The site includes maps of the local area with pins to show upcoming meetings and by-elections, together with the facility to automatically receive emails about meetings organised by any part of the party. Users can enter their post-code to find the activities nearest to them.

Martin Tod, recent Parliamentary Candidate for North West Hampshire, was inspired to create the site after using the US site, meetup.com, during the General Election.

"We used meetup.com to publicise our branch meetings in Andover and two people walked in off the street and joined the party" noted Martin.

"meetup.com isn't really flexible enough to meet the party's needs, so we've created a new system designed to make it really easy for people to find us and get involved."

In an email to party members, Chief Executive of the Liberal Democrats, Chris Rennard, encouraged members to use the site. "It is an important new development for the party - and I'm very grateful to the team of volunteers who are working on it. What will make it succeed or fail in the end is whether or not people make use of the site to find out about events and to advertise events."

The site can be found at http://www.flocktogether.org.uk/