Holloway & Finch
A London accountancy practice working almost entirely with self-employed creative people.
Across the seasonexample.com/holloway-finch
The institution
Partners
Sponsorship pays for the ceremony, the archive and the staff who screen every nomination. It buys nothing else, and this page says so in detail.
What sponsorship buys
- Partners
- 2
- Judging influence
- None
- Score access
- None
- Judge contact
- None
2 partnersNo influence over judgingNo access to scores
Editorial independence
PALMA takes sponsorship, and is not embarrassed about it: an independent panel, a screening team, a permanent archive and a ceremony all cost money, and the alternative, charging creators to be nominated, would corrupt the thing itself.
What matters is that the money and the judgement never touch. There is no route through which a sponsor can reach a judge, see a score, alter a shortlist or learn a result early. That is not a promise about behaviour; it is a fact about how the system is built. The judging tables carry no sponsor-readable relation, and there is no messaging path between a sponsor account and a judge account, because none was ever built.
Current
Who supports PALMA
Listed by tier. A category partner’s name appears on its category page; that is the entire extent of its involvement in that category.
Northbank Audio
An independent audio studio and post house.
Category, Rising Creator of the Yearexample.com/northbank-audio
Partnering with PALMA
PALMA works with a small number of partners a season, and turns down more than it accepts. If the brief includes influence over an outcome, the answer is no before the conversation starts.
Talk to us- 01
What a partner gets
Association with the season and the ceremony, presence on the relevant pages in PALMA’s own typography, a named seat at the ceremony, and the right to say truthfully that it supports the honours.
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What is disclosed
Where a partner has a commercial relationship with a nominee, that relationship is disclosed on the category page. PALMA discloses rather than excludes, because excluding would quietly punish the creator.
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What PALMA will not sell
Data. Not nominator addresses, not a mailing list, not aggregate behaviour about a creator’s audience. PALMA has no advertising business and does not intend to acquire one.
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How it ends
A partnership that attempts to acquire influence is terminated, the association is removed from the site, and PALMA will not pretend afterwards that it was a mutual decision.
The binding version of all this is in the competition rules and the terms. Partner use of the PALMA name is governed by use of the mark.