Sponsorship Opportunities

Exhibition stand at BGS meeting

The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) is dedicated to advancing research and supporting continuing professional development (CPD) in the healthcare of older people. Learn more about the BGS.

We deliver specialised conferences that address the core competencies of geriatric medicine. Each meeting is designed to:

  • Showcase best practices in clinical care
  • Present cutting-edge research findings
  • Highlight innovative approaches to service delivery

Sponsors and exhibitors play a vital role in our events. We invite pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, healthcare employers, and related organisations to support our mission by partnering with us.

Learn more about the sponsorship opportunities for your organisation.
 

Updated July 2025

 

Why Sponsor BGS conferences?

  • Direct access to senior clinicians and multidisciplinary professionals in older people’s healthcare
  • Exposure at high‑impact hybrid events
  • Opportunities to host symposia and workshops
  • Continued visibility: on demand access  available for 6 months to all registered Healthcare professional attendees 

Sponsorship Packages (Hybrid Meetings)

BGS meetings are hybrid by default, with a virtual attendance option in addition to in-person attendance. Attendees will be able to choose how to attend based on their preferences, existing work, and personal commitments.

The core sponsorship opportunities exist at all meetings

  • Sponsored symposia packages - A 30 minute educational symposium and exhibition stand,
  • Sponsored exhibition stands
  • Spotlight on sessions - Shorter 15 minute educational presentation sessions

Symposium packages include a 30 minute symposium with delegate places for speakers, company personnel and invited healthcare professionals. These are limited in availability so early enquiry is encouraged.

Stands are 3x2m spaces with 2 company personnel exhibition passes.

Recordings of the presentations, including sponsored symposia, if permitted, will be accessible post-event to all attendees for 6 months.

#Livestreaming and post-event resources

With pressures on study leave and study budgets, online access to continuing professional development (CPD) and BGS services becomes more and more important. Via introducing family-friendly events, livestreaming content and publishing post-event resources the challenges facing HCPs can be addressed. Sponsors can support the live streaming of content, and the provision of the recordings via the BGS website with our Educational support options.

Additional items for Supporters

The BGS welcomes opportunities to discuss, with potential partners, ways in which we might collaborate on opportunities beyond the conference. Options include supporting making the content available online, sponsorship of Wi-Fi or other services needed at the meeting.

The British Geriatrics Society is a multidisciplinary membership organisation of over 5,600(and growing) healthcare professionals who specialise in the healthcare of older people in a variety of hospital and community settings.

Our event delegates include:

  • Consultants and Professors of Geriatric Medicine (c.50%)
  • Specialty Doctors and GPs
  • Resident Doctors, especially those in Geriatric Medicine and related specialties
  • Nurse Consultants, Nurse Specialists and Advanced Nurse Practitioners
  • Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Allied Health Professionals

Smaller numbers 

  • Researchers into ageing and age-related conditions
  • Internal Medicine Trainees and Foundation Year Doctors
  • Medical Students

How to confirm your sponsorship

  1. Review available packages
  2. Determine which event you wish to support
  3. Contact our Sponsorship Team to confirm availability - g.collingridge@bgs.org.uk or 0207 608 1369
  4. Sign booking agreement
  5. Invoice issued
  6. Acknowledgement of sponsorship updated on website, programme and marketing material
  7. Access sponsor resources & onboarding pack - 1 month prior to the event

Annual review

BGS sponsorship rates are benchmarked regularly and annually reviewed by our Finance Committee, and Trustee Board. They are subject to annual increases 

2025/6 Hybrid Sponsorship Packages

Sponsorship Packages 

 BGS meetings are hybrid by default, with a virtual attendance option in addition to in-person attendance. Attendees will be able to choose how to attend based on their preferences, existing work, and personal commitments. 

For those attending in-person, we aim to continue the same high-quality educational content in addition to the networking and interactions missed during the virtual conferences.  For both in-person and virtual delegates there will be the ability to network and visit exhibitors before, during, and after each meeting.

Recordings of the presentations, including sponsored symposia, if permitted, will be accessible post-event to all attendees for 6 months.

 

Gold Partner Package 1 only 

£20,000 plus VAT

  • Satellite symposium - 30 minutes including time for Q&A
    • Fully managed AV, hosted on BGS website for on demand viewing
    • Sponsors will need to provide their own moderators
  • Up to 6x4m exhibition stand and virtual booth
  • Delegate attendance capture form – capture attendee’s details via your own form
  • Key partner package – All sessions from event to include your logo and acknowledgement as key sponsor.
  • Invite up to 50 delegate places. Up to 20 corporate attendees
  • Virtual exhibition page
  • Delegate list

Silver Partner Package

£16,000 plus VAT

  • Satellite symposium - 30 minutes for including time for Q&A
    • Fully managed AV, hosted on BGS website for on demand viewing
    • Sponsors will need to provide their own moderators
  • 20 delegate places. Up to 20 corporate attendees
  • 4x3m physical and virtual exhibition page
  • Delegate list

Bronze Partner Package

£14,000 plus VAT

  • Satellite symposium - 30 minutes including time for Q&A
    • Fully managed AV, hosted on BGS website for on demand viewing
    • Sponsors will need to provide their own moderators
  • Up to 20 corporate attendees
  • 3x2m physical and virtual exhibition page
  • Delegate list

(£1,500 plus VAT per day)

  • Two complimentary registrations for the conference to include access to all sessions, lunches/coffees/tea for all and 5 virtual attendees
  • All conference materials
  • Central location at conference and a virtual exhibition page
  • Ideal for 3m x 2m pop-up stand or similar
  • Access to 13 amp electricity supply is included, along with table and chairs

(£6,000 plus VAT)

  • A 15 minute video session* (AV fully supported by BGS – our AV team will record the content in advance in high quality and schedule to play at allocated time slot or support the live presentation onsite)
  • Accessible by attendees at the time in the programme and on-demand for 6 months
    • *“Spotlight on” sessions require review by BGS Meetings Committee and need to be informative and educational in content.

2025/6 Hybrid Special Interest Group Meeting Packages


The exhibition and poster presentations are a key part of our conferences. Stands will be organised in layouts designed to maximise footfall to stands. Catering points, posters, and seating will be included across the exhibition space to better draw attendees to interact with you.

(£6,000 plus VAT)

  • Satellite symposium - 30 minutes including time for Q&A
    • Fully managed AV, hosted on BGS website for on demand viewing
    • Sponsors will need to provide their own moderators
  • Delegate capture form – capture attendee’s details via your own form
  • Key partner package – All sessions from event to include your logo and acknowledgement as key sponsor.
  • Invite up to 10 onsite/ 50 virtual delegate places. Up to 10 onsite/ 20 virtual corporate attendees
  • 3x2m Physical and virtual exhibition page
  • Delegate list
  • Statistic reports on overall attendance, and viewing figures 

(£1,000 plus VAT)

  • Logo and acknowledgement on preliminary and final programme and event webpage
  • Two complimentary registrations for the conference to include access to all sessions, lunches/coffees/tea for all and 5 virtual attendees
  • All conference materials
  • Central location at conference and a virtual exhibition booth
  • Ideal for 3m x 2m pop-up stand or similar
  • Access to 13 amp electricity supply is included, along with table and chairs

(£2,500 plus VAT)

  • A 15 minute video session* (AV fully supported by BGS – our AV team will record the content in advance in high quality and schedule to play at allocated time slot or support the live presentation onsite)
  • Accessible by attendees at the time in the programme and on-demand for 12 months
    • *“Spotlight on” sessions require review by BGS Meetings Committee and need to be informative and educational in content.

2025/6 Hybrid Local Meetings packages

 

Our nation and England region meetings are an important way for the BGS to assist members’ professional development. With time pressure on study leave and the expense of travel and accommodation, events closer to members’ places of home and work are valuable resources. These local meetings also provide an important way to forge connections, which can further improve joined-up healthcare for older people and the strengthening of a professional multi-disciplinary community committed to improving older people’s wellbeing and healthcare.

(£2,500 plus VAT)

  • Satellite symposium - 30 minutes including time for Q&A
    • Fully managed AV, hosted on BGS website for on demand viewing
    • Sponsors will need to provide their own moderators
  • Delegate capture form – capture attendee’s details via your own form
  • Key partner package – All sessions from event to include your logo and acknowledgement as key sponsor.
  • Invite up to 10 onsite/ 50 virtual delegate places. Up to 10 onsite/ 20 virtual corporate attendees
  • 3x2m Physical and virtual exhibition page
  • Delegate list
  • Statistic reports on overall attendance, and viewing figures 

(£1,250 plus VAT)

  • A 15 minute video session* (AV fully supported by BGS – our AV team will record the content in advance in high quality and schedule to play at allocated time slot or support the live presentation onsite)
  • Accessible by attendees at the time in the programme and on-demand for 12 months
    • *“Spotlight on” sessions require review by BGS Meetings Committee and need to be informative and educational in content.

(£750 plus VAT)

  • Two complimentary registrations for the conference to include access to all sessions, lunches/coffees/tea for all and 5 virtual attendees
  • All conference materials
  • Central location at conference and a virtual exhibition booth
  • Ideal for 3m x 2m pop-up stand or similar
  • Access to 13 amp electricity supply is included, along with table and chairs

(£ varies)

  • With this package the sponsor will provide an unrestricted grant
  • An acknowledgement to the sponsor will be given in the m of the event and on the programme

Delegate composition

BGS Autumn Meeting 2018 delegate composition

BGS Autumn Meeting 2018 delegate composition

Who attends our events?

The British Geriatrics Society is a multidisciplinary membership organisation of over 5,400 healthcare professionals who specialise in the healthcare of older people in a variety of hospital and community settings.

Our event delegates include:

  • Consultants and Professors of Geriatric Medicine
  • Specialty Doctors
  • Specialist Registrars (StRs) in Geriatric Medicine and related specialties
  • Nurse Consultants, Nurse Specialists and Advanced Nurse Practitioners
  • GPs and GP Trainees
  • Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Allied Health Professionals
  • Researchers into ageing and age-related conditions
  • Internal Medicine Trainees and Foundation Year Doctors
  • Medical Students

For more information about any of these packages or other ways of working with the BGS, contact Geraint Collingridge, Director of Learning and Professional Development, via g.collingridge@bgs.org.uk or telephone: 020 7608 8573.

Highlights from our Autumn Meeting

Scam warning

INTERNATIONAL “DIRECTORY” ALERT –  DO NOT GET CAUGHT OUT!

If you exhibit in the UK or overseas, whether your company is small or large, you may hear from INTERNATIONAL FAIRS DIRECTORY (IFD), INTER-FAIRS, EXPO-GUIDE, or FAIRGUIDE or CONSTRUCT DATA.

This bogus directory and listing scam has been going on for over 25 years, and people are still getting caught by it.

You will receive an official-looking form (by email or by post). This may be preceded by a phone call asking to check your details for an exhibition listing.

The form will mention your participation in a trade show, and it will appear to have a connection with the organisers of that show. It’s marked “Urgent”, and gives a deadline for return of your company information for an advert in something which appears to be a free online exhibitor listing service or exhibition directory.

The catalogue, directory and online listings referred to do not exist.

Please warn anyone in your office who opens the post or any emails (including “info@” emails) at your company about this scam . Do not complete and return any of these forms.

If you do, you are signing up to a three-year advertising contract in an “International Fairs Directory” or web listing. This will cost hundreds of Euros per year. Signing may also give IFD permission to access images on your website and download them to create “ads” for you. IFD is run by MULPOR Company S.A, of Costa Rica (or any other address they may be using). The detail of what you’re signing up for is in the very small print at the bottom of the form, or in the blurb on the reverse.

If you sign and return these forms, even if you realise your mistake and try to cancel the order, you will receive an invoice. Non-payment of this (and the other invoices which will follow) will result in persistent chasing by “debt collectors”. You should not pay, as you will not be getting the service to which they refer. Ignore any letters and invoices you may receive, and don’t get involved in any conversations on the phone.

Legal proceedings have been brought against Inter-Fairs Directory, Expo-Guide, Fairguide, Mulpor and Construct Data all over the world. Many actions have been successful… but this just results in the company springing up again under a new name and in a new jurisdiction. The latest of these is IFD/Mulpor, of Costa Rica.

Be careful to check everything thoroughly before you sign any forms! Make sure that only a Director or nominated signatory in your company can sign for and sign off any directory entries. Thousands of people and companies have been caught out, and have experienced the hassle of dealing with Expo-Guide and Fairguide/Construct Data (and now IFD).

Make absolutely certain that you are completing only legitimate forms from the organisers of any exhibition in which you are participating.

If you do get caught out, you should report this to the Government’s Anti-Fraud office, Action Fraud, which is run by the City of London Police – follow this link

https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/a-z-of-fraud/business-directory-fraud

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