For Active Partnerships
One service for finding activity and everything around it.
Locaria is an activity finder and a community directory in one service. It is built with each Partnership rather than sold to it, it draws on OpenActive and every other source you have, and it is priced to sit below procurement thresholds.
Live with Active Partners Trust, West Wales Sports Partnership and Cardiff Met Sport.
An activity finder and a community directory
Most Partnerships need both, and most products offer one.
Locaria lists sessions, clubs and classes in the way an activity finder should: by who they are for, when they run and how far away they are. It also holds the organisations, support services and places around them, so that a resident looking for a walking group finds the befriending service next to it.
Derby's Community Directory, built for Active Partners Trust, is organised as Support that can help me, Things I can do and Places I can go. The same build was cloned for Erewash within weeks.
Each Partnership decides its own categories, filters and wording, and its own team maintains the directory through the administration interface once it is live.
Aligned with Sport England's priorities
Locaria is designed around the outcomes Partnerships are asked to report on.
- Health signposting
- Health professionals, link workers and residents find activity alongside the support services around it, in one search, rather than in separate lists.
- Tackling inequalities
- Search behaviour shows which communities are looking for something and not finding it, so provision can be directed at the places that need it most.
- Frictionless access
- No account, no app and no jargon. A resident types what they want and where they are, and the nearest sessions appear.
What a good activity finder does
Whichever finder a Partnership chooses, these are the things worth checking for. Locaria does all of them.
- Keyword and location search
- Clubs and organisations, not just sessions
- Save and share shortlists
- Saved-search alerts
- “Can't find it?” requests
- Report a listing
- WCAG 2.2 AA, with an automatically maintained accessibility statement
- English, Welsh and Urdu, plus automatic translation
- The data belongs to the Partnership, through export and an open API
OpenActive, and every other source you have
OpenActive feeds for your area are imported, filtered and enriched automatically, and they are included at no charge for the life of the service.
Locaria does not depend on them. Spreadsheets, posters, partner APIs and open data are imported alongside OpenActive, and organisations contribute directly through the portal. Whatever happens to OpenActive funding after June 2027, the directory keeps working and keeps growing.
- OpenActive feeds
- OpenSessions
- Open Referral UK
- Spreadsheets
- Posters and leaflets, read by AI
- Third-party APIs
- Open data
- Direct contributions from organisations
Moving from your current finder
Changing finder should not mean starting again.
Migration is included
Nautoguide moves your existing data into Locaria as part of the service.
Your feeds carry over
OpenActive and OpenSessions data carry over to your new portal.
No new sign-ups
Providers do not have to sign up again.
Evidence for your reporting
Every search is a data point about what residents want.
Locaria records what people search for, what they find and what they cannot find, by area. The result is a search-gap analysis: where demand for activity exists and provision does not.
Two further sources add to that picture. "Can't find it?" requests record what residents looked for and did not find, and alert subscriptions show which searches residents want to be kept informed about.
Partnerships use it as evidence in Sport England and Place Partnership reporting, and to decide where the next investment in provision should go. Usage data stays within your own environment.
Already in use
Four live portals, one platform.
Active Partners Trust runs Derby's Community Directory and Erewash Connected. Cardiff Met Sport and West Wales Sports Partnership each run their own.
Start with a complete directory
Migration is included. Enrichment is available.
Nautoguide migrates your existing directories into Locaria as part of the service.
Where the existing data is thin, our data enrichment service, a separate offer priced on its own, cleans it and finds the clubs, groups and opportunities that were never recorded. The enriched data set is yours to use with any finder, and an optional annual refresh keeps it current.
Indicative pricing
Designed to fit a below-threshold purchase.
- Negotiable
- A one-off implementation fee
- £300 per month
- all-inclusive: hosting, support and updates, with every OpenActive feed included at no charge for the life of the service
Data migration from your existing directories is carried out by Nautoguide. Data enrichment, with an optional annual refresh, is available separately.
Talk to Dave
A 30-minute call is enough to see Locaria configured for your Partnership and to talk through the pricing.
Dave Barter · dave@nautoguide.com