Freelance & self-employed

You are the forest school.

Three schools, a nursery and a Saturday group, and every one of them wants to see your DBS, your first aid, your insurance and your risk assessments before you set foot in their wood. You keep it all in a folder and email it out again and again. Keep it in one place instead, share it with a link, and get on with the actual job.

Your record, in one link

DBS, first aid, your Level 3, your insurance, your CPD. All on one professional record that you own. When a new client asks for your paperwork, send them a link instead of six attachments and an apology about the file size.

A shop window that finds you work

Turn on a public profile and you're findable by the schools, nurseries and parents looking for a leader near them, with your experience, your area and whether you're open to cover. It's free, and it's yours whether or not you ever pay us a penny.

The session, on the phone in your pocket

Register, ratio, the risk you took and why, the observations, the photos. Logged in the woods with no signal, uploaded when you're back in the car. The write-up is done by the time you're driving home, because you did it while it was happening.

Why it's different

Your paperwork belongs to you, not to your last client.

Most software in this world is bought by an organisation and lends you a login. Leave, and your record leaves with them. This is built the other way up: the free account is yours, and your compliance record, your qualifications and your CPD live on it and travel with you to every school, nursery and holiday club you ever work with. Join someone's team and they see what they need to see. Leave, and you still have everything. See your public profile and the directory.

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Your professional record

  • Enhanced DBS · on update serviceCurrent
  • Outdoor first aid · 16hrCurrent
  • Level 3 Forest School LeaderHeld
  • Public liability insuranceRenews Aug

One link. They see it, they book you, nobody emails a PDF.

The folder in your car boot, except it's always up to date.

Parents book you directly, and pay you directly

If you run your own groups as well as working for others, share one link. Families pick a session and book, with no account to create and no app to download, and the booking becomes a place on your register. Take payment through it, set a capacity, let the waitlist do the chasing. See bookings and registers.

The assessments you already wrote, ready to hand over

Your risk-benefit assessments are site-specific, which is exactly why a generic one off the internet is no use to anybody. Write yours properly, once, for the woods you actually work in, and stack them onto the sessions that need them. Publish one and it gets a link a school can open without logging in. If you want somewhere to start, the free templates are structured the way a trainer teaches it: hazard, who's at risk, the benefit, the controls.

Eight pounds a month, and only if you want the app

The practitioner account, the professional record and the public profile are free, permanently. If you want to run your own sessions on it, Solo is £8 a month with VAT included: unlimited children, unlimited woods, the whole app. Thirty days free first, and no card to start. See full pricing.

Freelance questions

The things leaders ask first.

I work for four different schools. Do I need four accounts?

No. One account, one professional record, and you join each team you work with. Their children and their sessions stay theirs and stay separate, but your DBS, first aid and qualifications are shared with all of them from the one place, so you update them once.

If I stop working for a school, do they keep my record?

They keep their own records of the sessions you ran, because those are theirs. Your professional record is yours and goes with you. Nobody can take your qualifications off your account.

Do I have to be listed publicly?

Not at all. The public profile is off until you switch it on, and you choose what's on it. Plenty of leaders keep the record private and just share the link when a client asks.

Is Solo really enough for one person?

Yes. Solo is the whole app for a leader working on their own: unlimited children, unlimited woods, bookings, observations, the lot. Team (£29 a month flat) is for when you start bringing other people in.

Your record, your profile, your work. Free.

The practitioner account costs nothing and always will. Add the app when you want to run sessions on it.