Everything your Parent Carer Forum needs to run well
Bring meetings, member feedback, grants, publishing and day-to-day admin into one shared workspace, with a free app for parent carers and a website for your updates.
One connected system for your whole forum
Run the forum, involve parent carers and keep the public informed, all from one place.
The Operations Hub
Give your whole team one place to manage the work.
Manage meetings, working groups, forms, finances, publishing and forum settings.
Forum Connect
A free app for parent carers, available on mobile and the web.
Members can answer forms, join consultations, register for events and read your updates.
Your forum website
A website with your forum's name, logo and colours.
Publish news, events and progress updates from the Operations Hub.
Hear what parent carers think
Forms
Ask your members questions and see the responses in one place.
Responses can be anonymous. You can export the results to a spreadsheet.
Consultations
Collect parent carer views in the app.
Each person chooses whether you may publish their response or contact them about it.
Events
Publish events and see who has registered.
Direct messages
Members can have private, one-to-one conversations in the app.
Keep meetings, actions and decisions together
Working groups
Give every working group a clear home for its meetings, files and decisions.
Actions and decisions
Give actions an owner and a due date.
Record what was agreed, who approved it and when.
Meetings and documents
Manage agendas, attendance and minutes in one calendar.
Add confidentiality labels to documents.
People and access
Approve new members and invite your team by email.
Choose what each role can see and do.
Stay on top of grants and spending
Grants
Track each grant separately, including its budget, deadlines and reporting requirements.
Expenses
Keep spending, receipts and approvals linked to the right grant.
You can require approval from a second person.
Forecasts and reports
See the expected position of each grant.
Close the financial year and export the figures to a spreadsheet.
Audit trail
Keep a record of financial changes for your treasurer, trustees and funders.
Keep members informed
Publishing
Publish with confidence: draft, review and approve updates before they go live.
Choose whether each update is for members or the public.
Progress updates
Show where a piece of work has reached and when the next update is due.
Evidence
Record what your forum did, what it produced and what changed.
Email updates
Members choose the topics they want to hear about.
Get the support and safeguards you need
Optional help with the admin
Turn the AI assistant on if your forum wants to use it.
It can draft actions from meeting notes, group summaries, member updates and grant reports. A person reviews every draft.
Data protection
Manage subject access requests, member data exports, erasure and retention schedules.
Local Offer search
Where available, families can search their council's Local Offer from the app.
Social media publishing
Coming soon
See what Forum could do for your forum
Explore the demo as a chair, representative or parent carer, or talk to us about setting up your own forum.