At a glance
- Problem: ASPIRE wanted a provider-led national directory on their own website, where providers register programs and the public can search them. Their existing site tools couldn't deliver that. Staff were also copying listings in by hand from a Microsoft Form.
- What I did: Built a custom location search system into their existing Wix site, so programs can be found by address or area, not only by pins placed by hand. Added provider registration and a staff approval step.
- What changed: Providers submit their own programs. Staff approve what goes live. Visitors search by place and see what is nearby. ASPIRE kept the website and the tools their team already knew.
- When: Delivered November 2025. The brief was to stay on Wix. A full website rebuild wasn't the goal.
The website can be edited by the site manager through the Wix Editor, so content, layout and directory elements may have changed since handover. This entry describes the work as it was originally delivered.
The problem
ASPIRE wanted a national directory of social prescribing programs: exercise groups, social clubs, and wellbeing activities that GPs and health workers refer people to. Their aim was to be among the first organisations with a platform where providers register programs and the public can search that directory on ASPIRE's own site.
Their public website already ran on Wix. The team liked Wix because staff could edit pages without specialised technical skills. The problem was that Wix's built-in tools stopped short of what they needed. Maps were limited to pins placed by hand. There was no ready-made way to turn a visitor's search into a live set of nearby programs, and no built-in path for providers to register listings that staff could then approve.
Until that existed, keeping the directory current meant providers sent details through a Microsoft Form, and staff typed the same information into the website. Every update was a second round of work.
The approach
The rest of the site already worked for ASPIRE. Replacing it would have meant a new platform for a problem that sat in one part of the site.
I kept Wix as the home for the directory and built the missing capability into it: a custom location system that understands where a visitor is searching from, finds programs in that area, and plots them on the map. Alongside that, providers can submit programs on the site, and staff review what goes public. Listings still live in the same content tools the team already used to edit the website.
How it worked
The centrepiece was a location search system built for this site, not a stock map with a few extra pins. It turns places people actually type, such as an address, suburb, postcode, state, or local council area, into a search the directory can use. Visitors can set how far they're willing to travel. Programs appear on the map based on the area each one serves.
Around that:
- Provider registration. Providers enter program details on the website instead of sending them for someone else to type.
- Staff approval. A manager can review, edit, approve, or reject a submission before it appears on the public map.
- Same website, same editors. Day-to-day listing work stays in Wix, so the team didn't need a second system to publish a program.
The outcome
ASPIRE got a directory on their own website where providers can register programs, staff control what is published, and visitors can search by location on a map that responds to the search, not only to pins placed by hand.
Staff no longer copy every listing from a Microsoft Form into the site. Providers submit; staff approve; the public directory updates from that review. The organisation kept Wix for everything else.
No usage study was run, so I'm not quoting visitor numbers or how many listings were added.
Need this on a site you already have?
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