All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club/The Championships, Wimbledon

The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, which is responsible for staging the world's leading tennis tournament, is a private club founded in 1868 originally as The All England Croquet Club, and its first ground was situated off Worple Road, Wimbledon.

The Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon have developed from the garden party atmosphere of the first meeting in 1877, witnessed by a few hundred spectators, to a highly professional tournament attracting an attendance of over 500,000 people. Players from over 60 nations regularly compete in front of a crowd of millions worldwide, through the press, radio, internet and television.
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British Canoe Union (BCU)

Set up in 1936 to send a team to the Berlin Olympics, the BCU is the lead body for canoeing and kayaking in the UK. Since then the organisation has grown considerably, and the range of canoeing opportunity has increased tremendously.

Today the BCU has an individual membership of over 25,000, 469 affiliated clubs and 145 approved centres. There are an estimated 2 million people take to the water in a canoe each year (paddlesport Review). The vast majority do so under a watchful eye of one of the 13,000 BCU Qualified coaches or as part of an affiliated organisation.

Champions World is utilising a fan membership solution, which is being rolled out for this U.S. based promoter who represented several major European football clubs during the recent 2004 summer series. The FSI system is used to administer support and run the North American Membership schemes for both Manchester United (One United) and Celtic (World Huddle).

iSe-Hospitality AG , based in Zug/Switzerland, is the exclusive worldwide contractual partner of FIFA for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ Hospitality Programme. iSe-Hospitality is the only company worldwide that can officially sell hospitality packages including tickets and onsite hospitality services for every match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™. iSe-Hospitality has two operational units in Germany: iSe-Hospitality Production GmbH, a service provider for the onsite implementation, and iSe-Hospitality Sales GmbH in charge of all sales activities in Germany.

Rugby Football Union

Since 1871 the Rugby Football Union has been working hard for the game of rugby. It is the governing body for the Game in England and membership has grown to comprise of approximately 2000 clubs, 27 Constituent Bodies (Counties), the Armed Forces, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities and Students on the principle of one member, one vote. To administer every facet of the game, the RFU currently has over three hundred permanent staff working from its headquarters in Twickenham and in our regional Schools and Referees centre in Wolverhampton .

The FA

The FA was founded in 1863 as the governing body of the game in England. The FA is responsible for all regulatory aspects of the game of football in England. The FA acts as the link between the professional game and the amateur game beneath, what we call the "National Game." There are tremendous links between the two sides of the game, not least of these is that the volunteers and players in the National Game are substantially football fans, who are therefore the customers of the professional game.

A strong professional game is fundamental to creating interest in football at the grass roots. The FA has a strong relationship with The FA Premier League, the Football League, and The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA).

Wembley National Stadium Group

The new Wembley Stadium will be built and run by Wembley National Stadium Limited, a subsidiary of The Football Association. Wembley Stadium will welcome roughly 1 ½ million football and rugby fans each year, but it will also have important roles as the country’s leading venue for music concerts and will allow the UK to bid for the greatest events in world sport – from the World Athletics Championship and the Olympic Games to the FIFA World Cup.