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	<title>Synergy Blog &#187; Olympics</title>
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		<title>Synergy Loves&#8230;David Beckham plays blind football for Sainsbury’s</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20120125/synergy-loves-david-beckham-plays-blind-football-for-sainsbury%e2%80%99s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Enoch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened To promote its sponsorship of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Sainsbury’s created a short video of David Beckham being put through his paces by David Clarke, team GB&#8217;s Blind Football legend. Widely seeded online, on TV and in cinemas, the video raises awareness of the Sainsbury&#8217;s 1 Million Kids Challenge, which aims to get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Olympics are a lot like Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20111222/why-the-olympics-are-a-lot-like-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Crow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this we are only three days away from Christmas Day and, in our industry anyway, many thoughts beyond that are inevitably turning to the New Year and London 2012. So it seemed entirely appropriate, for my last post of the year, to write about my belief that the Olympic Games – Summer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Government grassroots sport strategy is good news for sponsors &#8211; and a wake-up call for governing bodies</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20111207/new-government-grassroots-sport-strategy-is-good-news-for-sponsors-and-a-wake-up-call-for-governing-bodies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20111207/new-government-grassroots-sport-strategy-is-good-news-for-sponsors-and-a-wake-up-call-for-governing-bodies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Crow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, The Times published an article by Olympics Correspondent Ashling O’Connor with major implications for how London 2012 will come to be viewed and, going forward, for the value to brands of grassroots sports sponsorship and marketing in the UK. Headlined ’2012 legacy plan for a fitter Britain is quietly scrapped’ and substantiated by an exclusive interview with Olympics Secretary Jeremy Hunt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 2012 Volunteer&#8217;s Story So Far&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20111118/a-2012-volunteers-story-so-far/</link>
		<comments>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20111118/a-2012-volunteers-story-so-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿I was in Auckland with the British and Irish Lions when London was awarded the 2012 Olympic Games. Very excited, my first thought was ‘how can I get involved’? Roll on two years and my excitement grew when I filled in my volunteer form. After working at Synergy for nearly 30 years and with an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synergy Loves&#8230; the M&amp;S &#8216;On Your Marks&#8217; Westfield Stratford campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20111013/synergy-loves-the-ms-on-your-marks-westfield-stratford-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20111013/synergy-loves-the-ms-on-your-marks-westfield-stratford-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Crow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Happened? On Tuesday September 13, Westfield Stratford City opened its doors to the public. Against the background of a day-long blaze of publicity, Mayor of London Boris Johnson cut the opening ribbon whilst invoking Chaucer, followed by pop diva Nicole Scherzinger strutting her stuff before a (slightly bemused) VIP audience. But by far the most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betfair Beach Volleyball Bum-vertising</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110901/betfair-beach-volleyball-bum-vertising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110901/betfair-beach-volleyball-bum-vertising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Ayling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Synergy towers we&#8217;re always looking for fun, quirky ideas that have genuine media traction while fitting with our clients&#8217; target audiences and business objectives. So with the London 2012 test events rolling into town the Betfair team put our thinking hats on and looked at how Betfair could get involved. We focused specifically on the beach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMW celebrates a year to go</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110901/bmw-celebrate-a-year-to-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110901/bmw-celebrate-a-year-to-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don’t need reminding that the 27th July 2011 was not just another day in our calendars. With one year to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, celebrations spread across the UK far and wide. To celebrate this milestone and engage staff in BMW’s London 2012 Partnership, Synergy were tasked with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A(nother) London 2012 blog&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110826/another-london-2012-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110826/another-london-2012-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Wilkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know the Olympic Games is coming to town. It&#8217;s getting closer and the clock is ticking, will we cope? Will the London Tube system handle all the extra people? How many medals will Team GB win? Anyone fancy a legacy? Will it make kids thin again? All those words are echoing around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Ready for 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110518/get-ready-for-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110518/get-ready-for-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Gladstone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 10th 2011. As the rest of the nation settled down to the new series of The Apprentice, switched on SKY Sports to watch Manchester City destroy Tottenham’s season, or celebrated the anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s inauguration as President of South Africa, over fourty of INSEAD’s finest alumni gathered at Engine to discuss another momentous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaymer and Backley in BMW Ultimate Driving Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110518/kaymer-and-backley-in-bmw-ultimate-driving-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.synergy-sponsorship.com/blog/20110518/kaymer-and-backley-in-bmw-ultimate-driving-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 17:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Ayling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BMW challenged Synergy to develop a PR stunt that would combine their sponsorship of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and the London 2012 Games. So we challenged former world number one golfer Martin Kaymer and three time Olympic medallist Steve Backley to go head-to-head in a multisport play-off from Wentworth’s first tee. With wedge [...]]]></description>
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