Sponsor a Tea & Tech morning

For local sponsors

A one-pager handed to a prospective sponsor in person or attached to a short email. A4, printed double-sided if needed but designed to fit on one side.

What it is

Tea & Tech is a free Tuesday morning for people over 65 in [town] who’d like to get the hang of the AI everyone’s talking about — without feeling like they’re back in school. Tea, scones from the local bakery, and a patient hand.

Each morning, 8–15 people leave with a new skill on their own phone, a booklet for the kitchen table, and a reason to come back.

The standing tagline is “Pop in if you don’t want to wait til the weekend.” Older adults rely on family for the small tech questions, and family is busy until Saturday. Tea & Tech is the Tuesday morning answer.

What sponsoring covers

€[X] pays for one morning:

Tea, coffee, milk, sugar, biscuits, and scones or buns from a local bakery for 15 people.
A printed 8-page booklet for every attendee, with the cheat sheet they take home.
Name badges and table sundries.
A small honorarium for the host’s time.

Anything left over rolls into the next morning.

What you get

Your logo on the booklet. Back cover. 15 copies handed out, plus 5 more on noticeboards around town.
Your logo on the poster. 20 copies in shop windows the week before — SuperValu, the post office, the credit union, the library, the GP waiting room.
A 60-second hello at the start of the morning. A representative from your business says a brief welcome. Not a pitch — a hello.
A named thank-you at the end of the morning, by the host.
A photograph of the room (no faces unless permitted) for your own use afterwards.

What you don’t get

We’re explicit about this because it’s why people come back, and why the next sponsor is easier to sign:

No attendee contact details. We don’t collect them, and we wouldn’t share them if we did.
No sales pitch to the room. Sixty seconds, that’s the deal. The morning is about the learners, not the sponsor.
No exclusivity. Other local businesses can sponsor other mornings. Tea & Tech belongs to the town, not to one company.

Why this is worth your money

You will not get a measurable sales uplift from sponsoring Tea & Tech. If that’s what you’re looking for, this is the wrong thing.

What you will get:

Goodwill with the over-65 demographic in your town, the demographic most likely to be your existing customers, and most likely to tell their neighbours about a small kindness.
A photograph and a short story for your own newsletter, social media, or AGM. “We sponsored 15 of our older neighbours to get the hang of this AI thing.”
Permission to keep doing it. Sponsoring one morning makes sponsoring four easy. Sponsoring four makes you the local business that does this. That’s a longer game than a flyer.

The credit unions, in particular, often have a community development budget that exists for exactly this kind of thing. So do the larger SuperValu and Centra franchises. The local pharmacy and the local solicitor sometimes do too — it’s worth asking.

To say yes

Email [host name] at [email] or ring [number]. We’ll agree a date, send you a logo spec, and that’s it. You don’t need to do anything else until the morning itself.

Tea & Tech is made by Linguist. The pack is free. The mornings are run by your neighbours.