- Your expedition is not contingent upon someone else to get it off the ground.
- You save all that time creating sponsorship documents, researching contact details and making all those phone calls.
- You don’t have to repeatedly pitch to uninterested people on the other end of the phone or grovel to someone you don’t like.
- You’ll be less likely to exaggerate your expedition’s aims.
- You don’t have to compromise any part of your expedition’s ethos to fit with a sponsor’s.
- You don’t need to worry about updating sponsors from the field, you can just focus on being there.
- You have more freedom to say what you really think.
- You can focus more time on raising for a charity.
- There are less “stakeholders” to consider in your decisions. You can just do what you want to do.
- You know you have got where you are through your own hard work and not someone else’s money.
(If you still want/need a sponsor though, you can always try my Sponsorship Resources page)
What do you think? Please do add your thoughts below…