The Local Channel

With TLC, you and your friends, neighbours and local groups can build your own community's website together without needing any technical skills or special software. Keep in touch with everyone, find out about local events, advertise your group, club or organisation and much more.

All not-for-profit organisations as well as town and parish councils in the Lewes District have the opportunity to benefit from a free community website. Lewes District Council has joined with The Local Channel to encourage our local communities to take advantage of free website facilities.

The Local Channel is helping to create vibrant, online communities that tackle issues of real local concern, such as policing, planning and the environment. To do this it provides local councils, clubs, societies and not-for-profit organisations with fully-functional, easy-to-use websites which, most importantly, are free.

Town and parish councils and not-for-profit organisations such as churches, schools, the Women’s Institute, registered charities, local clubs and associations can start setting up a website today through The Local Channel.

No specialist technical expertise is necessary to make use of The Local Channels website service for your community. There’s even a free telephone support service. If you’ve already got a website, you can still take advantage of this free service by creating a short web page within The Local Channel with a link to your own site. This will help to direct visitors to your own website.