Create and manage rings

Rings are the groups inside your organization, and they're where events actually live. You need at least one.

From your organization, choose Manage Rings, then New Ring.

The form

Name — required. What this slice of your community is called: Weekend Walks, Thursday Evenings, Trail Maintenance.

Location — search for a city or address. Useful when rings meet in different places.

Description — optional, but it's how someone chooses between your rings. "Gentle 5km loops, dogs welcome, back by noon" tells people more than Weekend Walks alone.

Join policy — Open or Approval required.

You can also upload a logo. If it fails you'll see "Ring created, but the logo could not be uploaded. You can re-upload it later" — the ring is fine, just add the image again.

Private rings

Private groups are hidden from search and discovery — only members and people you invite can find and view them.

Use it for anything that shouldn't be found by strangers — a committee, a support group, a members-only trip. People get in by invite link, which works even when the ring is private.

How many rings?

Start with one and split when there's a reason.

The reason is usually notifications. When you publish an event, the ring's members hear about it. If half of them never come to that kind of thing, they learn to ignore you — and then they miss the one they'd have loved.

Split when two groups of people want genuinely different things. Don't split by topic for its own sake; three rings with four members each are harder to run and feel emptier than one ring with twelve.

What a ring page holds

Three tabs: Gathrings, Albums and Members.

Organizers also get Manage Ring — edit details, manage members — and Create Event, which offers a new event or any saved draft.

If donations are on, the ring page can carry its own Support this ring section.

Deleting a ring

Are you sure you want to delete "[name]"? This action cannot be undone.

Take that at face value. Think about where the ring's events and albums go before confirming.

If a ring has simply run its course, consider leaving it in place rather than deleting it. Past events are a record of what your community has done, and that record is often the most persuasive thing a prospective member reads.