welovelocal is the smart new way to find businesses and services you'll love by reading reviews and ratings from people you can trust.

We believe everyone's a local expert. We all have a favourite local restaurant, know a friendly shopkeeper, or have used an ultra reliable tradesperson at one time or another. At welovelocal we want to put that local knowledge online.

Of course we don't all have the same tastes, budgets and levels of expectation, so the hairdresser Marge (aged 65 who likes ballroom dancing and spending time with her grandchildren) uses is probably not so suitable for Chloe, aged 23 who loves the Arcade Fire and spent last summer backpacking around Central America. As such, along with recommendations, you can find out more about the person who submitted a review by reading their profile. The aim is to find businesses and services recommended by people just like you.
By inviting people to your network of Local Insiders, along with your friends and family, welovelocal becomes a great place to share your local knowledge, support your favourite businesses and benefit from those you can trust.

We believe that the strongest form of marketing for any business is personal recommendation. Through the ratings and reviews you submit, the best (and worst) local businesses and services are easily identified. Businesses can also join the conversation by responding to reviews and adding up-to-date useful information about themselves to help Local Insiders find out more about what they have to offer.
This way we all win. Customers talking to other customers talking to businesses. Businesses get the vital feedback they need to help improve their services and customers know that their comments don't go ignored. Furthermore, by keeping customers and businesses in closer contact, businesses can pass on better, more up to date information on deals, events and new products and services.

Who made welovelocal?
welovelocal is the labour of eMomentum, a privately funded internet company dedicated to investing and creating remarkable consumer focussed websites. If you like welovelocal and think you'd like to work on this and similar projects then let us know, we'd love to find out more about you.

Why welovelocal.com?
Quite simply, we love local! Most people often miss out on all the great shops and services in their area, because they never knew they existed. Worse still, sometimes some of the not-so-great businesses and services seem to be popular just because they can spend more on advertising. We wanted to re-address this balance and give local shops and services the opportunity to get more of an online presence and benefit from positive word mouth.