NI Sports Forum has announced that it has signed partnership agreements with Bluefin Sport, a specialist sports insurance provider and Traveleads, the UK’s largest supplier of travel management services to the UK sporting scene. Northern Ireland Sports Forum Chairman Roy Millar was pleased to announce these agreements.
“Northern Ireland Sports Forum exists to provide better support and services for our members. Through these agreements reached with Bluefin Sport and Traveleads we are fully confident both are well placed to provide a high quality service to the sporting sector. Bluefin Sport have recently established themselves in Belfast and can provide that personal sports specific service to our members. Traveleads have vast experience in travel management which can ease the complexities in sports travel by arranging travel for squads of all sizes and also equipment needs and more”.
Bluefin Sport is an independent and award winning specialist division at Bluefin Insurance Services offering solutions and risk management advice to the world of sport. With a base in Belfast they are ideally placed to deliver local expertise across Northern Ireland and provide all the services required for professional and amateur sports clubs, leagues, associations and governing bodies. With additional offices located in Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New Malden and London, they service clients across the length and breadth of the UK, including some of the best known names in sport.
Alyn Spratt, Bluefin Sports’ Head of Sport for Northern Ireland, commented:
“We are incredibly excited about this new partnership and are confident that we can provide valuable support and quality service to their members. With our office location in Belfast it means that we are well positioned to work closely with the NISF members to develop a long term relationship”.
Traveleads is an independent travel management company with offices in Leeds and Edinburgh, and offering specialist divisions in sports and group travel, corporate, media, and oil and gas travel, as well as luxury leisure holidays. As a specialist sports TMC, Traveleads have access to a large number of money-saving deals offering greater flexibility on name changes and discounts for carriage of sports kit and equipment, including exclusive deals with some budget airlines. Traveleads work with a large number of NGB’s and individual athletes across a broad range of sports in the UK, and have an outstanding reputation for providing a highly dependable service, which is available 7 days a week with full 24-hours emergency cover included.
Eric Edwards, Director of Groups and Sports at Traveleads said ‘We are very much looking forward to a long partnership with the Northern Ireland Sports Forum, and to assisting the members in order to reduce their travel costs and their workload’.
You can contact Alyn at Bluefin Sport on 02890 726119/ email Alyn.Spratt@bluefingroup.co.uk or visit www.bluefinsport.co.uk
To contact Eric at Traveleads call 07720 967999/ email eedwards@traveleads.net or visit www.traveleads.co.uk
