Check a sponsorship opportunity’s history

The History tab is an audit trail of who has looked at or changed a sponsorship opportunity. Use it when a safeguarding lead needs to know who has accessed a person’s details, or to understand how a profile reached its current state.

Before you start

You need sponsorship:read:audit. Without it, the History tab doesn’t appear. Opening the tab is itself recorded, as History viewed.

Open the history

  1. Open the sponsorship opportunity.
  2. Choose the History tab.

Read the history

Column What it shows
When The date and time
Action What was done (see below)
By Who did it
Outcome Allowed, Refused (the person didn’t have permission) or Partly withheld (some details were hidden from them)
Action Recorded when someone
Viewed Opened the sponsorship opportunity
Listed Saw it in a list
Consent history viewed Opened the Consent tab
History viewed Opened the History tab
Created / Updated Added or changed it
Profile saved Saved a new profile version
Submitted, Approved, Rejected Moved it through review
Put on hold, Released Held or released it
Consent recorded Recorded a consent or withdrawal

If the history shows access you didn’t expect, particularly repeated Refused entries, raise it with your safeguarding lead and your beehive administrator.

If it shows Nothing recorded yet., no activity has been logged. Failed to load the history. means it couldn’t be loaded: refresh the page.

Related: how sponsorship works.