Help Me Investigate is a platform for you to organise and pursue questions of public interest you think should be investigated.

The question might be very simple or more complicated – anything from why your local doctor now has an 0845 number – to What street has the most parking tickets issued.

The site helps you build a team to investigate that – and that team will suggest ‘challenges’ to pursue in getting answers.

Sometimes we will build tools that make getting those answers easier.

This is not a discussion forum, or a news website – although you might have discussions or link to stories elsewhere. It is a community of curious people, and a set of tools to help those people find each other, and get answers.

The site is in its very earliest stages, so it will look a little ugly and work a little clunkily for a while as we see how people use it and how to make it better. The more you use it, the better it will get – and please use the Feedback service to submit bugs and ideas for improvement (or better still, just send an email to paul(at)helpmeinvestigate(dot)com).

Take a look at the questions already being asked on the site to get some ideas – or better still, join an investigation to see how it works.

The site was initially funded by Screen West Midlands and 4iP.

Help Me Investigate’s offices are:

Unit 21 Fazeley Studios

191 Fazeley Street

Birmingham

B5 5SE