Circles
Find your Circle.
A Circle is a community inside RippleCore — a place you already belong to, with the good that happens in it written down. Here is what that looks like where you are.
- UniversitiesHalls, societies, course groups. Somewhere the kind things students do for each other finally gets noticed.
- SchoolsA safeguarded Circle: not listed anywhere, so only the people it was made for come across it.
- BusinessesVolunteer days, fundraisers, the colleague who covered your shift. A Circle for the good that happens at work.
- Towns and communitiesNeighbours, residents' groups, the whole high street. Kindness with a postcode.
- Clubs and groupsSports clubs, choirs, scout groups, parkruns. Club spirit beyond the fixture list.
Who it is for
Every Circle is somewhere people already are.
The kind of Circle changes the tone of it — a university runs like a group chat, a school like a noticeboard with a gate on it. Pick the one that sounds like yours.
Universities
RippleCore for universities: a Circle for the place you already belong to, where the good you do for each other is on the record.
RippleCore for universitiesSchools
RippleCore for schools: a Circle that is not listed publicly, with a way in that an adult decides.
RippleCore for schoolsBusinesses
RippleCore for workplaces: one Circle for the team, and somewhere the volunteer day still exists in March.
RippleCore for businessesTowns and communities
RippleCore for a town: one Circle for the place you live, where the good happening down your road is finally visible.
RippleCore for towns and communitiesClubs and groups
RippleCore for clubs: everything that makes a club a club, which mostly happens off the pitch.
RippleCore for clubs and groups
Getting in
Open, or by invitation.
However a Circle is set up, you still need a code or a link to it — RippleCore has no sign-up page for Circles in general.
Open
Somebody shares the code, you tap once and you are in. This is what most clubs and student societies choose.
Approval
Your application goes to an officer of that Circle, who may ask a question or two first. You can see that it is waiting rather than wondering. Codes can also be withdrawn, or expire on a date.
Being found
Listed, or not listed at all.
A Circle is either community or safeguarded, and that decides whether strangers can come across it — a separate decision from how you join it.
Community
The Circle is listed publicly, so anyone can find it, signed out included. Towns and most workplaces are community Circles.
Safeguarded
The Circle is not listed, so people who are not members will not come across it. Schools and other Circles with young people in them choose this.
Nothing inside is readable without an account either way, and the events and the member list are readable by the Circle's own members and by nobody else. So are the posts, unless a member who is 18 or over chooses to share a moment of their own with all RippleCore members. A community Circle's admin can switch that off, and a safeguarded Circle never allows it.
Looking for a Circle that already exists?
The Circles themselves live in the app, where their names and goals are the current ones.