A Furls Product
Near Here.
The local events the big sites miss. Pub quizzes, craft workshops, village fetes, community meetups. The good stuff that's actually near you.
Visit nearhere.eventsThe problem
Your local events are hiding in plain sight.
There's a pub quiz three streets away, a craft fair this weekend, and a free comedy night at the community centre. You'd love to go. You just don't know they exist.
The big event sites focus on arenas and stadiums. Parish councils post to Facebook groups. Libraries update their own websites. Pubs stick a poster in the window. Near Here brings all of that together in one place, so you can stop Googling and start going.
What it does
Event discovery, minus the faff.
Actually local
Events within your real neighbourhood. Not "near you" in the way that a venue 40 miles away is "near you."
The ones you'd miss
Parish councils, community centres, libraries, pubs, village halls. The events that don't have a marketing budget but are absolutely worth your Saturday.
18+ categories
Arts, family, food, wellness, theatre, community. Filter by what you're into, not what an algorithm thinks you should see.
One-tap calendar
Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook. Found something good? It's in your diary in one tap.
See it working
Start somewhere useful.
Near Here covers towns across the UK and organises events by the things people actually want to do. Pick a place, pick a category, and see what's happening.
Why we built it
Because we wanted to use it ourselves.
Near Here exists because finding local events shouldn't require joining six Facebook groups and checking twelve different websites. That felt like a problem worth solving, so we solved it.
It aggregates listings from the sources that matter locally and makes them searchable, browsable, and actually useful. No account needed. No spam. Just events, near here.
Under the bonnet
A UK events platform, running on Cloudflare.
Near Here is also a working example of the product engineering Furls does every day. It combines Cloudflare Workers, aggressive edge caching, Hyperdrive, and a regional PostgreSQL database to serve a very large, frequently changing catalogue without making people wait for it.
The full architecture is in How Near Here runs on Cloudflare. For the deeper database mechanics, Cloudflare's own article on how Hyperdrive speeds up database access is well worth the detour.
Out in the wild
Near Here is in the AWS Startups Showcase.
AWS curate a directory of small teams shipping useful things on their stack. We made the cut. Worth a look if you want a quick read on what the project is and where it's going.