A working Placeboard set in Ripon. The map, the drive times and the year of events are real. The businesses, requests and results are examples. Send a request as a local business, approve it as the council, and open the dashboard.
A demonstration only. Ripon City Council, Ripon BID and Visit Ripon are not involved, and nothing you send goes anywhere.
Businesses and partners send events, offers, news and listing changes in one place. Each request is logged and goes to the council before anything is published. Try it: send the request, then approve it as the council.
Every request is logged with who sent it, who approved it and where it was published.
Example businesses. Nothing you send here goes anywhere.
Council officers get their own login: where the work is, what needs their sign-off, every document delivered and every monthly report. Approvals are logged with who gave them and when.
Client portal · Digital marketing
Plan and milestones
Waiting for Council sign-off
Documents
Monthly reports
Each report covers headline numbers, what worked, what did not, business participation, paid spend and next month’s plan.
A sample project. Ripon City Council is not involved.
Built around Ripon’s real calendar: the racecourse, the cathedral, the market and Fountains Abbey. Every season has hero content, a way for businesses to join in and a measure agreed up front.
Gift guides from independents, festive food and drink, Christmas at the cathedral and winter days out at Fountains Abbey.
Winter walks at Studley Royal, indoor days out, new openings and reasons for residents to shop local.
Easter family days out, the Thursday market, and the start of the flat season at Yorkshire’s Garden Racecourse.
Race days, the canal and riverside walks, outdoor dining, St Wilfrid’s Procession in early August and the Great St Wilfrid at the racecourse.
Heritage Open Days, the last race meetings of the year, the cathedral, and the World Heritage Site at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal.
The Christmas lights switch-on in the Market Square, the cathedral’s Christmas food and gift fair, and parking and travel information.
A dashboard the council can open any day, and a two-page report each month: who was reached outside the town, what they clicked through to, and how many businesses took part.
Real city, made-up numbers. These figures show the format. They are not Ripon’s results.
Paste two lines into your existing site and What’s On runs itself. It is a direct feed: when the council approves a request on the board, it appears on your website straight away. Try it: approve a request in section 01 and watch it arrive here.
The feed shows real Ripon events and example businesses. It is not on any Ripon website.
£995 a year
or £100 a month
For places that already have a website they are happy with.
from £1,995 to build
Then £995 a year or £100 a month, hosting included. For places with no visitor website, or one that is past saving.
Founding place prices for 2027, excluding VAT. Want us to run the campaigns and reporting as well? We quote that separately.
We are looking for a small number of founding places to shape it with us.