Earth ClanShoreline Sundays
East bank
Every Sunday, 7am
Still needs 6 pairs of hands
You keep saying"I should do something."Come on then. Sunday works.
Everyone on this street is somebody's favourite person. Dorahood is where we stop scrolling past each other and actually turn up, whoever you are, whoever you love.
It was never you. It was the setup.
We were taught that caring means paying, and that paying means it's handled. So we tap, we feel something for four seconds, and Monday arrives unchanged.Here's what nobody puts on a poster: your street isn't short of money. It's short of people who come back a second time.
Why we started thisSo we built Dorahood
So we built Dorahood, to make showing up for your street as easy as scrolling past it.
It started embarrassingly small: four of us, one chat group, one lane that needed something and absolutely nobody official on the way. We kept hitting the same wall: loads of willing people, no door to walk through. So Dorahood asks for effort first, never money. You tell us what you're good at, we hand you a real job with a real date, and afterwards you get the photos, the names and the receipts. Go from someone who feels awful about the news to someone their street knows by name.
- 5 clans
- Earth, Future, Hunger, Humanity, Voice. Pick the one your heart already picked.
- 6 currencies
- Time, energy, knowledge, love, trust, belief. Money is only the sixth-best thing you have.
- 0 rounded-up numbers
- We're new. We'd rather say 'eleven of us' than 'a growing community'.
Start here
Three steps. That is genuinely the whole thing.
See every way in- 01
What do I actually give?
Tell us what you can spare
An hour, a skill, a van, a good word. Six currencies, no money asked. You choose what is honestly true for you this month.
- 02
Then what happens?
We hand you one real job, one real date
A human writes back with a mission near you, the exact role, and the time it starts. No panels, no six week onboarding.
- 03
How do I know it mattered?
You get the photos, names and receipts
After the day, we send back what happened and what it cost, line by line. Even in the quiet months.
Live this month
Everything running right now, on one shelf.
Browse them allEarth Clan
Future ClanThe Sunday Classroom
Community hall
Sundays, 10am
Still needs 3 tutors
Hunger ClanMidnight Kitchen
Old market lane
Last Friday
Still needs 2 drivers
Humanity ClanCare Circles
Senior housing
Alternate Saturdays
Still needs 4 companions
Voice ClanHer Voice, Louder
Online plus city
Rolling
Still needs 1 editor
Humanity ClanOne Wedding, Whole Street
Jaipur
Next season
Still needs A photographer
Earth ClanThe Repair Cafe
Corner workshop
Second Saturday
Still needs Anyone handy
Future ClanThe Street Library
Bus stop wall
Always on
Still needs Books and shelves
Earth ClanShoreline Sundays
East bank
Every Sunday, 7am
Still needs 6 pairs of hands
Future ClanThe Sunday Classroom
Community hall
Sundays, 10am
Still needs 3 tutors
Hunger ClanMidnight Kitchen
Old market lane
Last Friday
Still needs 2 drivers
Humanity ClanCare Circles
Senior housing
Alternate Saturdays
Still needs 4 companions
Voice ClanHer Voice, Louder
Online plus city
Rolling
Still needs 1 editor
Humanity ClanOne Wedding, Whole Street
Jaipur
Next season
Still needs A photographer
Earth ClanThe Repair Cafe
Corner workshop
Second Saturday
Still needs Anyone handy
Future ClanThe Street Library
Bus stop wall
Always on
Still needs Books and shelves
The six currencies
You are richer than your bank app thinks. Spend some of it here.
Money is welcome, it is simply not the point. These six are what actually move a street. Pick whichever one you have going spare this month.
Give your time
Time is the most precious resource you have. Give a few hours to sit with someone, sort supplies, mentor a youth, or simply show up when the community calls.
Pledge Your HoursGive your energy
Energy moves mountains. We need boots on the ground, voices in the crowd, and hands ready to build. Donate your physical or social energy to help us mobilise and execute.
Join the Action TeamGive your knowledge
What comes easy to you might be a miracle for someone else. Lawyer, designer, accountant, teacher or mechanic, donate your expertise to empower The Dorahood.
Share Your SkillsGive your love
Empathy cures what money cannot. Become a companion to the lonely, write letters of encouragement, or open your doors to foster community care.
Spread EmpathyGive your trust
Trust is the foundation of the Dorahood. You donate trust when you introduce us to your network, advocate for us at work, and vouch for the mission in your circles.
Become an AmbassadorGive your belief
Sometimes the greatest gift is simply believing that change is possible. Add your name to our manifesto and stand in solidarity with the vision.
Sign the ManifestoHow it actually works
Eight doors. All of them open on a Saturday.
No application panel, no six week onboarding. You choose a door, a real person writes back, and within a fortnight you are standing somewhere doing something.
Pick a Saturday
One mission, one date, one job that is yours.
Put my name down
Find your clan
Five crews. Join the one you would talk about at dinner.
Put my name down
Spend what you have
An hour, a skill, a van, a good word.
Put my name down
Bring your whole office
Teams that would rather build than post about it.
Put my name down
Teach one evening
Whatever you know, someone nearby needs it.
Put my name down
Cook for a table
One pot, one street, twenty people fed properly.
Put my name down
Lend your camera
Give a family the only photographs they will own.
Put my name down
Speak up locally
Be the voice at the meeting nobody else attends.
Put my name down
The stories we've promised to earn
We could have borrowed someone else's success photos. Instead, here's what we've signed up to make true, and the day each one happens, you'll get the names, the pictures and the bill, unedited.
A wedding a family thought they'd have to apologise for, built by their street
A promise, not a result
Twelve Sundays that make Aarti the first in her family to finish school
A promise, not a result
A shoreline replanted by the people who grew up walking it
A promise, not a result
Who this is for
For the person who's been meaning to do something for roughly three years now.
The student with a free Sunday. The designer tired of designing ads. The uncle with a van. The retired teacher. The person who cried at a news clip last week and then made dinner. You don't need a cause figured out. You just need to stop waiting for a better version of yourself to volunteer first.
Can't give time yet? Sign the Wall of Belief. Belief is the first currency any movement ever runs on, and we're keeping a list of who was here early.
Put your name on it The waitlist is open
Okay. Deep breath. Put your name down.
This is the only form on the whole site, and it's the one that matters. We're a small crew building this in real time, every name that lands here gets a message from an actual human (usually me, usually late at night), not an autoresponder.
- No money asked. Ever, at this stage.
- You pick the effort you can genuinely spare.
- First missions go out to this list before anyone else.
Before you decide
The questions you are already asking.
Nothing here is a catch. If your question is not below, ask us directly and a human answers.
Latest updates
News from the missions, the clans and the accounts, published monthly, even in the months where the honest answer is "not much yet".
Do one small thing this month.
Not a pledge drive. Not a monthly plan you'll cancel in March. One morning, one street, one bunch of people who will absolutely make you tea afterwards.