Supporting the community
Darklands supports community-organised events and titleholder elections by donating prizes or taking adverts in event program guides. Support is exclusively available to elections that are organised by and for the community. Privately owned, commercially operated, or for-profit titleholder elections are not eligible for sponsorship. Eligible titleholder elections are sponsored with prizes for the winner and first and second runners up.
On several occasions we have also donated a small amount for the titleholder’s travel fund and/or offered tokens for the upcoming Darklands.
The events we’ve supported were sometimes given free advertising in the Darklands program magazine. In some cases, mutual support agreements have been made to exchange ads and cooperate in other promotions for the support of their event and Darklands.
In addition to events and elections, Darkands and We Are One also support clubs and organizations by offering them free booth space at our vendor market. This way, fetish clubs can promote themselves and even raise money to cover their operational costs. For example, MSC Belgium organizes a second-hand market at Darklands which has become the club’s most important source of funding.
In 2016, the We Are One foundation was established. Over the Darklands weekend, WR1 collects donations from visitors which is then split evenly between the new titleholders elected during the event and a charity organization. Over the past years, donations of € 7.500 (2022), €13.026 (2023), €6.589 (2024) and €11.000 in 2025 we’re collected and shared amongst all charities and the titleholder’s travel fund so they can take part in international elections and support their fetish community during their title year.
