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Today, July 24th – or 24/7/12 – is Samaritans Day, recognising that Samaritans are available to callers who need them 24/7. At Three Rings, we’re committed to supporting Samaritans and Nightlines as we streamline helpline administration, and we’ve been doing so for a pretty long time – in fact we’re the oldest continually operating rota […]

You may have seen recent revelations about hackers stealing thousands of passwords from users of LinkedIn, eHarmony, and LastFM. If you’ve got an account on any of those systems, you can check if your password was one of the ones stolen using an automatic tool for the purpose (either LinkedIn checker, eHarmony checker, or LastFM […]

Often, people are surprised to find out just how old Three Rings is! These days it feels like just about everything is possible online, so internet-enabled volunteer management feels like the natural and normal thing to do (especially to us and the many organisations benefitting from Three Rings every day!) – but that wasn’t always […]

Three Rings is 10 years old in 2012! And, to celebrate our birthday and our Nightline roots, we’re giving every organisation using Three Rings a discount: every invoice issued in 2012 will be at our ‘unaffiliated Nightline’ rate of just £40! Back in 2002, Three Rings was a tiny project intended to help the 10 […]

Here are 10 facts about Three Rings that we think are awesome, and we think you should too: 1. Three Rings has helped around 12,000 volunteers and the helplines for which they’ve worked. If we were to take all of those volunteers, there would be enough of them to fill the new Basketball Stadium for […]

In addition to Three Rings‘ efforts to help individual Nightlines, we’re also proud to support the efforts of the Nightline Association, an umbrella charity that represents the interests of Nightlines around the UK and Ireland. One of the ways we’ve been helping out recently is by providing a single-sign-on authentication mechanism so that Nightline volunteers can […]

We’re all busy at Three Rings HQ writing code that’ll make it into the next release of Three Rings: Milestone: Hafnium – but we thought we’d take a few seconds to share with you the news of some of the “back end” upgrades our team have been making over the winter period. These aren’t the […]

Many of us on the Three Rings team are, or have previously been, Samaritans volunteers ourselves. Some of us have even been lucky enough to be Samaritans volunteers at any of the 50 (and growing!) number of branches that use Three Rings to manage their rota. But – until today – not one of us […]

Have you ever got in touch with the Three Rings team team to suggest a feature that would make things easier at your organisation? We love to hear from the people who use Three Rings on a day-to-day basis, because we’re committed to helping to make volunteering – and particularly the management of a voluntary […]

We’ve made a deviation from our usual pattern of updates this autumn: this post is here to explain why we’ve changed the release schedule, and when you’ll be getting the other features you asked for. Before January last year, Three Rings was used exclusively by Nightlines. Indeed, even today it’s used by virtually all of […]