Work with TradeKindacross Sussex
TradeKind connects Sussex homeowners with local tradespeople and supports trade businesses with public profiles, local requests, opportunities and reputation tools. We work with organisations that can bring something genuinely useful to the people and communities we serve.
Whether you are a charity, builders' merchant, supplier, training provider, industry organisation or property business, we are open to practical partnerships that create value on both sides.
- Sussex-first
- Founder-led
- Built for homeowners & trades
- East Sussex
- West Sussex
- Brighton & Hove
Featured In & Partners
Our approach
Useful partnerships. Not logo swaps.
We are not looking to collect logos. The strongest TradeKind partnerships give Sussex tradespeople, homeowners or property organisations something genuinely useful while helping our partners reach a relevant local audience, support their communities or achieve a practical objective.
That might mean making support services easier to find, promoting training opportunities, connecting a worthwhile campaign with local trades, supporting an event, creating useful content or introducing an appropriate service.
A good partnership should make TradeKind more useful to the people using it — not simply add another advert to the platform.
Who TradeKind connects
A partnership can reach more than one part of the Sussex property community
TradeKind is a Sussex-first platform connecting homeowners with local tradespeople across East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. Our wider platform also includes routes for property organisations and people looking for work in the trades.
Sussex tradespeople
Local trade businesses working across home improvement, repair, maintenance and property services.
Homeowners
People looking for suitable local tradespeople, browsing trade profiles or posting work they need doing.
Property professionals
Landlords, letting and estate agents, property managers, investors, developers and commercial property users.
People entering the trades
People exploring trade careers, work opportunities, training and practical routes into the industry.
Ways to work together
Start with the problem we can solve together
We do not expect every partnership to look the same. The best starting point is the outcome you want to create and whether TradeKind can help make it useful, relevant and local.
Awareness & support campaigns
Help useful services, support and industry campaigns reach relevant Sussex tradespeople and property audiences.
Merchant & trade-counter campaigns
Explore local materials, promotions, awareness activity or events in places tradespeople already visit.
Events & community initiatives
Work together on useful local events, workshops, fundraising, volunteering or trade-community activity.
Training, skills & careers
Make relevant training, recruitment opportunities and routes into the trades easier to discover in Sussex.
Useful trade services & benefits
Introduce relevant services or benefits that genuinely help local tradespeople run, protect or develop their businesses.
Local content & education
Co-create practical guides, resources and information that help Sussex tradespeople, homeowners or property organisations.
Community & charitable projects
Connect worthwhile initiatives with tradespeople who may be able to volunteer skills, contribute or help spread awareness.
Technology & industry collaboration
Explore appropriate integrations or new ways to connect local property needs with suitable services without adding unnecessary complexity.
What TradeKind brings
A real Sussex platform, not an advertising page
A partner can work with TradeKind around an existing local marketplace: public trade profiles, homeowner requests, property audiences, reputation tools, trade networks and work opportunities. We keep the proposition practical and avoid promising reach or results that we cannot prove.
A genuinely local focus
TradeKind is growing Sussex-first so local relevance and useful relationships come before national scale.
Trade business participation
Trades can claim or create profiles, manage how their business is represented and interact with requests and opportunities.
Public trade profiles
Profiles can show services, areas covered, photos, FAQs, websites, reviews, team members and trade relationships.
Several routes to real work
TradeKind supports direct business requests, jobs posted on TradeKind and suitable recent opportunities matched by trade and area.
Reputation & trust signals
TradeKind supports genuine reviews and clear public business information while keeping private contact details off public profiles.
Team & Trade Network
Businesses can show people within their team and independent trades they work with or recommend, with clear attribution.
Work & recruitment routes
The platform includes ways for Sussex businesses to advertise trade vacancies and for people to explore work in the trades.
Built to be discoverable
Public pages use clear metadata, structured information and internal links so useful Sussex information can be understood by people, search engines and emerging AI search experiences.
Why Sussex
A focused route into the Sussex trade community
TradeKind is deliberately growing locally first. Sussex includes major centres such as Brighton & Hove, Worthing, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Eastbourne and Hastings, alongside smaller towns and communities with their own local trade networks.
That focus gives us the opportunity to build deeper relationships between local businesses, tradespeople, homeowners and organisations instead of treating Sussex as another filter in a national directory.
East Sussex
Local trades, homeowners and property activity across East Sussex communities.
West Sussex
A growing network of trade businesses and property audiences across West Sussex.
Brighton & Hove
A major Sussex property and trade market with its own strong local business community.
Charities & community organisations
Some of the most valuable partnerships do not involve selling anything
Where an organisation provides genuinely useful support to people working in construction, property or Sussex communities, we are happy to explore ways TradeKind can help make that support easier to discover.
If your organisation could genuinely help Sussex tradespeople or homeowners, we would like to hear from you.
- Awareness and official resources
- Local campaigns and useful communications
- Volunteering and practical projects
- Events and community activity
- Fundraising initiatives
- Relevant skills or support opportunities
Our partnership principles
Partnerships should earn trust, not spend it
TradeKind serves homeowners and trade businesses, so partner activity has to protect the usefulness and credibility of the platform as it grows.
Useful first
We prioritise partnerships that provide a genuine benefit to the people TradeKind serves.
Transparent
Where a commercial, sponsorship or referral relationship exists, it should be clear rather than disguised as an independent recommendation.
Privacy protected
TradeKind does not sell personal information. A partnership does not give an organisation access to private homeowner or tradesperson data.
No bought endorsement
A commercial relationship cannot buy a false recommendation, ranking or trust claim on TradeKind.
For more detail on how TradeKind handles personal information, see our Privacy Policy.
What could we build together?
Start small, prove value, then grow what works
These are examples of the kinds of collaboration TradeKind can explore, not claims about campaigns already completed. We prefer practical pilots with a clear purpose over large, vague partnership announcements.
A Sussex trade wellbeing campaign
Make relevant support easier for people working in the trades to discover.
A builders' merchant activation
Connect useful online awareness with places tradespeople visit during the working week.
A skills campaign
Help more Sussex residents discover training, vacancies and routes into trade careers.
A community project
Bring appropriate local trade skills and awareness around a worthwhile Sussex initiative.
A useful trade benefit
Make a genuinely relevant service easier for local trade businesses to access or understand.
Founder-led
Built in Sussex, from within the trades
TradeKind was founded by Neal Drummond in Sussex to create a more useful connection between homeowners and local trade businesses. Neal also works within the decorating trade, so the platform is being developed with first-hand understanding of how local tradespeople actually work.
That practical background shapes our approach to partnerships too: useful, clear and grounded in something that can genuinely help the local trade and property community.
Partnership FAQs
A few things potential partners often need to know
Who can partner with TradeKind?
We welcome relevant enquiries from charities, trade organisations, builders' merchants, suppliers and manufacturers, training providers, property organisations, community organisations and service businesses where there is a genuine fit with Sussex tradespeople, homeowners or property audiences.
Do TradeKind partnerships have to be paid?
No. We are open to commercial, community and in-kind collaboration. The right structure depends on what each organisation is contributing and the value the activity creates. We do not promise free promotion simply because an organisation asks to partner.
Can charities and community organisations work with TradeKind?
Yes. Where a charity or community organisation provides relevant support, opportunities or practical value, we can explore awareness, resources, campaigns, volunteering, events or other appropriate collaboration.
Can a partner access TradeKind user data?
A partnership does not give an organisation access to private homeowner or tradesperson information. TradeKind does not sell personal information, and any data handling must remain consistent with our Privacy Policy and the purpose for which information was collected.
Does TradeKind accept sponsorship or referral partnerships?
Potentially, where the product or service is relevant and the relationship can be presented transparently. Payment cannot buy a false endorsement, a misleading trust claim or preferential organic ranking of trade businesses.
Where does TradeKind operate?
TradeKind is growing Sussex-first, covering East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. Our priority is building a useful local network before expanding more widely.
Have an idea for working together?
You do not need a finished proposal. Tell us what your organisation is trying to achieve and we will see whether there is a useful fit for TradeKind and the Sussex community we serve.
hello@tradekind.co.uk