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In order to best fulfill our purpose, the Cheverly Community Market will have no more than three sponsorship tables available per market, on a first come-first served application basis and subject to Board review and approval. All benefits provided to sponsors are provided at the discretion of the Cheverly Community Market Board, which will determine and have final sign-off on things such as logo size and placement.

Sponsors are expected to submit the sponsorship application at least two weeks prior to the first preferred Market date and must provide satisfactory proof that they qualify based on the following criteria:

• Locally owned or have a local affiliate (within 100 miles)

• Company purpose or values must align with the Market’s mission, preferably through support of one of the following, either through business/service or corporate social responsibility:

• Farming, farmers

• Local food/beverages, local food systems

• Health, nutrition, wellness

• Environment, sustainability

• Local economy

• Sponsorship application complete

• Sponsors who qualify for a table at the Market must abide by these rules when hosting a table at the Cheverly Community Market:

• Sponsors may have access to their space beginning at 6:45am on Saturdays. Set-up must be completed and vehicles removed by the start of the Market (8:00am), no exceptions. For safety reasons, early take-down and departure before closing time will not be allowed.

• Sponsors may not share stall space with others without the express written consent of the Market. However, a sponsor may assign persons to assist them. The sponsor signing this agreement takes full responsibility for his or her Market space.

• Sponsors are encouraged to use canopies, signs, and clean, attractive display techniques. Sponsors are required to maintain their space in a clean, safe, and sanitary manner, including protecting the pavement from oil or fuel drips from any part of their vehicle. This includes hauling away any trash or garbage that is generated in or around the booth and sweeping up any debris left on the ground.

• Sponsors may not offer goods or services for sale at the Market, but may collect contact information for Market visitors who voluntarily agree to receive follow-up information.

• Sponsors may hand out promotional materials to Market visitors who visit their table. If food items are to be handed out, the Market Board requests that it be purchased from vendors in the Market.

• Sponsors may not interfere with Market operations by aggressively soliciting signatures, sales or attention. Any activities undertaken at the Market may not block pedestrian traffic flow or access to assigned seller stall spaces.

• Sponsors must stay with their tables or displays. At no time may representatives walk through the Market handing out information.

• Sponsors must accept the spaces assigned to them by the Market Manager.

• Sponsors must prominently display name and bring its own tables and chairs.

• The Market retains the right to regulate the time, place and manner of activities relating to displays, signs, posters, placards and other expressions of the interests represented. The use of "fighting words", obscenities, grisly, or gruesome displays or highly inflammatory slogans likely to provoke a disturbance may be prohibited by the Market Manager.

• No political campaigning is permitted at any time within Cheverly Community Market.

• No smoking is allowed in the stall space or Market area.

• No animals are allowed in the Market.

• No benefits will be fulfilled until full payment is received from the sponsor.

The Board of Directors has authorized the Market Manager to enforce the above rules. Violation could mean immediate or seasonal expulsion from the Market. Appearance at the Market does not constitute an endorsement from the Cheverly Community Market of any group, cause, or opinion.

The Cheverly Community Market reserve(s) the right to terminate the Market or change its time and/or location and/or other policies as may be deemed necessary.