Why volunteers need no account
Most volunteering apps start by asking you to make an account. Kadim doesn’t, and that is a deliberate choice, not a missing feature. This page explains the link-and-code model and why it works the way it does.
How it works
Your coordinator shares a link to the week’s roster. You tap it, tap the slot you want, enter your name and UK mobile number, and confirm with a 6-digit code we text you. That code is the whole sign-in. There is no username, no password, and no email to verify.
Why no account
- The lowest possible friction. The single biggest thing that stops someone volunteering is a sign-up wall. A link and a code is about as little as we can ask of a busy person reading a WhatsApp message.
- Less to store, less to leak. No account means no password to steal and no profile to breach. We hold your first name and your number, and that is all. See How Kadim protects volunteers’ privacy .
- The number is the proof. A code texted to your phone proves you hold that number. For claiming a slot, that is exactly the proof that matters.
Your phone remembers you
The first time you claim, your phone quietly remembers you. Come back to the same link the next week and you claim with two taps: Claim, then confirm. There is no number to re-enter and no new code, because we already know this is your device.
That memory lives on your phone, not in an account you manage. If you clear it, switch phones, or leave it long enough that the memory expires, no problem: you simply confirm your number with a fresh code again, exactly as the first time.
Where a code is still needed
A texted code protects the moments that matter: your first claim on a new device, and anything that shares your DBS status with a new mosque. A code is only ever sent because you asked to sign in, so it is never a text that arrives uninvited. What Kadim sends the rest of the time, and how to stop it, is in The texts Kadim sends you .
Coordinators and trustees do sign in
The account-free model is for volunteers. Coordinators and trustees sign in with their own email, because they act on other people’s rotas and safeguarding records, and that authority has to be tied to a verified person. How they are appointed is covered in Appoint your committee .