How You Can Help

Background

Crime Stoppers is a non-profit, charitable organization that combines the best efforts of the community, the media and the police in the fight against crime.

Each week the media appeals for information about unsolved crimes. A “Crime of the Week” is highlighted” in newspaper articles, radio spots and television re-enactments.

A group of dedicated, concerned citizens make up a civilian Board of Directors for Crime Stoppers of London, Middlesex and Elgin and is the foundation behind the program. Board members raise, control and administer funds, organize reward payments to callers and promote the program.

Our regular fundraisers such as Jailathon, our Golf Tournament and various raffles fund our 24 hours TIPS line and administrative costs. Our TIPS line is the heart of our program, providing the information for investigations that have led to the seizure of over $2 million worth of drugs and weapons from our streets in the first five months of 2007.

Crime Stoppers does not use sponsor money for promotions or advertising. Our people and passion do our promotion work through our program. YOU can help by donating toward our events!! A full budget will be provided upon request.

How You Can Help London-Elgin-Middlesex Crime Stoppers

Student Symposium

Every year, approximately 150 students and educators from Thames Valley District School Board and the London District Catholic Board gather for a day of education and feedback with the London-Elgin-Middlesex Crime Stoppers and police officers from various agencies in London. The day allows the students to participate in topics and seminars regarding school safety, internet crime and bullying and features a motivational keynote speaker. Crime Stoppers is currently searching for a sponsor for this keynote speaker. This sponsorship would place your company or business in the platinum category on our internet site and your logo or link will feature on boldly printed table talkers for all the London-Elgin-Middlesex Crime Stoppers members at the symposium and all other applicable Crime Stopper events. Your company or business will feature as a platinum sponsor for one year. A $5000.-$10,000.00 donation would place your business as a platinum sponsor. A full budget will be provided upon request.

Golf Tournament

Crime Stoppers is a not-for-profit, charitable organization that runs their own fundraising events. In keeping with this theme, we are seeking "hole sponsors" to award prizes to our golfers. This will assist us in drawing a large turnout that we need to make this event profitable, while keeping costs reasonable for our golfers. We would welcome your company or business to join us as a sponsor at our event to headline the golf tournament. Your business would be named as the golf tournament sponsor, with a banner at the tournament, gold or silver sponsor table talkers all year at all our events applicable, and a link or category mention on our internet site. Your company or business may donate at the silver level for this tournament, from $1000 to $4999, or at the bronze level, from $500 to $999.

Vehicle Wraps or Decals

Another concept our Executive has for partnership between your company or business and Crime Stoppers is to have you become a sponsor to “wrap” one of our donated vehicles. The Crime Stopper vehicles are used by our two program coordinators from the London City Police and the OPP. These vans drive around the city and other municipalities, park at local businesses and events, and are viewed often on television as backdrops for our Crime Stoppers re-enactments featured on the A-Channel News and Rogers Cable TV. The Ontario Association of Crime Stoppers Programs (OACS) awards the Best Vehicle Award every year at the OACS Provincial Training Conference in early June. A new wrap for our van, featuring modern new graphics that would highlight your new involvement with the program, might just win this award for our program!!

Why Consider These Options?

Crime Stoppers represents many municipalities outside of the City of London. We promote our Program and our sponsors to Middlesex and Elgin County, the Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc and First Nations through our membership, events and our internet site.

Crime Stoppers has great partnerships already established: we collaborate with media, police, school boards, the Humane Society and community businesses. We are currently joining forces with the University of Western Ontario, First Nations, the Ontario Racing Commission, Hydro One and many more.

We assist police in the protection of the most vulnerable in society: the elderly, children, animals and even the general public when they are too frightened to contact police directly. In addition, we place tipster/informant confidentiality as our highest priority.

We believe our promotional partnership package holds many options from which to choose. We are also willing to listen to ideas from your marketing and promotion department. At whatever level, we believe your company or business stands to benefit for years to come by promoting the company as a highly responsible and concerned corporate citizen.

We appreciate your consideration and we look forward to working together!