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Students, recent graduates and people who work with student founders in Ireland. Joining is free: enter your email, type the 6-digit code we send you, and set up your profile with your name and how you're connected to a college.

Verified members can see the member directory, connect with people and publish startups. Verify with your college email address (we store only a one-way fingerprint of it, never the address) or with an invitation from the team. You don't need to verify to register for events or buy a ticket.

Free events need one tap to register; your ticket is a QR code in the app. For paid events you pay securely through Stripe. If you cancel at least 48 hours before the start you get the ticket price back automatically, minus the card fee; later cancellations free your place but aren't refunded. If the event is cancelled, or fills up while you're paying, you're refunded in full. A society's tickets are sold by the society; Founder Quarter takes the payment as its booking agent. You need to be 18 or older to buy.

Yes. Follow as many societies as you like with one profile. You'll see their events and updates in the app, and you choose for each society whether to get its emails and whether it shows on your profile. Unfollow at any time from the society's page.

Anyone with an account can follow a society to see its events and updates. Members are verified students: to become a member of a college's society you verify your email at that college (or our team confirms where you study), and some societies also approve new members first. Saying where you study on your profile isn't enough. If you can't join yet, the society's page shows you how.

If you follow or join a society, its current committee sees your name, the profile details you share, that you follow or joined, and your registrations and check-ins at its events. They never see your email address: their messages are sent by Founder Quarter with an unsubscribe link.

An optional Monday email with upcoming events from the societies you follow, events across the network and new opportunities. It's off unless you switch it on in Settings, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

Yes, if you allow them in Settings: event reminders, updates from societies you follow and connection requests. On an iPhone, first add Founder Quarter to your home screen (Share → Add to Home Screen) and open it from there; iOS only allows notifications for installed apps.

Go to Settings. You can download a copy of your data, change who sees your profile, manage every email and delete your account. Deleting is immediate; payment records are kept only as Irish tax law requires.

A verified member who sits on the committee registers the society, confirms it through the society's official email or its Students' Union, and the chair accepts the Society Terms and the Joint-Controller Arrangement. The Founder Quarter team reviews every society before its page goes public.

Roles are chair, secretary, treasurer, events, comms and committee member. Each role opens only the tools it needs: for example events leads create events and check people in, comms leads post updates, and the treasurer sees the society's money. Society roles never give access to anything outside the society.

Events (with registration, QR check-in, attendee lists and feedback), co-hosted events with other societies, updates to followers and members, your member list, speakers, business contacts, a printable report, and the yearly handover to next year's committee.

Yes: post an update and choose to email it. Emails go only to followers who ticked "Email me this society's updates" (everyone else sees your updates in the app) and are sent by Founder Quarter with an unsubscribe link. There's a weekly limit per society, and the team may review emails before they go out.

Invite the incoming committee, then start the new academic year from the console's Committee section: the people you tick continue and everyone else steps down at that moment. Events, followers, contacts and history stay with the society, and you can leave notes for the next committee.

Paid tickets: yes, when payments are switched on. Your society sells the tickets; Founder Quarter collects the payment as its booking agent, keeps its commission (shown in the console's Money section) and owes your society the rest of what buyers paid, less card fees, refunds and card disputes, shown entry by entry in the console's Money section. Someone who cancels 48+ hours ahead gets the price back minus the card fee, so it costs the society nothing. Ticket money can be paid out 7 days after the event, with 10% kept for 120 days as a reserve for card disputes, by bank transfer. Membership fees need your Students' Union's permission and the team's approval before they go live.

Founder Quarter sometimes brings a sponsor to the network and invites societies to take part, with a share of the sponsorship. Nothing appears on your page unless you accept the offer in the console's Sponsors section. Check your Students' Union's rules on sponsorship first.

Sponsor events or the network, list roles, host visits or send speakers. Tell us what you have in mind through the partner form and the team will reply.

Yes. Feature a role from the opportunities page: it's paid by card, reviewed by the team and shown at the top of the board for 30 days. If it isn't a fit, you're refunded.

Members who choose to be found by partner employers. Partners with access see the profiles members share, and contact them through the platform; a member's email is shared only if they accept.

Only when the partnership is confirmed and you've approved how your name and logo are used. Partner contacts can then keep their public profile (about, careers page, hiring) up to date from the partner portal.

Plus is an optional membership with extras such as early registration and tools for your applications. Cancel any time from the Plus page in the app: you keep Plus until the end of the period you paid for, and within 14 days of buying you can withdraw for a full refund with the "Withdraw from contract here" button on the same page.

Withdraw at least 7 days before a paid programme starts, or within 14 days of paying as long as it hasn't started, for a full refund. If you withdraw within 14 days of paying after it has started, you get back the part not yet provided. If a cohort fills up while you're paying, you're refunded in full.

Payments are taken by Alcaraz Technologies Limited, which operates Founder Quarter, through Stripe. Stripe emails a receipt for every payment. Businesses buying a featured listing or a sponsorship get an invoice with their billing details and tax ID.

Only if it's shown: when a society event carries a booking fee, the event page shows the ticket price, the fee and the total before you pay, and Stripe Checkout lists it as its own line.