Rose Bowl plc and Southampton Solent University Unveil Unique Partnership

Accord Offers Increased Opportunities for Students, Fans and Visitors to The Rose Bowl

On Friday 10 February 2012, Chairman of Rose Bowl plc, Rod Bransgrove and Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University, Professor Van Gore signed a one-of-a-kind Partnership Accord designed to increase opportunities for students and improve output for cricket fans and visitors to The Rose Bowl.

The document, which also provides formal recognition and celebration of the close ties that already exist between the two organisations, was signed in The Rose Bowl’s Hambledon Suites in front of representatives from both parties and the local media.

Chief among the aims of the partnership are:

• Enabling students to gain valuable work experience at a venue renowned for national and international cricket and for arena-scale music concerts, particularly in areas of event management, sports journalism and outside broadcast.
• Improved sharing of facilities, particularly audio-visual equipment, to improve the quality of coverage of matches and events held at The Rose Bowl.
• Provision of a city-based Box Office facility for The Rose Bowl, located in the University’s Sir James Matthews building.
• Providing The Rose Bowl’s Cricket department with use the facilities on offer in the Solent University Sports Science department.
• Potential for running and use of Rose Bowl facilities by the University, particularly the development for commercial and educational use of the ‘Indoor Cricket School’.
• Rose Bowl use of “Solent Creatives” arm of the University to engage student body in live marketing and PR initiatives.
• Continued Southampton Solent University brand prominence at the Rose Bowl.
• Providing University staff, students and graduates with discount opportunities to attend cricket matches and events at the Rose Bowl.

Rod Bransgrove said; “We are delighted to be signing this Accord with Southampton Solent University. The prospect of a world-class venue which hosts International cricket and top-class events combining with the expertise, skills and equipment available to the University and its students is very exciting and will, I’m sure, mean that fans, students and visitors to The Rose Bowl will all benefit massively.”

Professor Van Gore said; "Working with Rod on this has been a pleasure and his comments capture perfectly the purpose of our partnership."

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