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Voice For Locals

Partners / Data & Insights

What's In It For Partners

Everyday economy intelligence — collected daily, acted on today

Data and insights partners can work with Voice For Locals across three report types — Benefits Tracker for Local Economic Growth, STREET Feed for Everyday Economics, and Trading Standard Reports — designed to capture everyday economy intelligence every day in real time.

Data & Insights

Why partner with Voice For Locals?

Traditional economic data often arrives months late, when policy can only react. Voice For Locals is designed to place data collection points in communities nationwide so everyday economy reports can flow in continuously from shoppers, micro-enterprises and hard-to-reach residents. Policy makers could see confidence, cost-of-living pressure, cashflow, employment and early-warning signals as they happen — enabling proactive interventions instead of waiting three months for lagging official statistics. STREET stands for Smart Tracking of Realtime Everyday Economic Trends. Trading Standards and consumer-protection partners can use fraud alerts to surface illegal businesses and protect legitimate traders, while intelligence teams customise surveys and reports for their region.

Data, intelligence & enforcement partners

Trading Standards authorities Consumer protection agencies Local authority intelligence teams Economic research institutes Open data & analytics providers Regional & national policy teams

Partnership Value

What you gain as a partner

Three report types available to Data & Insights partners — scoped from national to postcode level, filterable and exportable as PDF.

Benefits Tracker for Local Economic Growth

Tracks whether local economic interventions are working — from jobs and business survival to rewards circulation and regeneration outcomes. Designed to show baseline vs target progress over time, scoped from national view down to postcode, so policy teams can see whether local growth strategies are delivering before lagging official data catches up.

STREET Feed for Everyday Economics

STREET — Smart Tracking of Realtime Everyday Economic Trends — is designed to capture how the everyday economy is behaving day by day: confidence, cost pressures, spending, cashflow, employment and early-warning signals. Built for partners who need everyday economics intelligence in a ready-to-view dashboard, not a quarterly retrospective.

Trading Standard Reports

Supports Trading Standards and consumer-protection partners with intelligence on suspicious operators, fraud patterns and illegal trading activity. Designed to help enforcement teams act on alerts, protect legitimate local businesses and share referral-ready reports scoped to their region.

Everyday Economy Intelligence

How are we different?

Most policy teams still rely on datasets that are published weeks or months after the fact. By the time a downturn shows up in lagging statistics, businesses have already closed and jobs have already gone. Voice For Locals is built for the everyday economy — the spending, trading and community activity that happens outside big corporate supply chains.

Proactive, not reactive

Everyday economics reports designed to be collected daily in real time — so partners can intervene while it still matters, instead of discovering problems three months later when official data finally lands.

Collection points nationwide

Built for a distributed network of data collection points across the country — capturing local signals from town centres, neighbourhoods and rural communities.

From signal to dashboard

Intelligence designed to flow into ready-to-view dashboards — Benefits Tracker, STREET Feed and Trading Standard Reports without a six-month analytics project.

Voice For Locals Data

Benefits of our everyday economy data

Intelligence built for the everyday economy — not just high streets, but the full picture of how communities earn, spend and trade every day.

Hard-to-reach people

Designed to include residents and communities often missed by traditional surveys — digitally excluded, economically inactive and underserved groups.

Micro-enterprises

Built to capture insights from sole traders, independents and micro-businesses that rarely appear in corporate or VAT-heavy datasets.

Diverse coverage

Structured for geographically and demographically diverse reporting that reflects how the everyday economy works on the ground.

Ready-to-view dashboard

No waiting for analysts to build slides — open the dashboard and see everyday economy indicators, trends and alerts immediately.

Customisable surveys

Tailor survey questions for your region, policy priority or partner programme without rebuilding the platform.

Customisable reports

Generate and export reports scoped to your geography, timeframe and audience — from ward level to national view.

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Ready to explore this partnership?

Tell us about your organisation and how you would like to contribute to the local digital ecosystem. You can also browse all partner types or learn about our Affiliate Programme.