LoveLocalJobs.com

What LoveLocalJobs.com does

LoveLocalJobs.com is a privately-held regional job board and recruitment platform serving Sussex and South East England, founded in 2010 as BrightonandHoveJobs.com and rebranded in 2018. The company connects local employers with local job seekers via a self-serve online platform powered by Jobiqo job board software, offering a tiered product lineup — Standard (£99), Enhanced (£169), and Premium (£199) job ad packages running 30 days each — plus free postings for Sussex charities, nonprofits, community interest companies, and the 600+ businesses on the Manor Royal Business District. It supplements this marketplace with Love Local Recruitment Solutions, a specialist search division providing executive search, contingency recruitment, and tailored on-site talent solutions for senior management, HR, and commercial roles.

The company monetises through a hybrid of transactional job-ad fees, bespoke unlimited annual subscriptions (available via sales contact), and professional-services recruitment fees, while distributing through self-serve e-commerce, direct enterprise sales, job fair events (Manor Royal Jobs Fair, University of Brighton Part Time Jobs Fair, East Sussex Apprenticeship Roadshow, London Gatwick Airport Careers Fair), and channel partnerships with Manor Royal BID, Employ Crawley, Crawley Job Centre, Crawley College, University of Brighton, and the Sussex Council of Training Providers. The platform has 3,017 registered employers and 1,410+ active job listings, with named enterprise customers including Virgin Atlantic, Rentokil Initial, Elekta, London Gatwick Airport, South East Water, SECAmb, Marshall Motor Group, and CAE, alongside education and charity customers such as Brighton College, Roedean School, YMCA DownsLink Group, Age UK West Sussex, and Wave Active.

The LoveLocalJobs Foundation, launched in 2018 and granted UK charitable status in 2023, runs the Dare to Dream schools programme that has engaged thousands of young people across the South East and underpins the company's community-rooted brand moat. The legal entity LoveLocalJobs.com Limited is an independent, bootstrapped private limited company registered in England and Wales, with no disclosed external funding rounds, no parent company, and founder Gary Peters (named Sussex Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014) still active. GWP Investments Limited holds related trademarks including Brightonandhovejobs.com and Love Jobs. The company is headquartered in Hove (168 Church Road, BN3 2DL) with a trading office in Brighton (Pelham House, BN1 4ET).

Name

LoveLocalJobs.com

Legal name

LoveLocalJobs.com Limited

Website

https://lovelocaljobs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

LoveLocalJobs.com is a Sussex-based regional job board and recruitment platform connecting local employers with local job seekers via tiered pay-as-you-go job ads (£99–£199), a specialist executive search division, and free postings for charities and Manor Royal BID businesses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Executive Search Services (561312)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPACAFAF

Administrative, Clerical & Office Support Direct Hire

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Permanent Placement & Direct Hire

SECONDARYBPACAAAA

C-Suite & Board Search

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Executive Search & Headhunting

Keywords

• Regional job board
• Online recruitment platform
• Job advertising packages
• Executive recruitment services
• Apprenticeship job postings

Headquarters

HQ city

Brighton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Job Advertisement Packages: Three-tier job advertising subscription model: Standard (£99), Enhanced (£169), and Premium (£199). Job listings remain live for 30 days. Additional charges for replacement/deleted adverts.
2. Recruitment Solutions: Specialist search and recruitment services for executive search, contingency solutions, and tailored on-site talent solutions. Covers Accountancy, Finance & Payroll, Human Resources, Legal, Office & Admin, Sales & Marketing, Senior Management, and Technology roles.
3. Specialized Advertising Packages: Discounted 50% education advertising package for educational institution vacancies. Free posting for volunteer opportunities by Sussex-based charities, community interest companies, and nonprofits. Free unlimited job postings for Manor Royal businesses.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

LoveLocalJobs.com operates an online job board platform serving Sussex and South East England, where employers purchase tiered job advertisement packages (Standard £99, Enhanced £169, Premium £199) to post vacancies. The platform also runs a specialist recruitment solutions division providing executive search and contingency hiring for HR, senior management, and commercial roles, supplemented by free posting services for charities and Manor Royal Business District companies.

Product overview

LoveLocalJobs.com is a regional job board platform serving Sussex and South East England, offering a tiered job advertising product lineup (Standard at £99, Enhanced at £169, and Premium at £199) with varying levels of visibility and features. The platform operates as a jobs marketplace connecting local employers with job seekers, supplemented by a specialist recruitment solutions division (Love Local Recruitment Solutions) for executive and senior management placements. The company also runs the LoveLocalJobs Foundation with its Dare to Dream schools programme and partners with Manor Royal BID to provide free job postings for local businesses. Volunteer opportunities for registered charities are posted free of charge year-round.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Love Local Recruitment Solutions: Specialist search division providing recruitment solutions for HR, Senior Management, and Commercial roles.
• LoveLocalJobs Foundation

Products and services

• Standard Job Ad Entry-level job posting package priced at £99 per listing, featuring company logo visibility, live listing within minutes, and 30-day posting duration. Targeted at small businesses hiring locally.
• Enhanced Job Ad Mid-tier job posting package at £169 per listing including all Standard features plus candidate filtering questions, featured job status on homepage, and inclusion in one candidate email campaign. Marketed as the most popular option.
• Premium Job Ad Top-tier job posting at £199 with maximum exposure including all Enhanced features plus extra homepage visibility, social media enhancement across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and admin support for job details.
• Love Local Recruitment Solutions Specialist search and recruitment division offering executive search, contingency solutions, and tailored on-site talent solutions for HR, Senior Management, and Commercial roles across Accountancy, Finance, HR, Legal, Office & Admin, Sales & Marketing, Technology sectors.
• Manor Royal Jobs Board Free and unlimited job postings for companies located in Manor Royal Business District, provided in partnership with Manor Royal BID to support the local Crawley business community.
• Free Volunteer Opportunities Free job posting service for Sussex-based charities, community interest companies, and nonprofits to advertise volunteer opportunities year-round.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,017 employers and 1,410+ active job listings on platform
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Manor Royal BIDcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerManor Royal Business Improvement District (BID) has partnered with LoveLocalJobs.com since 2017 to provide FREE and unlimited job postings for all 600+ businesses located on Manor Royal Business District. The partnership supports the local Crawley business community and facilitates hiring for companies in the Manor Royal employment zone.
• Employ CrawleycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmploy Crawley partners with LoveLocalJobs.com to co-deliver the Manor Royal Jobs Fair and other employment initiatives in the Crawley area, supporting local job seekers and employers.
• Crawley Job CentreminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment employment service partner supporting the Manor Royal Jobs Fair and local employment initiatives in Crawley.
• Crawley CollegeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducational institution partner supporting the Manor Royal Jobs Fair and apprenticeship initiatives in the Crawley area.
• University of BrightoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to deliver the University of Brighton Part Time Jobs Fair, connecting Sussex-based businesses with motivated university students seeking part-time employment. More than 600 students attended last year's event.
• Sussex Council of Training Providers (SCTP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCTP partners with LoveLocalJobs.com for the East Sussex Apprenticeship Roadshow, helping organizations showcase apprenticeship opportunities to young people in the region.
• Gatwick Diamond Business AwardsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLoveLocalJobs.com is a Gatwick Diamond Member and supports the Gatwick Diamond Business Awards, which have celebrated local businesses for over 15 years. The awards bring together the best of the Gatwick Diamond Business area.
• LoveLocalJobs FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe LoveLocalJobs Foundation leverages local business inspiration to engage and inspire young people through the Dare to Dream schools programme, which has inspired thousands of young people across the South East. The foundation achieved charitable status in 2023.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Jobsite: Established UK national job board offering tiered posting packages and employer branding — comparable pay-per-post model serving UK employers including enterprise customers.
• Indeed UK: Global dominant job search platform with significant UK presence and largely free posting for employers — comparable as a job seeker destination but operates at massive scale with a fundamentally different (volume-based) business model.
• Adzuna: UK job search engine aggregating listings from multiple sources — comparable as a job discovery platform for UK job seekers but operates a meta-search/aggregator model rather than direct listings.
• Totaljobs: Major UK national job board with tiered job posting products and enterprise recruitment solutions — directly comparable product model but operating at significantly larger scale across all UK regions.
• CV-Library: One of the UK's largest national job boards with a pay-per-post pricing model and broad sector coverage — closely comparable business model to LoveLocalJobs.com but at national scale.
• Reed: UK's largest recruitment group operating a national job board alongside its staffing agency — comparable in offering both paid job postings and recruitment solutions, but with a much broader geographic and sector footprint.

Emerging players

• Caterer.com: UK specialist job board (hospitality sector) with tiered posting packages and sector-specific employer base — comparable operating model to LoveLocalJobs.com but focused on a single vertical.
• JobToday: Mobile-first UK job board targeting SMBs and hourly workers with a self-serve posting model — comparable self-serve pay-per-post GTM and SMB target customer, though focused on London and shift-based roles.

Direct peers

• JobsGoPublic: UK-focused job board specializing in public sector, voluntary, and not-for-profit roles — directly comparable to LoveLocalJobs.com's stated focus on the public and voluntary sectors and its free charity posting model.
• Milkround: UK-focused job board originally targeting graduates and now broader entry-level roles — comparable to LoveLocalJobs.com's university partnership strategy (e.g., University of Brighton Part Time Jobs Fair) and SMB employer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/lovelocaljobscom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lovelocaljobs
• Xx.com/lovelocaljobs

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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