For institutions
Evidence of social change — not anecdotes.
A university, a school, a charity, a business or a town can run a Circle. This is the one page on this site for the people who run one, and it describes the tools rather than a picture of them.
The number that is why this exists
Not “we logged a thousand acts.” Those acts were followed by others.
Every moment inspired by another keeps a link back to it — one column, `inspired_by`, walked by the chain of what inspired what. Which means a Circle can count two different things: what its members did, and what their doing it set off.
The second number is the one nothing else produces. It is also the reason the first number alone is not evidence: a raw count cannot distinguish a programme that inspired people from one that merely recorded them.
We are not going to put a value on it here. The Circles that exist have real numbers and they are in the app; a figure printed on this page would be a figure from nowhere.
The console
What running a Circle actually involves.
Officers work in a console beside the member app — the same Circle, seen from the desk that runs it. Its desks are the list below; every one of them exists in this build rather than in a plan.
A participation report
Over a date range, by event, by member and by challenge — and exportable as a file, like every desk that lists rows.
The roster, the applications and the invites
Who is in the Circle and in what role, who has asked to join, and the invite links that let people in without asking.
Announcements and posts
A pinned notice for the Circle, and the moderation tools for the posts in it — including taking one down.
Events with a register
What is coming up, who RSVPed, and the register taken on the day.
Volunteering and challenges
Opportunities for members to turn up to, and time-boxed challenges with a target the whole Circle can see.
Flags
Something reported by a member lands on the officers’ own desk, with the post and the reason, and an officer decides what happens to it.
Rewards and vouchers
What members can claim, and the codes issued for it.
Partners and funding
The local names backing the Circle, what each is funding, and the contact for the partnership — as rows, so the page that shows them is the live one.
Settings, including findability
Whether the Circle is listed publicly or not listed at all. That choice is the Circle’s own, and it is separate from who may join.
By omission
Three pages the reference had, and why this site does not.
- There is no partner directory on this site, because a partner is a row — the ones that exist are in the app, and so is the Circle they back.
- There is no rewards catalogue or impact report here either, for the same reason: both are counts over rows, and a count copied onto a page is out of date before the page is deployed.
- There is no dashboard screenshot. The console is a real twelve-screen tool in this repo, and a drawing of it with invented figures would be the one thing on this site nobody could check.
A partner is told what it is and is not given: counts over its own cards, and never a member’s profile or contact details. That is written down where it belongs, in the terms.
Bring it to your community.
Tell us who you are and roughly how many people it would cover, and we will answer with what a Circle would look like — no commitment, no pressure.
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