One minute to apply, then you are in.

How it works

• Fill in the form. Your name, your WhatsApp number, and your Loughborough email and student number. It takes about a minute.
• Request to join. The last screen has a link to FB 2026/27 on WhatsApp. Tap it and request to join with the same number you gave us.
• We let you in. We match your request to your form and approve you.

Why there is a form now

Last year the community grew faster than we planned, and an open link means spam gets in with everyone else. Asking for a Loughborough email and student number keeps the group to the people it is for. That is all the form is for.

Once you are in

• You are in FB 2026/27, the members' group, where people share what they are building, ask for help and find people to build with.
• Events go out in Announcements first. That is the main reason the community exists.
• Nobody will message you individually, and nothing gets sold to you.
• You can leave whenever you want, and plenty of people lurk for a term before they come to anything. That is fine.

You do not need a startup

Most people in the community are building something, thinking about building something, or curious about the people who are. Any course, any year, undergraduate or postgraduate. If you are a Loughborough student or alumnus, you qualify.

Not from Loughborough, but you know someone in FB? There is a Friend of FB option on the form, and we look at those one by one.

If you turn up to a room and spend the whole evening asking other people questions, you have used it correctly.

What it costs

Nothing to join, and there is no membership fee. Most events are free, and if one has a ticket, we say so up front.