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.
Already building in Derby, Erewash, Cardiff and West Wales.
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.
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
Sport
128 listings
Health
94 listings
Family
76 listings
Learning
61 listings
Volunteering
43 listings
Days out
38 listings
Who for
When
Cost
Matching now
5of 10 nearby
and 2 more
Saturday parkrun
Sport · 9:00am · 0.4 mi
In view
Saturday parkrun
Sport · 9:00am · 0.4 mi
Walking netball
Sport · Tue 6pm · 0.8 mi
Badminton club
Sport · Thu 7pm · 3.4 mi
Community choir
Music · Wed 7pm · 1.8 mi
Anything for toddlers on a Tuesday?
Yes, four toddler groups run on Tuesdays near you.
Little Explorers
10am · Library
Rhyme Time
11am · Children's centre
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.
Your team stays in charge.
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.
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.
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:
- OpenStreetMap
- Ordnance Survey Open Data
- Overture
- Foursquare Open Data
- Third-party APIs
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.
Understand what your community needs
Turn searches into insight.
A community directory shouldn't just provide information. It should help you understand demand.
Locaria monitors search patterns to provide valuable management information about how your portal is being used.
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
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.
Translation happens on the fly, so a Welsh speaker and an English speaker find the same listing without you maintaining two 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.
One listing, however someone needs to read it.
As published
Cymraeg
Dark mode
Screen reader
We test your portal against the latest applicable WCAG accessibility standards, helping you provide a service that works for as many people as possible.
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 savedCarers' coffee morning
Thursdays · Town hall
Chair-based exercise
Mon & Wed · Community centre
Befriending phone service
Free · Weekly call
Built to evolve with you
Start with what you need today. Add what you need tomorrow.
Locaria is highly customisable and modular by design.
That means we can quickly introduce new capabilities as your requirements evolve without forcing you to replace the platform or start again.
And because Locaria is developed as a community-focused platform, improvements don't happen in isolation. New capabilities developed for the platform can benefit the wider Locaria community too.
Your directory gets better as Locaria gets better.
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.
It helps communities understand themselves.
- 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.
Same technology. A completely different experience.
Each Locaria deployment can have its own identity, categories, filters, data sources and user experience.
That's the difference with Locaria: we don't ask your community to fit our platform. We configure the platform to fit your community.
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.
Let's build a better way for your community to discover what's available.
Or email us at info@nautoguide.com