Local Storytelling Exchange

Name

Local Storytelling Exchange

Legal name

Local Storytelling Exchange

Website

https://localstoryexchange.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-profit Climate Storytelling Services

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (51311), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711), Television Broadcasting Stations (4833)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAJADAB

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/News Publishing (Newspapers, Digital Newsrooms, Wire Services)

SECONDARYMPAJADAG

Community, Ethnic & Multilingual News Publishers

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/News Publishing (Newspapers, Digital Newsrooms, Wire Services)

SECONDARYMPACAJAI

Local & Neighborhood Community Platforms

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Social Networking & Community Platforms

Keywords

• Climate storytelling
• Local journalism support
• Green transition media
• Community storytelling
• Nonprofit media services

Headquarters

HQ city

Various regions across UK

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Funding: The organization is a non-profit funded entirely by philanthropic organisations including the European Climate Foundation, JJ Charitable Trust, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. No commercial revenue streams.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Local Storytelling Exchange is a UK-based non-profit that finds, develops, and distributes untold local stories about climate change and the green transition. It operates a nationwide network of regional Storytellers who surface under-reported local climate stories, develop them into publishable formats, and place them with regional and national journalists and media outlets free of charge. The organization also runs a digital stories platform with an interactive map, provides training and resources for journalists, and supports policy and campaigning organizations to localize their climate messaging.

Product overview

The Local Storytelling Exchange is a non-profit organization offering storytelling, community engagement, and media relations services focused on the green transition. Their core offering is finding and amplifying stories of everyday climate action from communities across Britain. They operate through a network of regional Storytellers in Cornwall, East Anglia, North East, Scotland, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, and Wales, connecting these stories to local, regional, and national media outlets. Their Our Stories platform provides an interactive map of stories covering diverse topics from energy to sustainable building.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Regional Storytelling Network
• Our Stories Platform
• Free Stories Service for Journalists
• Climate Journalism Training and Resources
• Policy Localization Service

Quantifiable outcome

• 1000+ stories sourced and developed
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Social Change NestcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosts the Local Storytelling Exchange and provides safeguarding infrastructure. An organisation supporting social change initiatives with administrative and operational support.
• Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCase study partnership where the Exchange amplified ECIU's research on net zero economic hotspots. Exchange storytellers regionalised press releases and secured coverage in Northern Echo, Newcastle Chronicle, Wear Business, Business Live, Radio Sheffield, and Yorkshire Post. Demonstrates collaboration between research organisation and storytelling network to give national research local impact.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• openDemocracy: Non-profit, reader-funded investigative and public-interest news outlet covering politics, climate and social justice. Peer as an independent non-profit news publisher whose mission-aligned journalism targets mainstream outlets and direct audiences on the green transition.
• Carbon Brief: UK-based climate-focused news website publishing rigorous, science-led journalism on the energy transition. Peer because it produces specialised climate news content for UK audiences via a small editorial team, mirroring the Exchange's mission to inform public debate on climate.
• Climate Central: US-based non-profit climate communications organisation producing visualisations, stories and news content for media partners across the US and globally. Direct peer in the same non-profit news-and-communications-for-media category; differs in geography and in heavy emphasis on scientific visualisation.
• Climate Outreach: UK-registered climate communications charity dedicated to broadening public engagement with climate change. Most direct peer: shares the mission of making climate narratives more inclusive and locally relevant, and is the prior employer of the Exchange's Head of Programmes & Development.
• DeSmog: Investigative journalism outlet covering climate disinformation and the energy transition. Peer because it produces investigative, narrative-driven climate journalism as a non-profit, intersecting with the Exchange's mission to push climate stories into mainstream news.
• Bureau of Investigative Journalism: UK-based non-profit investigative newsroom producing in-depth reporting on issues of public interest for republication in mainstream media. Peer in operating model — a small, grant-funded editorial team placing stories into partner newsrooms — even though its beat is investigations rather than green transition.

Broad incumbents

• The Conversation UK: Non-profit media outlet publishing editorially-independent articles written by academics and edited by journalists, then re-distributed by mainstream news partners. Comparable as a non-profit intermediary placing expert content into UK and global news ecosystems, only with academic rather than community voices.
• Eco-Age: Communications consultancy and media platform covering sustainability, climate action and ethical lifestyle. Comparable in that it produces climate-related editorial content distributed to media and consumer audiences, though it operates closer to a commercial agency model.
• Aldersgate Group: UK alliance of businesses, NGOs and policymakers advocating an environmentally sustainable economy. Comparable as a UK policy-and-communications intermediary turning climate evidence into messages for media and policymakers, though engaged in advocacy rather than journalism.

Regional players

• The Bristol Cable: Independent, member-funded cooperative covering Bristol and the West of England with community-led investigative journalism. Comparable as a UK community-rooted non-profit news outlet that depends on member or grant income and places stories of local significance.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/StoryExchange_
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/local-storytelling-exchange

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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