What can I use my village site for?

Find My Nearest

This is the most popular function on the site and helps you to find information on your nearest community groups (such as brownies, WI groups etc.) and local businesses (such as plumbers, pubs, dentists etc.).

You can even use it to find detailed information on planning applications in your area!

Go and see Find My Nearest

Council Services

This is where you can find information about such things as council tax bands, rubbish collections, recycling, roads etc.

It contains information from Leicestershire County Council and all of the district and borough councils across the county.

Go and see Council Services

Add your own village news

Here you will find the latest news from your village. It could be anything from a report on the village fete to the winner of the pub quiz.

Once you have registered with the site you can add your own news items. It couldn't be easier; just click on ADD NEW and fill in the simple form and your item will be added to the village site.

Go and see the Leicestershire news section

Add details of your own events

The events section is essentially a village calendar and can contain details of any future activity within the community. It could be coffee mornings, the village fete, church services, meetings of the local brownies/scouts, fixtures of the village football team or even the pub quiz night. It really can contain ANY activities taking place in the village.

Go and see the Leicestershire events calendar

Add contact details for your community group

The contacts section can contain details of anyone that offers some kind of service to the community. This could be someone from the church, leader of the brownies/scouts, leader of the village football team or representative from any of the local groups.

Go and see the Leicestershire contacts section

Add a link to your own website

This is available for any websites that are useful to the local community. It could be a privately run village website or a website for a local group. Local businesses can also add details of their websites.

Go and see the Leicestershire web directory

Add your pictures to the village gallery

The picture gallery can include anything from the village, perhaps pictures of places of interest in the village, such as the pub, church or duckpond. It could also contain photos from particular events that have taken place, like images of the village fete or from the pub quiz night.

You can even add photographs taken with your mobile phone.
Remember that you can add photos to other villages. If you have taken photos of Ashby Castle, you can add them to the picture gallery in Ashby

Go and see the Leicestershire picture gallery

Sell items on the noticeboard

The noticeboard is effectively the classified ads section. It can contain items for sale, or you can celebrate someone’s special birthday. We’ve even had details of lost cats added to the noticeboard. It is also available for businesses to advertise local job vacancies.

As always, there is no charge for any of the services on the site.

Go and see the Leicestershire noticeboard

Get involved in the discussion forums

The discussion forums are available for people to talk about any issues in their community: anything from family history queries to complaining about the traffic through your village. You can view the village forum or you can pose a question to the Record Office in the history forum.

Have your own web page on the village site

You can have your own page on the village site. It could be to document the history of the village, create a virtual tour of the community or have a page for a local community group.

To do this all you need to do is to get in touch with us (admin@leicestershirevillages.com or call 0116 3055676) to ask for extra editing rights. Have a look at the summary of user levels to give you an idea of the different user levels on the site.

I want to be responsible for my village site
Click on the link if you would be interested in becoming the Site Administrator for your village site