My story

Built on a
Monday night.
Out of necessity.

Rachel · Founder · Malahide →
Rachel and Ella enjoying ice cream in Malahide
The story behind sortd
I needed this. So I built it.
"I'm a working mum to Ella (5) and Finn (2). This summer is my first ever school holiday to navigate — 8+ weeks with no childcare for Ella, but nowhere near 8+ weeks of annual leave."

Information about summer camps was scattered everywhere. Instagram. WhatsApp groups. Websites that hadn't been updated since 2022. If you weren't following the right account or in the right group, you were missing out. Not just on one camp — on entire categories of camps you didn't even know existed in your area.

I wanted to see everything in one place. Plan Ella's 8 weeks. Sign her up to camps where her friends were going. Coordinate drop-offs and pick-ups with our village — because that's how school holidays actually work when both parents are working full time.

There was no centralised hub. So I built one. Last Monday night.

sortd started with north Dublin — the area I know best, the camps I'd been researching anyway. Within a few weeks, 93 camps were listed. Parents started sharing it with other parents. Providers started asking to be added. And I realised this wasn't just a personal project — it was something that genuinely helped.

We're expanding county by county across all of Ireland. The goal is simple: no working parent should have to spend hours hunting for summer camps across 14 different WhatsApp groups ever again.

no VC money. no boardroom. just a real problem, sorted →
What we believe
Four values that drive everything.
01
Community over algorithm

Built by parents, for parents. Real info from real people — not a feed optimised for engagement. If it's on sortd, a parent has checked it out.

02
Happy kids, not just covered kids

The goal isn't just to fill weeks of childcare. It's for children to go somewhere they want to be — not dropped off at a camp crying because mummy has to work.

03
Share the load

No parent should carry this alone. Summer planning works when you can coordinate with your whole village — partners, grandparents, sisters-in-law, other parents.

04
Built in the real world

No VC money. No growth hacks. A real problem solved honestly and shared with the community that needed it. That's still the only brief.

Our mission
To help working parents plan activities their children love — around work, not instead of it.

A world where working mums no longer carry the burden of juggling childcare and work so disproportionately. That's the vision. sortd is the start.

summer sorted. one camp at a time →
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