It takes a village.
Find yours.
Village helps you discover brilliant things to do with your kids across London, host get-togethers without the group-chat chaos, and turn the parents around you into the support network every family deserves.
Why Village exists
Raising kids was never meant to be done alone.
For most of human history, parents had a village — grandparents up the road, neighbours who knew your kids' names, a dozen hands to hold the baby. Today, many of us are raising children miles from family, buried in group chats, googling “things to do with a toddler” on a rainy Sunday.
Village is our attempt to rebuild what modern life scattered: the families around you, the places your kids will love, and the kind of local friendship that makes parenting lighter.
Not another social network. A tool for real life — offline, outside, together.
Explore
London, through your kids' eyes
Playgrounds, city farms, soft play, museums, splash pads, storytimes — mapped across London and searchable by your child's age. Whether it's a rainy Tuesday or the first sunny Saturday of spring, open the map and something brilliant is nearby.
- Filter by age, so everything you see actually suits your kids
- The practical details parents need: buggy access, cafés, changing facilities
- Tips and ratings from parents who've been there with their own kids
Host & RSVP
Plan it once. Village does the chasing.
A picnic, a birthday, a Sunday at the farm — create it in seconds and invite the right people. Village tracks RSVPs, sends everyone a reminder the day before, and gives you one place to share the photos afterwards. No spreadsheet, no forty-message thread.
- Guests without the app RSVP straight from a web link
- Automatic reminders — no more "is this still on?" texts
- Share photos and videos with the people who were actually there
Circles
A private circle for every corner of their world
Your kids don't have one social life — they have many. The school class, the swim squad, the NCT group. Each circle gets its own private chat, events, and photos, so the right conversations always reach the right people. Nothing is public. Ever.
- Invite-only — you decide exactly who's in each circle
- A chat message becomes a plan becomes an event, in two taps
- No cross-group noise, no accidental shares
Getting started
Villages start small. So does this.
Tell us about your family
Your kids' ages and what they're into — so the map is theirs from day one.
Explore your neighbourhood
Browse what's nearby, save favourites, and find your new regular spots.
Start saying yes
Join circles, host something small, RSVP to something new. That's how villages start.
Starting where we live.
We'd rather get one city right than fifty cities wrong. Explore launches with London — its parks, farms, museums and play spaces, checked by us and rated by parents. Circles and events work wherever you are, and the map will grow as the village does.
Our promises
The small print, in big letters
Village is being built as a public good for families, not an engagement machine. These aren't features — they're the rules we build by.
Free for families
Finding your people shouldn't cost money. Village is free to download and free to use — no subscription, no paywall on the things that matter.
No ads. Ever.
You're a parent, not a product. There are no ads in Village and there never will be. Nobody is bidding for your family's attention here.
Your data is not for sale
We don't sell data, we don't share it with advertisers, and we collect as little as we can get away with. Your information exists to make the app work — nothing else.
Kids' details stay private
Nothing about your children is ever public. Circles are invite-only, events are private to their guests, and you control every share.
— the Village team, London
Fair questions
Asked and answered, honestly
Is Village really free?
Yes. Free to download, free to use — no subscription, no ads, no credit card. We're building Village because we needed it ourselves, and a village you have to pay to enter isn't a village.
I'm not in London — is it still useful?
Partly, honestly. The Explore map launches with London, so venue discovery is London-first for now. Circles, events, RSVPs and messaging work wherever you are. We'll grow the map as the village grows.
Do my friends need the app to come to my events?
No. Every event has an invite link that opens in any browser — grandparents and app-averse friends can see the details and RSVP without installing anything.
What happens to my family's data?
It stays yours. Your data lives on servers in the EU, is never sold or shared with advertisers, and anything about your kids is visible only to the circles you choose. The plain-English version is on our privacy page.
Which phones does it work on?
Village is built for both iPhone and Android.
Your village is closer than you think.
The families, the places, the Saturdays worth remembering — they're already out there. Village just helps you find each other.
Free for families · London first · No ads, ever