Digital Passport · Product in development · 1 November 2026
Digital Passport

A digital passport for your scheme

Give people one place to discover participating venues or activities, record what they have done and follow their progress. Give organisers a simpler way to manage participation.

How it worksDiscuss your scheme

For organisations running venue trails, community activities and participation programmes.

What is a digital passport?

A record of someone’s participation, held on their phone rather than in a paper booklet.

Each qualifying visit or activity adds to their progress. The organiser sets the rules, milestones and any rewards.

Digital Passport is in development. Each working service would be configured and supported for its scheme.

How it works

The same basic approach can support different schemes. What counts as participation and how it is confirmed depends on the activity.

Find something to do

Browse participating places or activities, with search and a map where useful.

Record participation

Collect a qualifying visit or activity using the method agreed for the scheme, such as a venue-controlled QR code.

See progress

Keep a clear record of completed activities and the next milestone.

Manage the scheme

Give authorised organisers the records and tools needed to answer questions and resolve corrections.

Try Digital Passport

Explore two anonymised demonstrations: places to discover, visits to record and progress to follow.

National pub chain

Explore fictional pubs, record a review and look back through your passport.

Open pub passport demo

Fictional venues and illustrative locations. Sample reviews and stamps stay in this browser. No real customer accounts.

Motorcycle charity

Find sample cafés, try collecting a stamp and see your passport grow.

Open motorcycle charity demo

Sample cafés and visits. Progress stays in this browser. No official entries or affiliation.

Both demonstrations use sample data. They do not create real customer accounts or official charity entries.

Who benefits?

A useful digital passport should help the people taking part, the venues involved and the team behind the scheme.

Participants

Find activities, understand the rules and see progress in one place. A working service would keep a recoverable digital record, avoiding lost paper passports.

Participating venues

Make venues easier to discover. Use information and promotions to encourage visits and create opportunities for purchases. Agree a simple process that staff can support during a busy shift.

Organisers

Reduce paper handling, handwritten data entry and routine checks. Clear participation records and status updates can reduce enquiries, administrative effort and associated costs.

Possible uses

The format can be adapted to different activities. These are applications to explore, rather than claims of existing customers or delivered services.

Pub, café and food trails

Help people discover participating venues, record visits and take part in a shared trail.

Charity and community events

Connect participation with a common cause, while reducing the work of recording and checking activity.

Tourism and heritage trails

Bring attractions, landmarks or cultural stops into one itinerary, with progress recorded along the way.

Local shopping campaigns

Introduce independent businesses and encourage people to visit participating shops through a town or area trail.

Festivals and open days

Help visitors find participating locations or sessions and record the parts of an event they explore.

Clubs and activity challenges

Record agreed activities or destinations and help members follow a challenge together.

What exists today

Development examples

Existing examples explore venue discovery, visit recording, reviews or sample stamps. The functionality differs between examples.

A working service

Each scheme needs agreed rules, recoverable accounts, reliable participation evidence, organiser access and operational support. These are part of defining and delivering the service.

Optional additions

Promotions, challenges and scheme reporting can be added where useful. Rewards and entry handling follow the scheme’s agreed rules.

The sample-stamp demonstration does not verify real purchases or register official draw entries.

Adapt it as your needs change

Tell us what you want to change. We can respond quickly and turn updates around without asking users to install a new app version. Once released, changes can reach users almost immediately through the browser.

Small content and settings changes can be inexpensive, with some included in agreed support. Larger features are agreed separately.

For charitable schemes, the funding arrangement should protect funds reaching good causes.

About Mike Hord

Read Mike’s LinkedIn profile

Mike Hord is developing Digital Passport. His background spans technology programme delivery and commercial leadership.

At OpticoreIT, he held Head of Delivery and Commercial Director roles, with responsibilities across delivery governance, sales and marketing. His LinkedIn profile also lists programme and portfolio roles at Qube Research & Technologies, Collinson Group and Betfair.

Background checked against Mike’s supplied profile on 29 October 2026. Previous employers do not endorse this product.

Discuss your scheme

What do you want people to take part in? What creates work for your organisers? Use those questions to shape a demonstration and decide whether a pilot would be useful.

Does the approach meet your needs? What would you change? Could we try a pilot?

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