quaduplex
Firstly welcome.
I think you are going to find sponsorship tricky, merely from the age perspective. You say you have 10 years experience so I am guessing that you are at least 27 years old? Not that many airlines are sponsoring at all at the moment due to market forces, but when they do they tend to have an upper age limit somewhere in the region of 27!
There are other schemes where you pay the cost of training (read the numerous threads on these pages) which I am sure you would still qualify for, but I am guessing you were really talking about airline funded schemes?
Sorry to be the bearer of (possibly) bad news.
Regards and best of luck.
PP