Businesses have been flocking to sign up to sponsor the Minerva’s Owls of Bath sculpture trail coming to the city this summer.
Following a flurry of interest in the project, organisers have now extended the ‘early bird’ discount for sponsors until next Friday, March 16. Almost 20 sponsors are now confirmed for the 100 owls with nearly 30 more waiting in the wings.
The latest firms to sign up include new Gold Sponsor Norland College and Owl sponsors The Silver Shop, law firm Mogers Drewett, The Ivy Bath Brasserie, Holbourne Park, Bath Aqua Glass, Monkton Prep School, The Norie Trust, Bath Quays, The Owlery and BMI Bath Clinic.
Pictured: Guy Henderson, Kirsty Whiting and Nicole Jemson of SouthGate with their owls
They join headline sponsors SouthGate Bath and Gold sponsors accountants MHA Monahans, Bath BID, car dealer Allen Ford and the Bath Percent Club.
Minerva’s Owls of Bath 2018 is being brought to the city by the same team behind the enormously popular King Bladud’s Pigs in 2008 – one of the UK’s first major sculpture trails of its kind – and the Lions of Bath two years later.
The 100 owl sculptures will be placed in and around the streets of Bath for three months to celebrate Bath’s Roman heritage.
All the large owls will be auctioned for charity in late October while the owlets will return to the schools and community groups that decorated them as a lasting legacy of the event.
All the event profits will be donated to four local charities – 70% to the Royal United Hospital’s new Cancer Centre and 30% to Bath Young Carers, the Roman Baths Archway Project and the UK Little Owl Project, which is based in Bath.
Minerva’s Owls organiser Megan Witty said: “We’ve had a fantastic response from businesses, schools and artists since we announced the Owls were swooping into Bath last month.
“The city-wide sculpture trail promises to be a fun and colourful three-month event for Bath and the surrounding region, and a great project to be associated with, so we urge any interested parties to get in touch now and take advantage of our extended early bird discount.”
For more information and to download a sponsor pack, visit www.minervasowls.org
