Partnerships & sponsorships
Partner With Kelowna: Grow Your Brand in One of Canada’s Fastest‑Growing Cities
Kelowna is a city on the rise—innovative, entrepreneurial, and rapidly expanding. Home to over 165,000 residents, with strong population growth across vibrant urban centres, established suburban neighbourhoods and expanding planned communities, Kelowna offers brands a rare opportunity: meaningful visibility in a diverse, engaged, and fast‑moving market.
With several years of double-digit population growth behind us, Kelowna has out-paced the rest of British Columbia now represents nearly 3 per cent of the province’s total population. With consistent growth among young urban adventurers, families, and mature professionals and retirees, brands benefit from exposure to a well‑balanced, expanding audience. Kelowna also boasts strong mobility from other parts of the country, for both new resident settlement and tourism, which creates a unique environment for making meaningful connections as people come here to make life-long memories and lay down roots in our community.
Learn more about our City’s demographics here.
What we have to offer
Kelowna’s residents value companies that contribute positively to the community. We look for sponsors that want to go beyond simple brand recognition. We look for partners who want to enhance our public spaces, events and amenities and who are willing to dedicate time and resources to doing something meaningful, memorable and sometimes a little quirky and unique!
Becoming a corporate sponsor with the City of Kelowna means more than logo visibility—it’s your chance to integrate yourself into your audience’s day-to-day experiences, enhance your profile within the region and connect with audiences who are active, creative and motivated to make their community better through the industries they work in and the hobbies they pursue.
Contact us to learn more about who you could be reaching by partnering with us.
Ask us about opportunities to partner with us on:
- City facilities (arenas, recreation centres, parks, public plazas)
- Hosting regional and national major events
- Title sponsorship of community events and cultural programs
- Outdoor and public space advertising
- Exclusive supplier arrangements
- Food, beverage and other public space amenities
- Online recognition and holistic, integrated digital marketing
- Neighbourhood‑specific opportunities based on demographic interest
Current opportunities
Touchdown Kelowna
The City is looking for corporate partners for the upcoming Touchdown Kelowna event with BC Lions – a 10-day festival that will bring national recognition to our region on a scale we’ve not seen before.
Building Stronger Kelowna
Through this historic investment in recreational facilities and amenities across our City, we are looking for corporate partners who may be interested in long-term facility relationships with us. Leave a personal legacy or bring your brand into the spaces where wellness and sport development thrive!
Major Events Development
Over the next three years, Kelowna will be host to numerous major national or regional events, from the BC Summer Games to the Memorial Cup to the 2028 Special Olympics.
Partner with us
The community vision reflected in Imagine Kelowna recognizes that the well-being of our city is a shared responsibility and everyone needs to do their part to seize opportunities for improvement. Partnerships and sponsorships that provide economic and social benefits, and use a balanced approach to mobilizing resources, are an effective way to meet community needs.
We have a long history of engaging in partnerships with businesses, non-profits and charitable organizations and service groups. We share the benefits, risk and responsibilities with our partners. Through these relationships, many cherished community programs, services, facilities and amenities were established and continue to thrive.
Our partnerships can take on many different forms, but most share some common elements:
- Providing facilities, programs and services for the general public
- Operating and maintaining a City-owned asset (land and/or buildings)
- Administering City funding
Do you have an idea that can benefit the community? Share your idea with the City through the Unsolicited Proposal Program.
