Apex Insurance Brokers is a Bristol-based independent broker, but a broker is really only as good as the communities it’s part of. This page sets out the community work we support and why.
We’ve kept it deliberately small and specific. We’d rather do one or two things properly than spread a community budget so thinly that nobody notices it. Both of the causes below have a personal connection to someone at Apex, which we think is the right test for community work that’s meant to mean something.
The flagship community partnership at Apex is our kit sponsorship of [TEAM NAME], a youth football team in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
[TEAM NAME] is a volunteer-run youth football club playing in the [LEAGUE NAME] in Barrow-in-Furness. The club runs [NUMBER OF AGE GROUPS] age groups and around [NUMBER OF KIDS] players in total. Training takes place at [TRAINING GROUND] and home fixtures are played at [HOME GROUND]. The team is run by [COACH NAME] and a group of volunteer coaches, parents and committee members who give their time week in, week out.
Apex sponsors the team’s match kit. Our logo appears on the shirts the players wear on matchday. We also contribute to associated kit and training costs by agreement with the club committee each season.
We don’t run the team, we don’t pick the side, and we don’t claim any role in their results. That’s the volunteers’ work, not ours.
Apex’s Director, Matt Bartlett, grew up in Barrow-in-Furness. The sponsorship started when a family connection mentioned the club was looking for a kit partner; it became a way for Matt to put something tangible back into the community he came from while running a business 350 miles away.
You can read the long-form story behind the sponsorship here: Why I sponsor a youth football team in Barrow-in-Furness.
“[PLACEHOLDER PARENT QUOTE — TO BE CAPTURED ON RECORD WITH WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM A PARENT OR COMMITTEE MEMBER.]” — [PARENT NAME, ROLE], 2026
“[PLACEHOLDER COACH OR CHAIRMAN QUOTE — TO BE CAPTURED ON RECORD.]” — [COACH/CHAIRMAN NAME, ROLE], 2026
The team posts match reports, training updates and club news on Facebook. Give them a follow and a like:
Follow [TEAM NAME] on Facebook →
[FACEBOOK PAGE PLUGIN EMBED — to be configured in WordPress with the page handle once confirmed. Reference: <iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/page.php?href=[TEAM-FB-URL]&tabs=timeline" ...>. Falls back gracefully where Facebook cookies are declined. The team’s own page is where matchday content lives; this page does not duplicate it.]
Apex does not republish photographs of identifiable children from the team on its own channels. The visuals used on this page are limited to:
See photo-permissions-and-safeguarding.md for the full Apex photo policy.
For Matt’s longer, personal account of how the sponsorship came about and what it means to him, see: Why I sponsor a youth football team in Barrow-in-Furness →
We get more sponsorship and donation requests than we can act on. The framework we apply is straightforward:
If you run a community organisation with a connection to Apex or to one of our people and you’d like to talk to us, please email info@apexinsurancebrokers.co.uk with “Community partnership” in the subject line.
Matt’s Cumbrian background is also why we publish information specifically for professional services firms in Cumbria, the Lake District, Barrow and the wider North-West. If you’re a Cumbria-based solicitor, accountant, surveyor, architect, IFA or consultant looking at a PI renewal, our Cumbria information page is a starting point.
Apex Insurance Brokers Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, FCA firm reference 724952. Registered in England and Wales, Companies House number 07014570. Trading address: QCS, 53 Queen Charlotte Street, Bristol BS1 4HQ. Telephone 0117 325 0027. Email info@apexinsurancebrokers.co.uk.
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Page describes a community sponsorship. Nothing here is a recommendation, offer or financial promotion in relation to any insurance product.
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