Corporate Partnerships Beyond Sponsorship

A partnership prospectus for organisations that want more than a logo on a banner

Most companies approach a technical college with one question: what does it cost to sponsor a student? It is a good question. It is also the smallest of the questions available.

Delight Technical College trains people in the disciplines your organisation is probably short of garment production, fashion design, film and video production, photography, graphic design, digital journalism, ICT and artificial intelligence. A partnership with us can be a recruitment channel, a CSR programme, a product testing ground, a supply relationship and a brand platform at the same time.

This is what is available beyond the cheque.

1. Equipment donation and named facilities

Training quality is capped by equipment. A student who learns on an industrial machine is employable on day one; a student who learns on a domestic machine needs retraining. The same is true of cameras, lighting rigs, editing workstations and design software.

Organisations upgrading their own equipment can place the outgoing generation here, where it will be used daily by twenty to thirty students per term rather than sitting in a store.

What we can put to work immediately– industrial and domestic sewing machines, overlockers, cutting tables, mannequins and dress forms, steam irons, DSLR and mirrorless bodies, lenses, tripods and gimbals, studio lighting, audio recorders and microphones, editing workstations and monitors, laptops and desktops, projectors, and software licences.

Naming– Facility-scale donations carry naming rights for an agreed term like the [Your Company] Production Studio, the [Your Company] Garment Workshop, the [Your Company] AI Lab. The name sits on the door, in the prospectus, on the website and in every photograph taken in that room for the duration.

Reporting- You receive a placement record confirming what was donated, where it sits, and how many students used it each term. If your accounting or CSR reporting requires a valuation and receipt, we issue both.

2. CSR-funded cohorts

Instead of sponsoring individuals, fund a defined group and own the whole story.

A cohort is a named group of students, recruited against criteria you help set, trained together, and tracked as a unit. Example structures:

• Ten students, one year, Media and AI, full-time– 1,110,000 KES. Recruited from a county or community your organisation is committed to.
• Ten students, one year, Fashion and Design, full-time– 1,320,000 KES.
• Twenty students, one year, weekend mode– 1,560,000 KES. Suits organisations wanting reach and a lower per-student cost, and students who are already working.
• Fifteen students, six months, artisan level– Costed on request. Fastest route from intake to employable skill.

Add the one-time admission cost of 8,500 KES per student if you want the students to carry nothing at all. Most cohort partners do.

Cohorts can be defined by geography, by gender, by school-leaver status, by refugee or host-community status, or by any criterion that maps to your CSR commitments. We handle recruitment, vetting, training and reporting. You get a named programme with a beginning, an end and measurable outcomes.

3. Internship-for-sponsorship exchange

This is the structure we recommend to any organisation that hires.

You sponsor a student. The student completes their industrial attachment with you (two months at Level 3, two and a half at Level 4, three months at Levels 5 and 6). You get a trained, supervised, pre-vetted attaché at no additional cost, and first refusal when they graduate.

The economics are straightforward. A year of full-time Media and AI sponsorship costs 111,000 KES. Recruiting, onboarding and losing one bad junior hire costs considerably more. This is a hiring pipeline with a twelve-month look-ahead and a social return attached.

Partners who have run this structure typically sponsor two to five students per year on rotation, so that every intake produces attachés and every graduation produces candidates.

4. Live briefs and industry projects

Set our students a real problem. A brand refresh. A product photography catalogue. A campaign video. A capsule collection. A data-labelling or analysis task.

You get usable output and an unfiltered look at how twenty potential hires actually think. Students get a portfolio piece with a real client name on it. We fold the brief into assessed coursework so it carries academic weight rather than competing with it.

Live briefs cost you nothing but a scoping conversation and a review session. They are the cheapest possible way to start a relationship with the college, and the most common route into a larger partnership.

5. Production and supply relationships

Our School of Tailoring, Fashion and Design has capacity. Staff uniforms, branded aprons, event garments, corporate gifting, small-run production, these can be produced here, by supervised students, under a commercial agreement.

The order becomes a training exercise with a genuine deadline and a genuine quality standard. Your money goes into the institution rather than out of the country. Costing is done per job.

6. Sponsoring events and platforms

Delight runs a full calendar of public-facing events: graduation runways, the Global Fusion Fashion Show, exhibitions, film screenings, expos, hackathons and start-up labs. These carry audiences of students, parents, industry guests and media.

Event sponsorship packages cover naming, stage branding, programme placement, speaking slots, judging seats and exhibition space. Available per-event or across a full year. Packages and rates on request.

What every corporate partner receives

• A written partnership agreement setting out contribution, deliverables, recognition and reporting
• Logo placement on the website, in the prospectus and on campus signage appropriate to the tier
• An annual impact report with student numbers, completion rates and outcomes
• Invitations to graduation and all major college events, with guest allocations
• Named access to graduating students for attachment and recruitment
• Photography and written case-study material you may use in your own reporting, subject to student consent

On tax treatment

Delight Technical College is registered with and accredited by TVETA under registration number TVETA/PRIVATE/TVC/0080/2022, and our programmes are examined by TVET CDACC and NITA. The tax treatment of a corporate contribution depends on how it is structured (training expenditure, CSR, an in-kind asset transfer or a commercial sponsorship are all treated differently under Kenyan tax law).

We will issue full documentation for whichever structure you choose. Please take your own advice on deductibility; we do not offer tax opinions, but we will support your finance team with whatever paperwork they need.

Starting the conversation

There is no minimum. The most productive partnerships we have started with a single live brief and grew from there.

Email [email protected] with the subject “Corporate Partnership”, or call +254 722 533 771. Tell us roughly what you have (money, equipment, expertise, work, or platform) and what you want out of it. We will come back with two or three concrete structures rather than a generic deck.

Your industry is short of skilled people. We are three floors of them, being trained right now. Let us make that useful to both of us.

Delight Technical College, A TVETA-accredited institution (TVETA/PRIVATE/TVC/0080/2022)

Muindi Mbingu Street, opposite Jevanjee Gardens, Nairobi CBD | P.O. Box 12988-00100 GPO Nairobi

[email protected] | +254 722 533 771 / +254 724 566 088 | www.delight.ac.ke

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