Mixing Golf with Business at Old Trafford? Vendman’s On Target again, but this time, for Macmillan Cancer Care!
Visitors to the Vendman stand at Vendex North are sure to be teed off with Rob Little’s latest fund-raising idea. Vending’s ubiquitous software company is bringing a target-golf challenge to Old Trafford. ‘It’s a sort of cross between the crazy golf you played as a kid and horizontal archery,’ Rob said, and then repeated himself, to prove that we’d heard him right the first time.
‘It seemed like a good way to get people onto the stand and then stay, putt’, he said.
Visitors will be invited to compete for the inaugural, (and quite possible, the only ever) Vendman ‘On Target’ Event Cup. ‘We want people to VOTE for Vendman and help us raise some money for charity’, said Rob.
‘It’s a bit of fun. After a long drive to Old Trafford, Target Golf seemed a fairway to demonstrate that we were a green company’, said Rob, as men in white coats began quietly to gather around him. ‘If they can avoid the awful bunkers of our competitors en-route to our stand – and maybe pick up a birdie in the bar area on the way – then our customers will be ready to chip in their best shot for Macmillan Cancer Care. And that’s what I call a hole in one.’
It’ll be free to enter, but Rob hopes that VOTE Cup competitors will donate a fiver in exchange for five attempts to get on target. The golf hole will be surrounded by a series of concentric circles, like the pretty picture above.
The total number of points accrued after five attempts constitutes the contestant’s score, which will be recorded on a leader board. The winner, that is the person on top of the leader board half an hour before the exhibition closes, will win an i-phone 5 and Vendman will donate a sum to the value in pounds of five times the winning score. So, if the winner shoots a ‘round’ of thirty-nine, then a cheque will be raised for £195.
But that’s not all, as Rob explained. ‘If anybody manages to get a maximum score, we’ll donate £500 in his or her name’, Rob said. ‘Vendex is a bit of fun for us, a chance to touch base and catch up with our customers, but I hope the Vendman VOTE Cup will remind people that, with Vendman, you can really make your business perform up to ten times better.
‘We hope Vendex North visitors will join in the fun’, Rob said, ‘and let’s see if we can raise a tidy sum for Macmillan Cancer Care.
You can find Vendman on Stand G14.
