200 freshers' fair sign-ups. Zero spreadsheets.
Inner CIRQL gives your committee one place for announcements, RSVPs, membership, and handover, so you can spend freshers' week growing your society, not managing spreadsheets. Your socials show up on the same map everyone else in the city is browsing.
Or drop us a line at info@cirql.uk
Sound familiar?
Every September, the new committee inherits a muted WhatsApp group, a half-finished spreadsheet of members, and zero idea who actually came to events last year.
You collect sign-ups on paper at freshers' fair, manually add everyone to a group chat, then spend the rest of term posting the same event three times because nobody saw it. Headcounts are guesses. Membership dues, if you collect them, live in someone's personal bank account. And when it's time to hand over to the next committee, you're handing over a mess.
We built Inner CIRQL because university societies were our first community, and every committee we spoke to had the same problems.
See it in 60 seconds
Sign-ups, socials, and handover, the way a committee actually runs it.
Built for how societies actually run.
Group chats, tamed
- Smart mute keeps day-to-day chatter quiet while announcements and RSVPs still land. Nobody has to mute the whole group to escape the noise.
- One tap to catch up on what you missed, instead of scrolling through hundreds of messages.
Announcement board
- Post once, every member sees it. No more repeating yourself across three group chats and a Facebook page nobody checks.
Membership & sign-ups
- One QR code at freshers' fair. Everyone who scans it is in. No paper sheets, no manually adding 200 people to a WhatsApp group.
- See your full member list any time. Export it when the SU asks for numbers.
- When the committee hands over, everything carries forward. The next president doesn't start from zero.
Events & RSVP
- Create your socials, trips, and weekly sessions in one place. One-tap RSVP means you know the headcount before you book the venue, not after.
Society analytics
- Track attendance, see who's active, spot who's new. When it's time for SU re-registration or funding applications, the numbers are already there.
Live map
- Every event pins to a real-time map.
- Your event shows up to people browsing nearby.
- Filter by vibe, distance, or what's on tonight.
The vibe check
- Live video shows the energy before you show up.
- Lowers the barrier for first-timers.
- See the room, not just a flyer.
£0
Free for university societies. No catch. No SU budget required. No committee vote on spending. Just set up your society and start using it.
See everything included →Why not just use what you've already got?
WhatsApp keeps the chat alive. Eventbrite gets you found. Circle handles membership. Each one does a piece of this. CIRQL is the only one that blends community management and discovery into one place, instead of making you stitch three tools together.
| Feature | Eventbrite | Circle | CIRQL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community management | ||||
| Group chat & messaging | · | |||
| Announcements everyone actually sees | Basic | · | ||
| Membership & recurring payments | · | Basic | ||
| Smart mute: noise down, still see what matters | Basic | · | · | |
| Member & revenue analytics | · | Basic | ||
| Discovery | ||||
| Event listings people can search | · | · | ||
| Live map: how close, what's on tonight | · | · | · | |
| Live video: see the room before you go | · | · | · | |
“Basic” means the tool does a thin version of it. WhatsApp's broadcast lists are capped and easy to miss, Eventbrite's payments are per-ticket, not membership.
Free for university societies. Always.
Questions
University societies are how we started. You're the communities we built this for. Free means no SU budget approvals, no committee votes on spending. Just sign up and use it.
Admin access transfers to the new committee. All your event history, member data, and announcements carry over. The next president doesn't start from a blank WhatsApp group.
Yes. Most societies run both while members migrate. You don't have to kill the group chat overnight.
Joining is one QR code or one link. No account wall before they see what's on. They'll need the app for RSVPs and notifications, but browsing is instant.
That's one of the best use cases. One QR code at your stall, everyone who scans it is in your society. No paper sign-up sheets, no manually adding people to a group chat after.
Yes. Export your member list and event attendance whenever you need it. No more scrambling to pull numbers together at the end of term.
No. It's built around real-world meetups, not feeds and forums. Your socials, trips, and weekly sessions are the centre of it, not an afterthought pinned somewhere.
Set up your society in five minutes.
Free. No SU approval needed. Have it ready before freshers' week.
Questions? Reach us at info@cirql.uk