Cracking idea. I did this myself during my PR degree, and there will be hundreds of students in the Salford/Manchester Uni's willing to work on a voluntary basis in order to gain some relevant work experience.
It's win-win. It costs the club nothing and they get a fresh pair of eyes from someone hungry to prove themselves in the industry, and the student gets some real work experience to place on their CV alongside their studies.

The Lowry receive at least a £1m a year from Salford Council to cover the shortfall in rents from the Lowry Shopping centre, so as I said we have you on our shirts why don't you sell our shirts, come on Salford Council if you are serious about Salford City reds use your own outlets to sell shirts etc.

as one would say =violetOnly In Salford

As I said its all red tape, no matter how much the Council fork out to subsidise the place they still only rent the space at The Lowry and don't have much of say in there..............sound weird

Just the way it is!

Local Gov, Private Enterprise, European Grants etc. etc. Thought you knew about all that kind of stuff mate.

Perhaps Salford's principal sponsor, a direct competitor to the Lowry Outlet Mall, is a bone of contention here too.

I've always personally thought that the Trafford centre is very lax in advertiseing what is after all a product that they are very much involved with.
Your not telling me that they couldnt randomly throw the fitures and what have you on the big screen in the Orient rather than the constantly overly loud brainless drivel they currently do.
The employees of the TC itself wear Red as a uniform so why not incorporate the fact that they sponser the Reds?, maybe throw in a 5% of voucher with season tickets, run on the spot promotions at certain games with vouchers to spend in the TC, the club should be allowed every week to send a few random players down to pass out flyers for the next home game or for the Dads send the flames down for the same reason.

The point being that if someone who know background in marketing can think of these things surely the club and an eneterprise as large as the TC should be able to trump them, I refer back to my earlier suggestion that theclub needs urgently to approach the local educational institutes to see if they can provide people who want some real world experience to assist in this kind of venture.

I do know all about it, but in most cities I have visited where European money is involved the good people get to use it for their own advantage, Salford is the only council that has to pay money back to NWDA if they make any cash or charge peppercorn rents to community groups in property renovated using European cash, who writes these contracts, Salford also has 3 councillors on the Board of the Lowry, it is supposed to be for the people of Salford not Cheshire.
I will try and chase up with a couple of councillors about this matter.
really does p155 me off sometimes when I see Liverpool getting so much money then handing the building back to the communities and then the community group making money by charging the council rent to use it.