Concerning the hyperlinks to sites belonging to churches, registered charities and non-profit organisations. A link to a charity on a commercial site should clearly indicate the reason for it's inclusion. Without some form of words to describe it's presence, implications abound. Does the site donate to, or is endorsed by, or in partnership with, or fully under the control of the charitable organisation named? Without specific declarations of the nature of the connection, a page with just the official logos of a dozen or so major charities, might suggest high levels of involvement in fund-raising, or a high value of donation due to the benevolent nature of the site's owner.
To para-phrase Mr. Churchill: Never has so much prominence been given to so many hyperlinks that imply associations to charitable organisations, of such high calibre, with so little proof of any tangible contributions made to them. I do not include the worthless sub domain given to a local church as a donation, (Christ Church). There is no commercial loss to the domain holder, who's main domain now takes on the appearance of a valid enterprise, of high enough standards for a church to attach it's name to.
Sadly the trust normally associated with "christchurch.birkenhead.net" will enhance the business credibility for "birkenhead.net" for as long as it can be found in a search engine.

Likewise links to sites with names containing the words "education" and "school" imply the linking site is sanctioned by the linked site. This time the most prominent links lead to domains that either don't return any pages at all, or return the results of the least amount of "work in progress" ever "inadvertently" linked to a hundred or so town indexes. Detailed inspection will reveal a staggeringly low ratio of any real content to the high number of domains. Equally bad is the ratio of functioning (registered) business site pages, to template pages designed to either gather sales-commissions, sale-able traffic and personal data (without Terms), or promote this schemes own expansion.
Other, (genuine) local listings follow the fundamental web principle of assembling a collection of choices in any link category, in an attempt to offer a useful "grouping" function, and sometimes a rating or opinions service.
All town-index sites direct the visitor to a single shopping scheme the owner profits from.

All of this is in the hands of rank amateurs, so no doubt it's all accidental, but some people may not have enjoyed finding out they had paid well over the market value only to discover their web business depends on a run-from-home, enterprise, staffed by someone who requires only a "working knowledge" of IT, and only "an interest" in web design to apply for such responsibility, and who assumes that responsibility within weeks of his first day of training.