PowerShare
What is PowerShare?
PowerShare is a free civic tool built by People's Powerhouse. Enter your postcode and it shows you every layer of government covering your address, your elected representatives, your rights, upcoming elections, and a suite of tools to help you take action.
What does the postcode search actually show me?
Your full governance stack: your ward and district councillors, county councillor (where applicable), combined authority mayor, and Member of Parliament. Each tier shows who holds the role, what they are responsible for, and how to contact them directly.
What are the statutory tools?
71 plain-English legal guides across 15 categories including housing, employment, benefits, healthcare, education, consumer rights, immigration, mental health, and data rights. Each tool explains what the law says, what you are entitled to, and who the right body is to contact or complain to.
What is the FOI request builder?
A guided tool that drafts a legally correct Freedom of Information request addressed to the right public body. Every public authority in England is required by law to respond within 20 working days. The tool is free and requires no account.
How does the letter-writing tool work?
A four-step guided flow. You choose your issue, select your tone (formal, concerned, urgent), and the tool drafts a letter pre-addressed to your MP or councillor. You can edit it freely and send via email or WriteToThem.
What elections information is available?
Upcoming elections in your area pulled live from Democracy Club, including local, combined authority, and parliamentary elections. You can view candidates, check registration deadlines, and find your polling station.
What does the Council Spending Explorer show?
How your council allocates its budget across services, links to open spending data and published annual accounts, and a direct path into the FOI builder if you want to ask specific questions about expenditure.
What is the Political Literacy section?
Six interactive explainers covering how Parliament works, how laws are made, what devolution means for your area, how to hold power to account, and more. Each module includes a short quiz so you can test your understanding.
Is PowerShare free to use?
Yes, completely free. No account needed, no data stored, no adverts. It works in any modern browser in England.
Does PowerShare work outside England?
Currently England only. Governance structures in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are different and not yet supported.
C2C Listening Platform
What is the C2C platform?
Coast to Coast (C2C) is a community listening platform built for People's Powerhouse. It gives field listeners a mobile tool to capture community conversations, and gives researchers a dashboard to analyse those conversations at scale using AI.
Who is the Listener App for?
Field listeners who conduct one-to-one conversations in community settings such as parks, cafes, doorsteps, and community centres. The app guides them through recording a conversation, completing an exit reflection, and submitting everything securely.
Does the Listener App work without internet?
Yes. The app includes an offline recording mode. Conversations can be recorded without a connection and queued for upload automatically when connectivity is restored, so patchy signal in community settings does not block a submission.
How is consent handled?
Consent must be recorded before any submission is accepted. The app supports in-app digital consent, verbal consent with a timestamp, and paper consent with a reference number. The consent method and timestamp are stored permanently alongside the submission.
What happens after a conversation is submitted?
The audio is automatically transcribed using OpenAI Whisper, the listener's voice is separated from the community member's voice, and Claude AI extracts structured themes including attitudes and beliefs, experiences and stories, barriers and challenges, and actions and behaviours. The processed submission appears in the researcher dashboard, usually within a few minutes.
What is the exit reflection?
A short reflection the listener completes after each conversation. It covers three prompts (Everyday Life, Feeling Heard, Imagining Better) and a free-text summary. Listeners can record this as audio or complete it via a typed Google Form if they prefer.
What does the Researcher Dashboard show?
All submissions across your organisation, filterable by location, date, listener, status, and quality score. Each submission shows the audio player, full transcript, diarised transcript (listener vs. community member), AI-extracted themes, and the listener's exit reflection.
What AI analysis is applied to each conversation?
Claude AI (claude-sonnet-4-20250514) analyses the community member's transcript and extracts five structured categories: attitudes and beliefs, experiences and stories, barriers and challenges, actions and behaviours, and themes. It also flags anything requiring urgent attention.
How are safeguarding concerns handled?
Listeners can raise a wellbeing flag on any submission. Flagged submissions are surfaced prominently in the researcher dashboard and tracked in a dedicated queue so they are never missed. Researchers can escalate and add notes against any flagged record.
Is the C2C platform GDPR compliant?
Yes, fully. Before any conversation begins, the listener must explain the purpose of the recording, how the data will be used, and confirm that all data is anonymised before analysis. The speaker must verbally agree to proceed. That consent is recorded in the platform with a timestamp and method before the submission is accepted. No conversation can be submitted without a consent record in place. Data is stored securely, scoped to the collecting organisation, and never shared without explicit opt-in.
Can data be exported?
Yes. Researchers can export submissions as CSV or PDF. All exports are logged in an audit trail alongside any other sensitive actions such as viewing, sharing, or deleting a record.
