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Locaria

Everything your community has to offer. In one place.

Locaria brings local activities, services, organisations, businesses and information together in one easy-to-use community directory.

Help people discover what's happening around them. Give organisations a simple way to publish and maintain information. And gain valuable insight into what your community is searching for, and what might be missing.

Discover Locaria

Live in Derby, Erewash, Cardiff and West Wales.

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Help people find what they need

Community information is often fragmented across different websites, organisations, spreadsheets, leaflets and databases.

Locaria brings it together in one place.

The same platform, deployed under whichever name your community already uses.

Activity Finder

Sessions, clubs and classes, narrowed down by who they are for, when they run and how far away they are.

Community Directory

The organisations, groups and services working in your area, gathered into one list people can trust.

Local Information Portal

Activities, services, events and local information sitting side by side instead of scattered across sites.

Something of your own

Tailored entirely to your community. The same platform underneath, shaped around the people you serve.

People find things in whichever way suits them. Take your pick.

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23 results nearby

  • Adult beginners swim

    Leisure centre · Mon 7pm

  • Aqua-fit over 60s

    Community pool · Wed 10am

  • Family splash session

    Lido · Sat & Sun

  • Lane swimming

    Leisure centre · Daily 6–9am

One community. One place to discover it.

Designed around your community, not ours.

Every community is different, so Locaria doesn't force you into a fixed directory structure or interface. We work with you to design a portal around your users, your information and your objectives.

You decide the categories information is organised into, the filters people narrow it down with, the data each entry holds and the way the whole thing looks and reads.

And with Locaria's comprehensive administration interface, your team can carry on configuring and managing the portal themselves: adding a category, opening a new filter or turning on a feature without waiting on us.

Five kinds of listing. One directory.

Not just sessions: everything your community has to offer sits side by side.

  • Organisations

    The groups and bodies behind what is happening locally.

  • Events

    Find events on a date or across a range, in an events calendar, with featured events highlighted.

  • Volunteering

    Opportunities for people who want to give their time.

  • Information pages

    Pages such as About or Useful information, written by your team.

  • Directory entries

    General entries such as clubs, services and venues.

Entered something in the wrong place? You can move a listing to another part of the directory without retyping it.

Make contributing simple

Let your community help keep information up to date.

Locaria makes it easy for organisations, businesses and individuals to contribute information directly. Anyone can submit a new directory entry, while you remain in control of what gets published.

Our built-in moderation system can approve submissions from trusted contributors and data sources automatically, hold everything else for your team to check, and let entries be edited, managed or removed as information changes.

Your community keeps it current. Your team keeps it right.

Add a listing by chatting

Organisers describe their club, class or event in their own words.

The assistant asks only for what's missing, and uses your site's own categories and tags. It needs just a name and a postcode to start.

One conversation can cover several listings. The assistant checks whether the activity is already listed, and confirms the area is one your site covers.

And nothing goes live until a moderator has had a look: every public submission waits for approval.

Prefer another way in? There are plenty:

  • Online form
  • Poster and leaflet upload
  • Spreadsheet import
  • Quick add from the web
  • Partner feeds
  • Added by your own team

Bring your existing information with you

From spreadsheets and posters to APIs and open data.

Useful community information already exists in many different places. Locaria helps bring it together.

Import data from spreadsheets, connect third-party APIs and incorporate open-data sources.

Staff can type an organisation's name, and with Quick add from the web Locaria finds it online and drafts the listing.

You can even upload posters and leaflets, and Locaria can use AI to extract relevant information and turn it into structured directory content.

Locaria can work with data sources including:

  • OpenActive
  • OpenSessions
  • Open Referral UK
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Ordnance Survey Open Data
  • Overture
  • Foursquare Open Data
  • Third-party APIs

Fill the gaps in your directory

Research agents that find what is missing and fix what is wrong.

Nautoguide's research agents take the directory data you already have, clean it, check it, and then go looking for the clubs, groups and opportunities that nobody had recorded.

It is a service in its own right. You get back an augmented data set that works with any finder, whether or not you run a Locaria portal.

Explore the data enrichment service
Included as standard

OpenActive. Built in.

Bring local activity data directly into your portal.

OpenActive import is included with Locaria as standard, with no additional charge.

Locaria can automatically read OpenActive data relevant to your area, filter it according to your requirements, enrich the information and make it available for public discovery through your portal.

Less manual data entry. More activities for people to discover.

And it speaks the other standards too

  • OpenSessions

    Organisations and activities are sent to and brought in from the OpenSessions activity platform, and kept in step.

  • Open Referral UK

    The data standard is supported, and it is used in Derby.

Keep it current, without the effort

A directory is only useful while it's right.

Locaria does a lot of the checking for you. Every day it puts a manageable batch of listings in front of your team, so keeping things up to date becomes a few minutes of approving rather than a big project.

  • Daily review

    Each day a manageable batch of listings is checked and put forward for approval in place, so the directory never goes stale.

  • Duplicate checking

    New submissions are checked against existing listings before they reach the queue.

  • Check against the web

    Compare a listing with the organisation's own website and pick up any changes.

  • Fill in thin listings

    A listing with little description can be completed from the organiser's website or other trusted sources, ready for you to review.

  • Automatic expiry

    Past events and expired listings come down on their own, and drop out of search straight away.

  • Stays in your area

    Only listings inside your area, or online, are published.

Organisations manage themselves

A login takes a couple of clicks.

Give an organisation a login in a couple of clicks, and Locaria sends them a welcome message. They can edit their own details, their own listings, or both.

When a live listing is updated, the change waits for approval while the current version stays visible. So organisations stay in charge of their information, and you stay in charge of what's published.

Easy for your team to run

Clean, modern admin screens, with the guidance right there on them.

  • A help handbook built in

    Every admin screen has its own help page. They're searchable and printable, and you can add your own local guidance.

  • Emails in your own words

    Change the subject and wording of every email the system sends, and check the email log to see what went out.

  • The right access for everyone

    Administrators, moderators and organisation users each see only what they should.

Understand what your community needs

Turn searches into insight.

A community directory shouldn't just provide information. It should help you understand demand.

Locaria records every search and its results, so you can see demand by topic and place. "Can't find it?" requests show what residents want that isn't listed yet.

Discover:

  • What people are searching for
  • What they're successfully finding
  • What they can't find
  • Where information may be missing
  • What users suggest should be added
  • Which searches people want to be kept informed about

These insights can help organisations identify gaps in provision, improve services and make better-informed decisions about their communities.

Top searches · this month

  • swimming
  • food bank
  • youth club
  • warm spaces

Couldn't find

  • ESOL classes
  • wheelchair basketball
  • evening dentist

Suggested by users

  • Repair café
  • Men's shed
  • Walking football

Designed to be accessible

Help more people find the information they need.

Accessibility is built into Locaria rather than bolted on. Every portal is designed to be legible before anyone changes a setting, and to keep working when they do.

Portals work in English, Welsh and Urdu. Listings, content pages and searches are translated automatically, on the fly, so people find the same listing in their own language without you maintaining several directories. Light and dark display modes are there from the start, as is full keyboard navigation.

And because listings are marked up properly rather than drawn on screen, a screen reader announces each one in an order that makes sense: what it is, when it runs, where it is and what it costs.

As published

Cymraeg

Dark mode

Screen reader

WCAG 2.2 AA

Portals meet WCAG 2.2 AA, and each portal's accessibility statement is maintained automatically.

Find it. Save it. Share it.

Discovery doesn't have to end with a search.

Locaria's bookmarking system lets users create their own collections of useful activities, services and information.

Bookmarks can be:

  • Saved for later
  • Exported to spreadsheets
  • Emailed
  • Printed

This is useful for individual residents, and particularly powerful for caseworkers and support teams who need to find and recommend relevant activities or services for the people they support.

Sam's shortlist

3 saved

  • Carers' coffee morning

    Thursdays · Town hall

  • Chair-based exercise

    Mon & Wed · Community centre

  • Befriending phone service

    Free · Weekly call

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Residents get a say too

Alongside bookmarks and shortlists, people can stay informed and speak up.

  • Saved-search alerts

    Subscribe to a search and get an email when new matches appear.

  • Can't find it?

    Tell us what you looked for and didn't find. It feeds straight into your planning.

  • Report a listing

    Flag a listing as wrong or inappropriate. Moderators are told straight away.

Your data stays yours

No lock-in, no mixing, no strings.

  • Kept separate

    Each customer's listings, users and search are kept completely separate from every other customer's.

  • Yours to take

    Export everything to a spreadsheet whenever you like. Import mappings can be saved and reused.

  • Open to other systems

    Everything on the site is available through an open API, including search, listings, categories, content pages and submissions.

Secure and reliable

We look after the technical bits, so you can look after your community.

  • Nothing goes live unchecked: public, chat and poster submissions can never publish themselves.
  • Security review completed.
  • Encrypted connections, and only your own systems hold a key to the data service.
  • Privacy by design: the chat assistant stores no visitor addresses, and conversations are deleted automatically.
  • Fully managed: we host, update and look after the site, so there's nothing for you to install.
  • Round-the-clock monitoring: errors are reported to us the moment they happen.
  • Tested before every release: every part of Locaria is checked automatically before an update goes live.
  • Reliable email: emails are queued and retried.

What's new

More than 170 improvements in the last three months.

Here are the headlines from July to early October 2026.

Customers help shape the roadmap, and new capabilities built for one community are switched on for all.

Also new

  • Better, typo-tolerant search
  • Every listing findable by search engines
  • Listings kept in your area
  • Expired events removed promptly
  • Days of the week on listings
  • The daily review list
  • Move a listing
  • Draw your area on a map
  • The tidy-up tool
  • Safer deletions
  • Editable emails
  • Organisation logins in two clicks
  • Simpler date entry
  • Chat assistant settings
  • Automatic image resizing

Your community's data should work for your community.

Locaria doesn't just connect people with information. By bringing together local information and capturing how people interact with it, Locaria creates a valuable picture of local interests, needs and information gaps, with usage data retained within your community environment.

  • Connect your community.
  • Make local information easier to discover.
  • Learn what people really need.

About Locaria

Helping communities discover themselves through data.

Locaria is developed by Nautoguide Ltd.

Our work with community directories began in early 2025, building on our experience developing software for the capture, publication and discovery of location-based information.

That technology has evolved into Locaria: a platform designed to make community information easier to contribute, manage, discover and understand.

We're on a journey to help communities discover themselves and improve people's lives through data.

See Locaria in action

One platform. Different communities. Built around their needs.

Locaria can be configured for different communities, audiences and objectives, from local community directories to dedicated activity and sports finders.

Explore some of the communities already using Locaria.

Read how Derby's Community Directory came about

Same technology. A completely different experience.

Each Locaria deployment can have its own identity, categories, filters, data sources and user experience.

Each one is set up around its own community, so no two look or work quite the same.

Ready to bring your community together?

Whether you need an activity finder, community directory, local information portal or something entirely your own, Locaria can be configured around your organisation and the people you serve.

Or email us at info@nautoguide.com