Being a member of a community

Two ways in:

• Direct link — someone (a community admin) sends you an invite email or shares a URL like parishlarder.uk/c/your-village. Click through and tap "Accept" once signed in.
• Public directory — /communities lists every public community on the platform. Filter by kind, click into one to see its home page.

Each community shows its own logo, accent colour, member count and tagline so you can tell them apart at a glance. Private and invite-only communities don't appear in the directory — they're reachable only by direct link.

Invites arrive by email with the community's branding and a one-click "Accept your invite" button. Links last 14 days.

When you click through:

• Already signed-in with the invited email → membership row is created, you land on the community home.
• Signed-in with a different email → friendly nudge to sign back in with the right one.
• Not signed in → sign-in page, with your invited email pre-filled. Sign-in creates your Parish Larder account on the fly if you don't have one.

Up to 10 modules — whichever the community has switched on. Each surfaces from the subheader at the top of every community page:

• Town Crier — read the noticeboard. Members can post (announcements, jobs, lost-and-found).
• What's on — fixtures, markets, tastings, AGMs, club nights.
• Stories — match reports, fundraiser write-ups, the time the goat got into the village hall. Members can write.
• Stalls — the community shop / bar / kitchen. Buy merchandise, memberships, raffle tickets, ticketed events.
• Classifieds — buy, sell, give within the community. Listings only visible to members on private communities.
• Walks — curated local routes (parishes / villages).
• Time Bank — offer a skill, ask for help. Hours are the unit of value.
• Petitions — open campaigns to back. Sign with one click.
• Recipes — seasonal cookery from members.
• Members — the roster.

From /c/<slug>/notifications you choose which kinds of update you want via which channels. Rows are kinds (Town Crier / What's on / Stories / Petitions / Classifieds / Time Bank / Members). Columns are channels the community has enabled.

Default is fully subscribed — every kind via every available channel. Untick rows you don't care about, or tap the channel column to turn that channel off across all kinds.

For web push: tap "Enable browser push" once. Registration works across every Parish Larder community you belong to — register once, get pushes from all of them.

For mobile push: install the Parish Larder mobile app (iOS / Android) and sign in — pushes route to it automatically.

For email and SMS: already wired into your account from sign-up. SMS uses the mobile number on your profile.

"Mute everything from <community>" is one click at the bottom of the page if it ever gets too much.

Many people belong to two or three — their parish, their cricket club, the school PTA. They all show up at /account/communities, each card stamped with your role (admin, moderator, member) and a quick "Open" / "Manage" link.

Notifications stay separate — a Town Crier post in your parish doesn't look like a fixture announcement from your cricket club, even though both come from the same platform. Every notification carries the community's accent colour and name so context is instant.

Web push registration is shared — register your browser in one community and all your other communities can push to it too.

If you want a feature the platform doesn't yet have — a team-sheet builder, AGM voting, fixture-list improvements — flag it to your community admin. They can submit a feature request directly to our backlog from their admin dashboard.

For ordinary moderation issues — a member posted something inappropriate, a classifieds listing looks like a scam — use the report icon on the relevant content. Reports route to your community admin / moderator first; platform admins see them too as a fallback.