your corporate logo on the WHRN website and all email communications and newsletters
Acknowledgment at WHRN2025 Research Symposium as a Bronze corporate sponsor.
Your corporate logo at the event and on Symposium promotional material

EXCLUSIVE SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE: $8,000

This package includes;

Acknowledgment as Gala event sponsor.
Opportunity to provide a welcome address at the awards event.
Your corporate logo at the event and on Symposium promotional material and corporate signage at the gala event.
Full page advertisement in the electronic, printed displays and online awards event program.
4 complimentary tickets for the awards event

Your sponsorship will help us host this prestigious event that allows us to highlight and acknowledge the wonderful work health researchers are doing throughout Western NSW.

To date WHRN has;

accepted over 99 nominations for Researcher of the Year.
recognised 27 Western NSW Researchers of the Year’ awards
provided five $1000 prize grants to the ‘Aboriginal Researcher of the Year’

Sponsorship opportunities: $1,500 - $7,500

	TECHNOLOGY /STREAMING SPONSOR $7500	This will allow the Day 2 plenary and keynotes to be recorded or streamed across the region. Recordings will be made available on demand after the Symposium. The network strongly believes in supporting equity of access and this service is seen as a key component of the 2025 Symposium
	VENUE SPONSOR $6000	We are seeking sponsorship support for the venue costs to maximise the number of workshops on Day 1 and concurrent streams on offer for the scientific programme on Day 2.
	DELEGATE REGISTRATION OR TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION SPONSOR 12 x $500	We are seeking sponsorship to provide up to 12 x $500 scholarships to support registration, travel or accommodation costs to for western or far western Aboriginal health workers, clinicians or health professional students to attend the Symposium.
	RECHARGE SPONSOR $2000	Provide the hot coffee barista to be available during networking breaks on Day 2 of the Symposium to re-energise face to face connections.
	WORKSHOP SPONSORS $2000 - $5000	Opportunities are open to sponsor a workshop on Day 1 of the Symposium. This could be cash or in kind sponsorship to support the travel and accommodation costs for workshop hosts.
	TRADE EXHIBITOR PACKAGES $1500	The Full Trade Exhibitor package includes a designated exhibitor stand for the 2 days of the Symposium and 1 complimentary 50% discount for the full symposium and awards event registration for 1x ticket.