Find the right local service
Choose the service that best fits the job
Each Southport trade page covers a broad list of related services, so you can quickly see whether the category matches what you need before submitting anything.
How Southport Trades works
Describe the job once. Let local businesses decide if they can help.
Southport Trades is designed to remove some of the ringing around. You can still contact any listed business directly, but the shared enquiry form gives you another route: tell us what you need once and send the same requirement to the participating businesses in that category.
One clear enquiry
Give the businesses enough information to respond
Your name, email, phone and postcode are required. Add a clear summary and useful detail about the work, urgency and access so businesses can judge whether the enquiry suits them.
Participating businesses are alerted quickly
The enquiry is sent by email. Businesses that opt in also receive a WhatsApp alert, making the opportunity visible even while they are away from the office.
Direct contact
You deal with the businesses directly
Businesses choose whether to respond. You decide who to speak to, which quotes to obtain and whether to appoint anyone. Southport Trades does not take payment for the work.
Direct contact
No bidding platform between you and the business.
Once the enquiry has been delivered, any conversation is directly between you and the participating business. Southport Trades does not add a commission to the job and does not decide who you should appoint.
Your details
Contact information is not posted publicly.
The details supplied in the enquiry form are shared only with the participating businesses in the relevant category. Lead records are also automatically deleted after the configured retention period.
WhatsApp matters here
A lead can reach a tradesperson while they are actually out working.
Email remains part of every lead delivery. WhatsApp is the optional instant alert layer for participating businesses, with a secure link back to the full enquiry rather than exposing all customer details in the notification itself.
FREE for customers. No bidding platform. No Southport Trades commission added to the job.
Southport Trades provides the introduction. The customer and business agree the work directly.
Can't see the service you need?
Tell us what is missing.
We are starting with ten categories and can use requests from local customers to decide what should be added next.