Are You Local?

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Last updated:

22/05/07

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Overall Star rating:

Summary/Overview:

The website is aimed at joining together residents, groups and businesses based within local areas. The website claims as its objective to "give people new ways to discover what their local community has to offer; to help them share opinions and ideas within the community; to make new friends in their neighbourhood; to encourage them to get involved with local activities and organisations."

The website has a number of good features such as tailor-made newsletters for groups, a website creation service, and an interest-matcher which allows people to connect with other members of their community or to develop existing connections or groups assisted by the free tools provided.

The potential weakness of the site is that it is entirely dependent on the users as content is entirely user-driven. Because the site is new, the number of users is still low.

Website address:

http://www.areyoulocal.co.uk

Organisation:

areyoulocal ltd.

Type of site:

Online Community / network

Services Offered:

Forum, Other: Meet and do (see above for further details) website provision for groups, online buying/selling, tailor made online newsletters

Policy Area:

Neighbourhoods, Community Development, General

Direct User:

Citizen, Activist

Direct User - Specialist Groups:

Not Specialist

Target Audience/Intended Participants:

General