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Player Sponsorship 2025/26

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It's time for Player Sponsorship for the 2025/2026 season. 

Last season we resumed our sponsorship of a couple of players after a brief hiatus where we could not, with all good conscience, put money into propping up the previous regime under our former CEO. With the club appearing to be back on a more even keel, showing lots more positivity and engagement, it is clear that they are still and needing more support than ever from fans as we enter the 2025/26 season so we will shortly embark on our sponsorship drive for the 2025/26 season.

image.pngLast year we decided to sponsor both Ethan Cairns' and Matthew Strachan's home shirts. We went for these players as over the 20+ years we have been sponsoring ICT players we have always tried to pick youngsters who are breaking into the team and maintain that sponsorship throughout their ICT career.

We were proud to have been the main shirt sponsor of Grant Munro through his entire ICT career from a youth breaking into the team to his final season with the club, then we moved onto sponsorship of Liam Polworth, as well as other players over the years for boots, gloves or other items including record appearance holder Ross Tokely. We also sponsored Cameron Harper for four years, until the end of the 2022/23 season before moving on to Ethan and Matthew last year.

Ethan has moved on for this coming season so we will be looking to sponsor Matty again this year and if we raise enough funds then we will look to see who/what else we can sponsor. Any decision will be put to a vote as we did last year when we chose Ethan and Matthew.

I still have some admin tidy up to do from last year's stuff and need to reset the subscription status of all current members after drawing the winners of the two signed tops so until that is done the option to join the members group will show as 'out of stock' but will open it up once ready.

The format will be the same as previous years - all monies raised will go to the sponsorship. We will focus on getting enough for player home shirts, which will be randomly given to one of our sponsors at the end of the season, and if we raise enough, we will sponsor other player items up to the level of cash received.

 

(INITIAL) PLAYER TO BE SPONSORED: Matthew Strachan + (hopefully) 1 other.

COST
Home Shirt - £450 inc vat. Other costs as shown below. The club mentioned all items were same as last year so the table below should be correct.

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HOW TO TAKE PART

  1. Join the "Player Sponsor" group. We will use the money received from these memberships (minus PayPal fees) to purchase player sponsorship(s) from the club. We will set all memberships - regardless of when ordered - to end on June 1st of each year. This allows us time each year to gauge the interest in continuing for the following season. The cost to join this group remains the same as before at £16.00 (this amounts to £15.00 joining fee plus £1 to cover the PayPal fees). You may purchase multiple memberships if you wish, just amend the total in your shopping cart and add a note when placing the order if it is to cover family members who may not officially be site members!
     

  2. To join the group simply go to this page http://caleythistleonline.com/store/ or access the CTO Store from the main menu at the top. All our site membership upgrades are handled securely via PayPal's platform which will accept direct payment from most credit/debit cards so it should be easy enough to upgrade your membership whether you live in Sneck or somewhere thousands of miles from there. Unfortunately, we do not accept cash payments. 

 

Once we know how many members have joined the group, we will decide on who/what gets sponsored. The first item will be the selected player's Home Kit ... but the more members who upgrade to "Player Sponsor" membership, the more we can sponsor. At the end of the season, members of our sponsor group will be selected at random to receive any gifts we may receive from the club. For any events that occur during the season (like sponsors nights or meet and greets etc.) we will offer first refusal to members of the sponsor group to attend as our representative.  

If you are interested, please add your name to this thread or go ahead and join the sponsor group. You will be marked as paid.png once we confirm payment received via membership upgrade .... (once we have enabled it)

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Updated all payments received. There were a couple of users who show pending because the Paypal transfer did not complete, I have re-sent the invoice and email to them. If your name is not shown paid, and you tried to subscribe then check your email!

Hi. Everytime I go through the process click on confirm and pay this comes up. I’ve tried a fair few times I’ve never managed to get to PayPal yet. Am I doing something the wrong way round. Ps I’m not great with technology tbh 😂😂 it’s an iPhone 14 I’ve also tried iPad and same result if that helps cheers

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Most people have no issue, but I do see you, and a couple of other people on the admin side showing failed for some reason. It does not tell me why, could be security, could be PayPal settings, I don't know. Easiest way is to do it directly through Paypal I think.

Go to PayPal on your phone or computer and go to the "send and request" page: https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/transfer/homepage

Put the email address in as either sponsorship or webadmin @ caleythistleonline.com and it will send a direct payment to the account. Please quote your CTO username in comments somewhere so I know who it is and what it is for. I will manually update one of the pending invoices here as paid.

Thanks I’ll give it a go

That was a lot easier thanks. If anyone else is struggling 👍🏻

Mine originally threw up an error on paypal. It asked for my email and password, told me it was wrong twice so I noticed I could pay direct by card. When transaction went through it thanked me for paying by paypal although it never took the email or password I offered.

Anyway, it seemed to have worked somehow.

Yep, it's a PayPal transaction on my bank account...

That’s me paid. Thanks for organising it again.

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    Great Article published on the Courier website yesterday about our current sponsored player Matthew Strachan that pretty much epitomises why we have always tried to sponsor up and coming youngsters over the years:

    Inverness Courier
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    Former Millburn Academy pupil proud to break into Caley T...

    He has started both League Cup group games so far.

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    Many thanks folks - we are over the line for Matthew Strachan, and I will leave it open to see if any stragglers want to add something more. Given the slowdown in sponsorship coming in, I think its unlikely we get another home kit sponsorship like we did last year, but we can speak to the club and see what is possible if we reach any other milestones in terms of amount raised.

    Got there at last - sorry it took so long. I was a bit freaked out by all the site updates (I am such a technophobe and hate any changes), but actually it was dead easy once I tried. Hopefully others will have a go and we might get another player sponsor.ictscarfThanks Scotty

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    Me x 2 Thanks Scotty.. Frighteninglyy easy!

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    Thanks to all so far - we have reached the target for one home sponsorship (Matthew Strachan's shirt) and are part way to another sponsorship of some sort ... Hoping for a bit of a late rush to enable us to do a second shirt, but if not we are only a few away from one of the other items like training kit, boots etc.

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    Payment for Matthew Strachan sponsorship has now been made. We will continue to collect names for a while to see what else we can sponsor and all names will go into the hat at the end of the season to be drawn for any goodies we receive from the club in return.

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