Local Insight is primarily used by councils, grantmakers and charities. A subscription to Local Insight includes an unlimited number of users from your organisation.
Yes, you can have a two week free trial of Local Insight following a demo.
Local Insight is an annual subscription service. To discuss a quote for your organisation, please get in touch and we are happy to talk through some options with you.
Unfortunately, we do not. We keep our prices as low as possible, so there isn’t much room for discounts.
Due to the work that goes into Local Insight, our subscription costs are usually too high compared to the value you will get back as an individual user. We instead recommend that your academic institution subscribes.
Full training is provided so that you and your colleagues feel confident in using all aspects of the tool.
You also have access to technical and data support throughout your subscription.
There is step-by-step guidance on using all aspects of Local Insight through our Help Centre.
In addition, we run a monthly webinar programme, looking at a “deep dive” into new data or to provide some refresher training.
Local Insight is also available for Wales and Scotland.
Yes, you are able to share outputs from Local Insight with your partners – whether that is a copy of an area profile report, a dashboard export or a public site.
If you are referencing data from Local Insight or using map images within your own publications, please credit us using: “Data / Map via Local Insight“.
Local Insight is designed to be intuitive and easy to use, so you do not need any prior knowledge of GIS or data platforms in order to get value from the tool.
You will get full training on using the tool and ongoing support throughout your subscription.
That being said, many of our users are Data Analysts. Local Insight has been built by researchers and for researchers, we often use it in our own consultancy projects!
Local Insight is a continually evolving product and we keep the product development as user-led as possible.
We run user groups, which gives you the opportunity to contribute towards the future direction of the tool.
New functionality is usually rolled into Local Insight as part of the subscription cost, however we may from time to time charge for optional functionality or add-ons to the tool.