Register your school

Five ways in

Find your way into the work

Run a school? Write poems? Have a Saturday free, or a budget to place? Each route below takes about five minutes and reaches a real person.

After you submit

What actually happens next

No auto-responder black hole. Every form lands in an inbox a person checks.

You get a confirmation

An email with your reference number arrives straight away. Keep it — quoting it gets you a faster answer.

A person reads it

Applications and registrations are reviewed by the team, not sorted by a script.

We reply

Usually within two to five working days depending on the route you took.

Questions

Before you commit

No. Registering is free, and running a club costs the school nothing. Where a school cannot cover materials, our partners do.

Roughly two hours a week across a term, at a time that suits your timetable. Most schools run it after school or in a dedicated club slot.

A room or hall, a staff contact who can let the facilitator in and keep a register, and pupils who want to be there. We bring the facilitator, the curriculum, the prompts and the materials.

Both primary and secondary. Session plans are written for the age in the room, so tell us your year groups when you register.

No. You need enthusiasm for poetry and a willingness to be trained. Many of our facilitators are poets and mentorship alumni rather than teachers.

About two hours a week for the club itself, plus a short prep. Training happens in cohorts before you are matched with a school.

Facilitator roles are currently volunteer positions with expenses covered. As partnerships grow we intend to change that, and facilitators are first in line when we do.

Event support, photography, video, design, social media, logistics, admin and mentoring. Tell us your skills and availability and we will match you to something real.

No. Volunteers are on a roster and we reach out when something matching your skills comes up. Say yes when you can.

Facilitator training, session materials, anthology production and showcase costs — venue, sound and photography. We report back on exactly where it went.

Yes. Sponsoring one club covers a facilitator, materials and a full term of weekly sessions for a whole cohort, and you can be named in that school.

Not sure which one fits?

Send us a message describing what you would like to do and we will point you at the right route.