Westcombe Park RFC

We hope that Westcombe Park RFC will be of interest due to the location of the venue and the sheer size of the membership base across 3 very popular sports in Kent, rugby, cricket and tennis, guaranteeing maximum local exposure all year round to an up-market demographic profile with a high disposable income. 

The club's 1st XV play in the dizzy heights of National Division Two (South), which is semi-professional and immensely competitive. 

In return for local businesses devising an incentive for their entire playing, youth (parents), social, Vice President members plus commercial partners, we are delighted to offer these businesses exposure of the club's ‘Community Business Network’ package.  

The story of Westcombe Park RFC

Named after Combe, the founders home town, Westcombe Park. The club has grown through a number of locations in Kent.  It settled in Harrow Field Farm, Lee for a while, using a farm shed as a changing room.  By 1925, Combe (as it was then known) was running six sides and playing in the Kent Cup.

In 1930, the club leased it's own fields near Shooter's Hill, where club members converted stables into club facilities.  These facilities sufficed for a while before the land was required for housing.  The search for new premises began and a lease was agreed with Orpington Council.

Relocation to the present site at Goddington Dene, Orpington took place in 1990 when the club became the major section within the Orpington Sports Club. In 1994, Westcombe Park took over the running and responsibility for the sports club and offered playing facilities, issuing contractual terms, to other sports (cricket, football, tennis and table tennis) as Associated Clubs under the control of Westcombe Park and Orpington Sports Club; a rugby club managed by rugby folk! The club became a limited company, registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 in 1995.
The Club now boasts 5 pitches, a grandstand, a fully equipped gymnasium, 3 football pitches, 2 cricket squares and 6 tennis courts - a testament to the 'founding fathers'.

Community Club Partnership Package
  • Large pitch side, pitch facing perimeter advertising billboard strategically positioned on the 1st XV pitch.
  • Your advertising hoarding will be in situ 24/7 throughout the entire rugby season. Thus it will be visible even when matches are not being played.
  • You are welcome to choose your board position, which can be located anywhere pitch-side (behind the posts, on the 22m line, halfway line etc.) subject to availability
  • Private mailings to our membership including the Community Business Network partners.
  • You are welcome to send us a weekly offer (incentives, promotions, reader offers, competitions etc.). We’ll duly circulate this mail-shot to the entire membership network exclusively on your behalf
  • Quarterly business networking events, including refreshments, at the rugby club and other prestigious local venues
  • Direct access, four times a year, to our entire club/commercial membership database via an electronic eHack news e-magazine. This product is strategically supported as an easy-to-navigate online publication, which provides our club/commercial membership with two excellent viewing options ensuring maximum interest. You will be allocated space within this online magazine for advertising, editorial and advertorial.
  • Displaying promotional material and having a trade stand on selected match-days, running competitions and data capture campaigns
  • Your logo, company profile and web-link will be featured on the club’s official websites ensuring maximum traffic generation and search optimisation
  • Please consult the club’s website by clicking on www.westcombeparkrugby.co.uk
  • Access to our mini, junior and youth members (over 490 children are registered to play for the club) - over 980 parents many of whom are local Company Directors and Business Owners with a high disposable income   
  • Your company literature, brochures, fliers, business-cards and other points-of-sale can be strategically displayed within the clubhouse, which is being used daily. People will be able to pick up your marketing and promotional material, take it away with them and make contact at a later date
  • Use of the ‘Combe’ crest and action-shot images in any of your marketing and promotional material including your website (subject to written artwork creative sign-off from the club)
  • Two season tickets for the 2011/12 season
  • One full membership pack
  • Player/coaches endorsements and appearances for your corporate events such as Open Days and exhibitions (subject to availability)
  • Opportunities to purchase Autumn Internationals and RBS 6-Nations Internationals (subject to availability)  
Why choose Westcombe Park RFC

Not only will you be supporting your local professional sports club, also thousands of people will see your branding each month within the community as a result of the following:

  • The sports ground facility provides one of the most spectacular venues for sport anywhere in the county
  • Rugby, cricket and tennis are the 3 main sports played at the ground thus, as a much-valued club partner, you benefit from coverage all year round - rugby during the winter plus cricket and tennis during the summer
  • Over 1,500 members – playing, youth (parents), social and Vice President members including commercial partners
  • The clubhouse is extensively used by thousands of people every month
  • Over 30 matches per season incorporating 1st and 2nd XV fixtures plus Kent County games, tournaments, charity matches
  • 5 senior rugby teams: 1st XV enjoying impressive weekly crowd attendances
  • 12 mini and junior teams: between 400 – 750 children with their respective parents attend every Sunday morning throughout the rugby season
  • Regular press coverage in the Orpington Today and Bromley Times
  • Local radio exposure - Radio Kent

Westcombe Park are pleased to announce the appointed of Abbotts-Advertising as our new official media partner. They will initially be responsible for selling additional pitch advertising for the 1st XV area, linked into a business package for the launching of the Westcombe Park
Community Business Network. Their team have extensive experience working with clubs from the Premiership down to grassroots rugby clubs, and I am sure our marketing & commercial team can learn from their professionalism whilst raising the profile of Combe within the local area.

Denes Nemestothy
Marketing Chairman, Westcombe Park