responda

Brigade management

Keep your brigade's records in one place.

responda is a brigade management system for volunteer emergency services. Members sign in at the station, and brigade leadership keeps the member list up to date. When a report is due, the numbers are already there. An organisation with many brigades gets the same report from each one.

Most brigades keep these records across spreadsheets, group chats and people's memories. We built responda so there is one place to keep them.

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The brigade activity report responda exports for Paddington demo brigade
The first page of an activity report from our demo brigade.Demonstration data. No real member data is shown.

What responda is

The records every brigade has to keep.

A brigade has to know who its members are, who is in its leadership and who has been at the station. responda keeps all of that. If a record is edited, you can still see what it said before.

Each brigade enters its own members and sign-ins. The organisation can look across all of its brigades without chasing anyone for a spreadsheet.

What it does

Four parts, each with an example from our demo brigade.

  1. Sign in and out at the station

    Members sign in at the station kiosk when they arrive and sign out when they leave. Brigade leadership can see who is signed in at any time.

    Station sign-in

  2. An up-to-date member list

    One member list for the brigade. Leadership updates it when people join or change roles.

    Brigade records

  3. Activity reports without the spreadsheet

    Pick the dates and responda adds up the sign-ins and hours. Export the report as a PDF.

    Insights

  4. A history of every change

    If someone changes a record, you can still see what it said before, and who changed it.

    The system of record

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