Press betaThe Newsroom is free for working press while we build it out — request access below.
For Press
The independent UK, on the record.
A working press desk built on the Nearabouts atlas. Follow the regions you cover and hear the moment a listed independent puts on an event — with citable local data, story leads and a human who replies the same business day. Free for a one-person newsletter; useful to a national masthead.
1,116
independent places
66
regions
10
guides, pubs to potters
Counted one at a time by editors. No chains, no franchises, no paid placement.
What lands on your desk
Follow a region. The desk fills itself.
Event alerts
When a listed place in a region you follow publishes an event, you know — within the hour, daily, or weekly, your call. One email at a time, never a stream of pings.
Region fact sheets
Citable numbers for every region: how many independents, what kind, what's new this month, what's coming up — with an as-of date and a methodology you can print.
Story leads
Angles from our editorial desk — new clusters, milestones, anniversaries — every number checked against live data before it's posted. No AI-generated pitches, ever.
The data room
CSV downloads regenerated live: every region, every place you cover, every upcoming event. Free for editorial use with attribution.
A requests desk that answers
Interviews with owners and makers, custom data pulls, comment, images — tracked with statuses, answered the same business day.
A calendar that keeps itself
A personal iCal feed of every event in your regions. Paste it into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook once and your what's-on column stays current.
Every size of newsroom
Built for the parish newsletter and the national desk
The one-person newsletter
Your what's-on section, filled: a live events calendar and a ready-made CSV for the regions you write about. Zero budget required — the beta is free and stays free for working press.
The regional desk
A local data pulse nobody else has: new openings on the high street, a region crossing a milestone, the bakery turning a hundred. Signals computed from real listings, checked before you print.
The national masthead
Network-wide datasets across every nation and region, trend angles from the desk, and embargoed access to our flagship reports as they land. Custom cuts on request.
How it works
Four steps, no password
1
Request access
Two minutes: who you are, what you write, what you cover.
2
A human approves you
We review every request by hand — usually the same business day.
3
Follow your regions
Sign in with an emailed code. Pick regions; add beats if you only want food, or stays, or makers.
4
The desk fills itself
Events, new places, signals and leads flow to your newsdesk — and your inbox, at the pace you set.
Ground rules
What we promise working press
Free for working press — newsletters, podcasts, freelancers and student press included.
Our data is free to publish with attribution: “Source: Nearabouts” and a link.
Every number is computed from live listings, dated, and backed by a published methodology.
No AI-written pitches. Story leads are written by editors and checked before posting.
Quiet by default: you choose the pace, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
Your details run your account and nothing else — leave with one click and everything deletes.
Questions
The fine print, in plain English
Who counts as press?
Anyone doing journalism about places: staff reporters, freelancers, newsletter writers, podcasters, community papers, student press. If you publish for readers rather than clients, you count. We review requests by hand and err on the side of letting writers in.
What does it cost?
Nothing. The Newsroom is free during the beta, and the core of it — alerts, fact sheets, data, the requests desk — stays free for working press.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the atlas itself: places our editors have listed, one at a time, with no chains and no paid placement. Figures are counts of what's listed on Nearabouts — a curated sample, not a census — and every fact sheet says so, with an as-of date.
Can I republish your data and text?
Data: yes, for editorial use, with attribution. Boilerplate and brand marks: yes, from the media kit. Venue photographs are the venues' own — send an images request and we'll connect you with the owner directly.
How do event notifications work?
Operators publish events from their listing dashboards; community organisers submit them for review. The moment one goes live in a region you follow, it queues for your next alert — instantly, daily or weekly, and each event only ever reaches you once.
Talk to a person
On deadline, or not sure the Newsroom fits? Email the press desk — a human replies the same business day.
Email the press deskpress@nearabouts.co.uk