Circles

RippleCore for businesses

RippleCore for workplaces: one Circle for the team, and somewhere the volunteer day still exists in March.

More good happens at work than anyone writes down: the shift somebody covered, the collection for a colleague’s family, the two days a year the whole team spends at the food bank.

A Circle is where that stops being an anecdote. One Circle for the company, or one per site or per team — it holds the things people did, and it keeps doing it after the novelty has worn off.

What lands in it

  • Moments — a photo and a sentence about what somebody did, with the people who were there on it.
  • Volunteering — open opportunities with a date, a place and a sign-up, and a register of who came. This is the part that survives the volunteer day.
  • Challenges — a goal for the whole team: a million steps, a month without single-use cups.
  • Events — the socials and the fundraisers, with an RSVP.
  • Badges — read off what members have done, never awarded.

Getting in

A workplace Circle is usually community — listed, so a new starter finds it alongside the payroll portal — and joined with a code from whoever runs it. It can also be unlisted, which is what a team that would rather not be browsable tends to choose.

Either way, joining can be opened up or set to approve: with approval, an application is answered by an officer of the Circle. And nothing inside a Circle is read by anyone who is not in it, whichever way it was set up.

Other kinds of Circle

  • Universities

    Halls, societies, course groups. Somewhere the kind things students do for each other finally gets noticed.

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  • Schools

    A safeguarded Circle: not listed anywhere, so only the people it was made for come across it.

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  • Towns and communities

    Neighbours, residents' groups, the whole high street. Kindness with a postcode.

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  • Clubs and groups

    Sports clubs, choirs, scout groups, parkruns. Club spirit beyond the fixture list.

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