Destination Local projects

These are the ten Destination Local projects we are supporting through the programme:

Locali: Craigavon, Northern Ireland
My Town: Welshpool and Newtown, Wales
Local Edge: Leith and Broughton, Scotland
LocalSay: London, England
LOL! Leeds Online: Leeds, England
Papur Dre: Caernarfon, Wales
Our Town: Glasgow, Scotland
#21VC: Loddon, England
URTV: Helensburgh, Scotland
Kentishtowner, Kentish Town, England

Locali 

Craigavon, Northern Ireland

Locali will interact with the community, local council and local businesses to facilitate improved local engagement through a location-aware smartphone app.  The app will provide hyperlocal news and information - streamlining existing public information together with new hyperlocal content.  It will also allow citizens to feedback issues directly to the local council. 

My Town 

Welshpool and Newtown, Wales

MyTown will launch new sites, in addition to its existing two in Montgomeryshire.  It will create a location aware mobile app, on both Android and iOS, for all sites allowing geographically relevant content i.e. the latest news headlines to be viewed on mobile phones.  The service will also create push notifications and users of the app will also be able to upload their own content.

Local Edge

Leith and Broughton, Scotland

Local Edge will allow users to receive and post geographically relevant news and information on their mobile phones.  It will develop a loyalty card system working with local shops and service providers.  Users who participate in civic activities will also be rewarded with vouchers to spend at local stores. 

LocalSay

London, England

LocalSay will create a geographically relevant guide with an augmented reality feature allowing users easy access to useful local information.  It will also set out pending policy decisions e.g. planning applications, which are likely to impact the local area. Users will be able to share comments on the proposed decisions impacting their local area.

LOL! Leeds Online

Leeds, England

LOL! Leeds Online will develop a map based interface that allows access to its content via a mobile app. In addition to providing users with geographically relevant content, the app will use the map as its dashboard, allowing users to upload, search, read, comment, rate and tag news items. 

Papur Dre

Caernarfon, Wales

Papur Dre (Town Paper) is a community newspaper working with Cwmni Da, a television production company and Coleg Menai, a further education college in North West Wales.  Working together they will create a Welsh language mobile service that features news and information, using images, text and video.   Students from the college will have the opportunity to create content for the service and produce a hyperlocal video news channel.

Our Town

Glasgow, Scotland

Our Town is a mobile hyperlocal news service backed by one of Scotland's leading media companies.  The service will include both web apps, native apps and push notifications and will be piloted within a central belt town in Scotland.  Content for the service will be generated by professional journalists, businesses, charities, the local authority and user-generated.

#21VC 

Loddon, England

#21VC - 21^st Century Village Correspondent - is a project to develop the Loddoneye hyperlocal blog into a wi-fi access portal.  The service will also draw on content from the parish magazine and a community journalist, creating a local mobile service and wi-fi platform.

URTV

Helensburgh, Scotland 

URTV is an online hyperlocal TV service in Scotland. Following the success of Helensburgh TV, URTV will build a network of community owned, not-for-profit hyperlocal news channels.  Phase one of a mobile app has been completed and URTV will further develop the second phase app allowing for location based news and content to be rolled out across the network.

Kentishtowner  

Kentish Town, England

The Kentishtowner is a daily hyperlocal online magazine with a strong quality editorial focus. The Kentishtowner will develop an HTML5 version of the website and will include geo-tagging of all data optimised for mobile devices.  A variety of mobile content will be available, from detailed map-point local history walks to real-time shopping discounts. Local advertisers will also be offered the chance to alert potential customers to special offers as they pass near a shop.