About

Group Squirrel is a place to run a real-world community: one home for your group, your events and your members. You create a group, add events, and people find you, join, and engage in the group.

Everything an organiser needs - member lists, approvals, emails, notifications, payments - is built in, so you're not stitching together a chat app, a spreadsheet and a payment link. Get people into a room together.

No. Create a group, tell us roughly where it meets and what it's about, and you have a working group page immediately. Sensible defaults do the rest: events are visible to your members, member profiles are visible to each other, and people get notified when a new event goes up. Everything below is optional - you turn things on when you need them, not before.

Your group is listed in search, where people browse by location - a distance radius from wherever they are - and by topic. When someone joins, you decide what happens next: let them straight in, or review each request first and approve them yourself. You can also ask joining questions of your own ("How did you hear about us?", "Do you have your own equipment?"), so you know who's arriving before they turn up. Existing members can invite people directly.

Post an event with a date, time and venue, and members can respond. If your venue only holds twenty people, cap it - extra sign-ups go on a waitlist and the next person is promoted automatically when someone drops out, with a notification, so you're not policing a list by hand. You can invite specific members, name co-hosts, tag the event by topic, let members comment on it (or switch comments off), and set a reminder email to go out on a schedule you choose. Times are handled in the venue's timezone, so nobody misreads a start time.

This is yours to set, feature by feature. Your events, your members list, your venues and even who's replied can each be public, visible to all members, or visible only to active members. So you can run an open, discoverable group that anyone can browse — or a private one where the address of the venue is only shown to people who've actually joined. Most platforms give you one privacy switch for the whole group; here it's four separate decisions, because "anyone can see our events" and "anyone can see our members" are not the same question.

Yes, both, and the money is yours. Payments go directly to you rather than sitting with us. You can offer paid memberships - one-off or recurring, in your own currency, with a free trial period and automatic reminders before a membership expires - and you can sell tickets to individual events, with a deposit option if you take a booking fee up front. Members manage their own renewals; you see the payment history against each member.

Yes. Add co-organisers and give each one only what they need - someone can manage events without being able to email the whole membership or see payment records. Members can start a private conversation with the organisers, and contact messages from non-members land in one place, so group admin doesn't end up scattered across your personal inbox. On presentation: your own colours and theme, your own group picture, your own FAQ, extra pages for whatever your group needs (a code of conduct, a kit list, directions), and the standard wording on the site edited to sound like you.

Moving shouldn't mean starting over. The group and event structure will be familiar, so there's nothing to relearn, and you can bulk-import your existing member list from a spreadsheet rather than asking hundreds of people to sign up again from scratch - then email them all from inside the platform to tell them where you've gone. Pricing is by subscription tier, with limits on how many groups and members a tier covers, and there's a free tier to start on.