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Looking For Suggestions and Sponsorship For An Off-beat Road-trip


Hi!

I am a travel-blogger and I am looking to participate in an off-beat adventure event.

What am I looking for? Sponsorship ideas.

For? An event called the great Auto-Rickshaw Run. I want to participate in the August edition, which means, I will travel from Shillong to Kochi in an autorickshaw, within 2 weeks. It is a team event. We take turns to drive the autorickshaw. 

Sponsorship Amount? The entry fee is £1595. Another £1600 (which includes £1000 refundable deposit) as miscellaneous. Here is the link for this.

Why am I posting it on this forum? 
Because I need the forum to help me with the following:
a) Figuring out what can I offer as a Travel-blogger and photographer, that a company wouldn’t mind sponsoring my participation. Something that makes a lot of sense to them, and the give-and-take doesn’t pinch.
I have been the official blogger for event like MTB Shimla 2014 (mountain-biking). I write a travel blog called A Borrowed Backpack.

b) Companies that would happily sponsor it. I was thinking of approaching Piaggio (since they manufacture the autorickshaws, but then, my thought process ends right there.)

Limitations: While we are at it, I want to clarify that somethings are practically impossible for me to commit or to do justice to. 
Because of the unpredictable nature of the event, it would be stupid if I say that I shall be posting minute-by-minute update of the event. I have done adventure events before too, and it is near-impossible to write a blog-post each day, or write at least something that portrays the whole experience honestly.
I can:
Offer to photo-blog.
Offer to write about my experience as a participant to the event.
What else? You suggest please. 

My participation depends solely on the sponsorship. If I get it, there won’t be anyone happier.

I am tweetable at: @raidivya27

Email: raidivya@hotmail.com

The images have been taken from https://www.theadventurists.com/rickshaw-run/

Thank you for reading.

🙂

Edit 1:

Met fellow comrades at the Rodinhood Delhi Unmeet last evening. Here is the update:
1) Akshay and Blaze suggested that I focus on crowd-funding. (Only road-block being that Wishberry does not have ‘Travel’ segment on its website. So a dead-end of sorts there.)

2) Looking for media-tie ups from both print and digital arena.

Edit 2:

Here is the elevator-pitch:

https://aborrowedbackpack.com/elevator-pitch/

and this is the crowd-funding link:

https://igg.me/at/mlf4WE8AEJs/x/10883913