Help Out Hub
About
A volunteer signup sheet for schools, built so that volunteering takes thirty seconds and organizing takes an evening a term.
Beta Early access
New groups are added by invitation while we work with a small number of schools. If yours isn't set up yet, you'll need an invitation from whoever runs it.
Already volunteering somewhere? You don't need this page. Use the signup link your group sent you.
For volunteers
- No account and no password. You sign up with your name and email, and that's the whole process.
- You get a private link for changing or cancelling your signup. Keep it to yourself, because anyone you forward it to could change it too.
- Reminders arrive automatically ahead of your shift, each with one tap to confirm or cancel.
- Other families see your first name and last initial (“Sara K.”). Your email address and phone number are visible only to your group's organizers.
Your group's own pages have a fuller guide, linked from its volunteer page.
For group organizers
- Events hold shifts. “Hot Lunch” is an event; each Monday morning is a shift with its own date, time and number of helpers.
- Weekly events repeat with one setting. Set “repeat weekly until”, then untick the school holidays before saving.
- One link per event goes in your newsletter. It's long and unguessable, and hidden from search engines, but it isn't a password. Add an invite code if you want a second gate.
- Changes email the people affected. Editing a time or deleting a shift offers to tell everyone signed up, and says how many that is.
- Rosters print. A page per shift with names and phone numbers, ready for the door, plus a spreadsheet export.
Privacy
- Volunteer contact details are visible to that group's organizers, never to other families and never to another group.
- There are no ads and no trackers, and volunteer details are never sold or shared.
- Every export of contact details is recorded in the group's own activity log, so it's always clear who looked at what.
- Signup pages ask search engines not to index them.