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Transparency

How sponsorship works.

Local businesses and providers help pay for what the community uses for free. Here is exactly what that does and does not buy.

Draft for review. These principles are settled; the final wording is still being reviewed.

Why we take sponsorship

Events cost money. So do the food, the sensory supports and the staffed quiet space, the activity materials, and the hours it takes to keep a directory current. Local sponsorship is how those stay free for the people who use them.

What sponsorship buys

Visibility, and the goodwill of being part of something local. Nothing more than that.

  • Acknowledgement at events and on event pages
  • A labelled Featured Community Partner listing in the directory
  • Named support on a sponsored resource
  • A mention in the community newsletter

What sponsorship never buys

Sponsorship is a commercial relationship. It is never a statement about clinical quality, and it never changes what we tell people who come here looking for help.

  • It does not buy a recommendation or endorsement
  • It does not change the order of directory results
  • It does not buy editorial control over a resource
  • It does not buy anyone's contact details or personal information

How we label it

Anything funded by a sponsor says so, on the thing itself — not in a footnote you have to go looking for. Sponsored resources carry a disclosure line at the top.