Three steps, and they are the three columns on the board. The point of all of it is that nobody organises on faith and nobody is left paying for a room half of us didn’t turn up to.
Ballet. A fossil hunt. Board games for the older kids. You don't need a date, a venue or a price to start. Put it up and see if anyone else wants it.
One tap, and you can take your name off any time. Interest closes after 7 days: if enough families want it, it goes out for places. If not, it quietly drops off the board and nobody has spent anything.
This is the part that makes it real. Saying you'd come doesn't pay the instructor, so a place costs money and it's yours once you've taken it. Pull out freely until commitments close. After that the organiser has already paid, so your place is yours to use or hand to another family.
Whoever leads a thing ticks off who was there afterwards. Nobody is ever named as a no-show; it only ever comes out as a number. Here is the shape of it.
These are made up. Nobody has led a thing and marked the register yet, so what you are looking at is 4 worked examples showing the shape of the answer, not the answer. The moment a real one gets marked, these become our own numbers and the invented ones come out.
Ballet, clay, survival skills. A real start and finish. These usually have a teacher to pay, which is exactly why they need a firm number before anyone books.
A trip, a workshop, a morning at the library. Some are free, some aren't. Same rule either way: it runs when enough of us are in.
Beach tomorrow. Park this afternoon. Decided yesterday, happening now. No minimum, no cost, nothing to book. Turn the alert on for these or you'll hear too late.
Before commitments close, tell us and you get your money back, no questions. After they close, the organiser has already paid the instructor out of that money, so it can’t come back without them personally covering it. Your place is still yours though, and you can give it to another family.
It works the way a ticket works, and for the same reason.
No. Coming and running are two separate taps and most people only ever use the first one. If you do want to help, say so on the thing itself and whoever’s leading it will see.
Pay what you can, a month, per family, not per child: $2 reduced rate, $5 standard rate, $10 support rate. It is not for profit and it pays nobody a wage: it covers the texts, the emails and the cost of running this, and nothing else. Activities are priced separately and there are always free things on the board.
Cost is never the reason a family misses out. Say the word to whoever’s leading it and it’s sorted, no explanation needed.
Any London-area family educating at home, whatever your approach.
What we run is secular. No prayer, no worship and no faith-based teaching in any activity on the board.
Who we are is mixed. Some families here are religious and some aren’t, and nobody is asked which. You do not have to be non-religious to belong here.
Being kind, welcoming and safe for everyone is the only real requirement.
You choose. Show your name, your photo and your kids’ ages so people know who they’d be meeting, or be counted without being named. Either way you count toward the number.
Set that up