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Dungeons and Dragons

Next on Friday 11 September, 3pm – 5pm.

Our D&D group for S2-S6 aged folks (max age 17) returns Sept 11th. We run the group in partnership with Ancient Robot Games, with two of their staff members (Morgan and Brian) leading and supporting the sessions.

£2 per session, paid by cash or card on arrival each week.
S2 – S6 only.

If you want to join the group, please contact us at events@duncanplace.org with the following information:

Name and surname.
An emergency contact name and email/telephone number.
Any food allergies/dietary requirements in case we’re ever able to offer snacks.

We manage all personal information securely and in full compliance with GDPR requirements.

What to expect:

Split into groups of around five, players will create their own adventurer and be guided through a fantasy world, fighting monsters and maybe saving the day! Each group will also include one Game Master who will control the monsters, townspeople, and cute (or not-so-cute) animals of the world. D&D is easier to do than to explain, though, and this will be a perfect place for both new and experienced players to come together and play D&D.

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What’s changed — and why

Design notes on this event page · Dungeons and Dragons

1This one still runs on email — deliberately

The proof of concept covers Chair Yoga, Laughter, Tai Chi and the Choir. Everything else keeps the events@duncanplace.org route it has today, unchanged, so nothing breaks while the approach is being judged. Adding a session to the bookable set is one line of configuration — the question is which ones should be, and that is yours to answer, not ours.

2Most of the programme should not be bookable — and isn’t

Six modes, assigned per series: drop-in (Music Circle £3, Craft £2, Qigong £6 — untouched), roster (Chair Yoga, Laughter), block (Tai Chi, Choir), ticketed (workshops, cinema), external (other organisations), and private. Any series can move between them with one field, and every one keeps its email fallback. This is a smaller change than it looks — on purpose.

3This page is your WordPress, live

The title, description, image and dates all come from The Events Calendar you already maintain — fetched when the page is built, not copied, not migrated. Staff keep the tool they know and keep working exactly as they do now. The only new thing anywhere is who holds the bookings.

4The link survives the block rolling over

Your calendar renames each recurrence — this page is …-3. Booking is matched on the stable part of the name, so when the next 8-week block starts and the number changes, the button keeps working. Small thing; it’s the sort of small thing that silently breaks a booking page six months after launch.

5Private hires stop appearing here — but still block the room

Today “Private Booking” entries sit on the public calendar because that calendar doubles as the room diary. On one shared grid they can do their real job — holding the room — without being advertised to the public. Your what’s-on page gets cleaner for free.

6No fee on top of your price, and the list is yours

Eventbrite turns a £3 Music Circle into £3.83 for the person attending — +28% on a session priced to be affordable. It also holds 762 followers that Duncan Place cannot email. Booking on your own site charges your price and puts those people on your list.

7Nothing here is a real booking yet

The booking pages run on invented participants and no live payments. Real names start only once the privacy notice, retention schedule and processor agreement are in place — which is a first task, not an afterthought, because half of what is being sold here is handling people’s data properly.

Prepared for Duncan Place by Michal Szyszka · every figure quoted here comes from duncanplace.org, your Terms of Let or your OSCR accounts