We hope that the Taverner Cup will become one of Canada's premier birding events offering fun, strong competition for birders, and at the same time raise money for important environmental projects in eastern Ontario and western Quebec. Corporate sponsors will also assume the participants' fee for the team which takes your name for promotional purposes. In this case you become a co-sponsor but still receive full promotional benefit. If you are the only sponsor, the fee would go to the Fletcher Wildlife Garden.
Corporations also pay the participants' fees.
The participant fee will be used to pay for refreshments on the evening of the event, for the brunch the next day, for promotion, and for the basic administration costs which includes telephone, printing and postage etc. We point out that while we anticipate that most sponsors will be organizations and businesses directly related to birding, a non-birder business like a car dealership, a gas company, a chemical company, a courier company or a sporting goods store, can still sponsor a Taverner Cup team. All it requires is for the team to be co-sponsored by an organization directly involved with birds, natural history or the environment. Example of co-sponsors include bird and naturalist clubs, foundations, friends organizations, government agencies, and institutions. You will find that most teams that approach you will be officially sponsored by one of these organizations.