Everything Tumble does for your family

1. Choose Create a free account.
2. Enter your name, email, mobile, a password of at least 8 characters, your address and postcode. Your postcode is how Tumble finds what's near you.
3. Agree to the terms and privacy policy. Activity ideas and offers by email are optional, and off unless you tick them.

1. Add their name, date of birth and, if you like, their school and year group.
2. Fill in their profile once: allergies, medical conditions and medication, dietary and additional needs, emergency contacts, who may collect them, whether they may leave alone, and photo consent.
3. Photo consent and medical questions can be answered yes, no, or left unanswered. Tumble never assumes.
4. Set a collection password if you like. The provider sees it on the register only when they tap to check it.

Every provider you book on Tumble receives what they need from this profile, so you never fill in another registration form.

• Co-parent: shares the family's bookings, calendar and children.
• Carer, such as a grandparent or nanny: helps with the family's week, but can't see money, payments or referrals.
• Each child has their own colour on the calendar.
• Already have your own Tumble family? When you join another household you can merge the two, and the parents confirm any children who appear twice.

Message providers and people you're buying from, chat with your co-parent and carers about pick-ups, swapped days and shared costs, and see booking updates, all on one page.

• Turn on two-step sign-in with an authenticator app.
• Choose whether you get Tumble newsletters, emails from providers you've booked, and whether booked providers see your email address.
• Close your account at any time. Clear any balance and recurring payments first.

• Postcode and distance
• Child (age matched automatically), activity type and provider
• Day, time of day and dates
• Maximum price, or free only
• Places available, or bookable on Tumble
• SEND-friendly, and accepts Tax-Free Childcare or vouchers

Pick a date up to 90 days ahead, your area and how you'll travel (walk, bus or train, car), and Tumble builds a day out: activities, lunch and a playground, with the weather. Places that don't publish opening hours are labelled. It works anywhere, with the most places in London and the South East.

Listings show baby changing, toilets, parking, a café and other facilities where the venue or a trusted source says they're there. If nobody has said, Tumble leaves it blank rather than guessing.

Save anything with the heart, compare classes side by side, and add any listing to your calendar in one tap.

• Trial: a first session, free or paid. Afterwards, book the rest of the term in one tap.
• Term: a block of weekly sessions.
• Drop-in: a single session.
• Camp: holiday days, by the day or the week.
• Session pack: a bundle of sessions to use over time.
• Membership: monthly plans, with clubs that offer them.

Pay by card at Tumble's secure checkout. Tumble doesn't offer instalments, deposits or pay-later services such as Klarna.

Choose Pay with Tax-Free Childcare at checkout. Your place is held with a reference starting TFC. Pay the provider from your Childcare Service account within 5 days, or by 12 hours before the first session if that's sooner. The provider confirms when it arrives.

Book a free funded place with the code your council gave you.

Keep credit with Tumble, top it up, and buy or redeem gift cards. Any refund paid as credit lands here.

• Join the waiting list. When a place opens you're offered it by email, and it's held for you for 48 hours.
• Report an absence from your calendar or bookings, with a reason. Reporting an absence doesn't trigger a refund.
• Where the provider allows, ask for a make-up session or move to another session yourself.

Cancel within 5 days of booking, and at least 14 days before the class starts, for a full refund. After that, the provider's own cancellation terms apply. Card refunds go back to your card.

• Re-book next term in one tap from Classes & camps > Next term.
• See every booking and receipt under Account > Payments, and download a yearly childcare statement for Tax-Free Childcare or employer claims.
• Get £10 credit when a friend you refer makes their first paid booking.

• Every Tumble booking, added automatically
• Activities and clubs booked elsewhere, added under Family
• School term dates, half terms and INSET days for each child
• School-week to-dos from your timetable, and dates the Family Assistant finds
• Anything you save, in one tap

Add each child's school and its term dates go on the calendar. It covers every school in England; elsewhere, choose your council or type the dates in. Children at different schools sit side by side.

For the next three school holidays, see which weekdays each child already has covered and which are free, with up to six camps within 15 km that fit, siblings together first.

Add PE days, swimming, library and other weekly things for each child. They repeat every school week until 31 August and skip the holidays.

See when the whole family is free.

Copy your private calendar link into Google, Apple or Outlook calendar: one link for everyone or one per child. It shows what, who, when and where, nothing more. Phone calendars refresh every few hours; Google can take up to a day.

Bring other calendars in, such as a work or club calendar, by pasting its link, and choose whose they are. Connect Google Calendar and anything you add in Tumble appears there straight away.

• Outdoor sessions show a heads-up on the day view when it looks wet, windy, very cold or very hot.
• Choose a daily or weekly email of what's coming up, including deadlines due within 3 days, and add up to five extra addresses, such as a grandparent's. It's off until you switch it on; the default time is 6pm.

• What's next: today, appointments, tasks, the week ahead, recent changes and upcoming trips on one page.
• Today, from the Family dashboard: a one-page plan of the family's day. Switch on the daily email under Family admin > Family notifications to get it by email too.

• Today, this week, by person, and clashes, including tight changeovers and journeys with nobody on them.
• Regular commitments that repeat every week, every few weeks or monthly, with who drops off and who picks up.
• Appointments, added from the calendar with + Appointment, with follow-up tasks.
• Import a calendar file (.ics) from another app.

• Shared or private to-dos and lists, with owners, due dates, repeats and checklists.
• Email reminders for anyone in the household.

• Documents & passports: keep passports, GHIC cards and other documents that expire, with a reminder before they do. Parents only, never carers.
• Birthdays: the family's birthdays on the calendar, with reminders.

• Kit lists (Family admin > Kit lists): one per activity, shown on the calendar and, if you choose, in your evening email.
• Activity spend (Account > Activity spend): what you've spent on activities this year, and how much Tax-Free Childcare could have saved you.

1. Forward a school email to [email protected] from the address you signed up with, use your private address on the Assistant page, or upload a letter.
2. Tumble puts what it finds in your review tray: trips, non-uniform days, deadlines, things to bring.
3. Tap Add on what you want. It goes on the family calendar.

Tumble doesn't keep the email itself. Each suggestion keeps a short quote, 300 characters at most, so you can see where it came from.

Tumble reminds you of school application deadlines worked out from your child's date of birth (England), and of dates you enter, such as Tax-Free Childcare reconfirmation and passport renewals.

Free accounts get 40 emails read a month, up to 10 a day. Gmail inbox connection isn't available; forwarding from Gmail works.

Choose up to 3 towns whose centre is within 3 miles of your postcode. If none is that close, Tumble offers the nearest 3 within 10 miles. Groups cover England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Posts are for members only. You can post up to 5 times and reply up to 30 times an hour.

List preloved children's items for sale, free or to lend, and message sellers inside Tumble. Payment is between you and the seller. Car seats, recalled items, medicines, cosmetics, breast pumps, food and formula, weapons and animals can't be listed.

Find local parent WhatsApp groups that members have added. Tumble never joins or reads WhatsApp groups. To share an event from your group, post it on Tumble and tag the group.

Report anything that breaks the guidelines. Items reported by 3 members are hidden while Tumble checks them, and child-safety reports go to Tumble straight away. You can block any member.

• Record your reply: yes, no or maybe. Tumble reminds you 2 days before the reply-by date.
• Track the present, or give a class or camp instead. A reminder comes 5 days before.
• The party goes on your calendar, with a thank-you reminder 2 days after.

• Up to 60 guests, who reply yes, no or maybe on a simple page, without a Tumble account.
• See who's coming, who might, how many adults to expect, and who hasn't replied.
• Dietary notes are deleted 30 days after the party.

Save a friend's first name and birthday (the day only) for a reminder beforehand.

Age-matched present ideas on invites and reminders. Tumble may earn a commission if you buy through these links.

• Forward flight, hotel and car-hire confirmations to [email protected] from your sign-in address, the same address as everything else. Tumble spots travel bookings and builds the trip, shared with your household.
• Tick who's going, and the trip shows in their colour on the family calendar.
• Keep documents and notes on each trip. Attachments from the emails you forward are filed onto the trip.
• Moving from TripIt? Upload your TripIt calendar files, up to 50 at once, or add your TripIt feed link.
• See trips by month, on the family calendar, or on your phone. Booking references never go into calendar links.

• Plan a holiday with other families: invite them, and give each person owner, editor or viewer access.
• Suggest places and vote, run polls, comment, share photos and split shared costs.
• Share a guide to the trip with anyone you choose.

• Homework for each child, with what's due first, and projects with their own steps and files
• School events, such as plays, sports days and parents' evenings
• School payments: school and PTA payments you made on Tumble, with receipts
• School year dates: the key dates of each child's school year

• Search nurseries and schools in England, with their Ofsted reports
• Shortlist and compare, and track visits, open days and applications
• Key dates and milestones for your child's year of entry, including 11+ test timelines where there are grammar schools
• Plain guides to each stage

• A guide to home educating in the UK
• Learning resources from BBC Bitesize, Oak National Academy and other UK sources, by age, nation and subject
• Make an activity with AI: describe what you want and Tumble writes an activity for your child. It stays private to your family.

When a provider uses them, you'll also see Tutoring sessions, Teams & fixtures (with availability and lifts) and progress Reports under Classes & camps.

• Name and age, never date of birth
• Allergies, medical conditions, medication and dietary needs
• Additional needs
• Emergency contacts and who may collect
• Whether they may leave on their own, and photo consent

• School and year group, GP and home address
• Brothers and sisters who don't go to them
• Bookings, progress and payments with other providers

• Search, saving and booking, with no booking fee
• Family calendar, term dates, holiday planner, timetable, kit lists and spend
• Family admin, parties, trips and group trips, and School and learning
• The Family Assistant: 40 emails read a month, up to 10 a day
• Community groups

• 150 emails read a month, up to 20 a day
• Connect your Outlook or Gmail inbox, so school emails are read without forwarding
• Send school messages and photos on WhatsApp

10% off terms and camps paid through Tumble. An active card counts as Plus.

Safe screen time for children: shows, learning and games, with your rules. Join the waiting list and set each child's controls ahead of time under Family admin > Acorn screen time.

• Text reminders as well as email
• Showing your own Google calendars in Tumble, once Google approves the app (pasted calendar links work today)
• Two-way sync with Outlook (Google is two way today for entries you make in Tumble)
• Reading school emails straight from Gmail, once Google's security review is complete
• Age-matched present ideas on party invites
• The Tumble app for iPhone and Android