A cancer support app for organising practical help.
Rally helps families and friends turn offers of help into clear tasks for meals, rides, errands, and everyday support in an invited circle.
Private invitations · Practical tasks · Help on the family's terms
The problem
Make practical offers of help easier to act on.
When people want to help, a shared plan can turn a broad offer into a task with a date, helpful details, and a clear person to claim it.
Offers can be hard to organise
“Let me know if you need anything” is generous, but it can be difficult to turn into a useful next step.
Details change
Meals, rides, groceries, and other everyday tasks may be useful at different times. A plan can be updated when the family asks for help.
Privacy matters
Only the people invited to help need to see the practical details of a task.
What an invited Rally circle can do
- Keep practical tasks in one invited circle
- Give meals, rides, errands, and other help a date and useful details
- Let invited helpers claim the tasks they can do
- Keep the plan flexible as the family decides what would be useful
How it works
Set up a practical-support circle
Start with the help the family is comfortable requesting, then make each task easy to understand.
Create a circle
Create an invited support circle and decide what information is appropriate to share.
Post what's needed
Add meals, rides, grocery trips, or other practical tasks with dates and useful details.
Share one link
Share the circle with family, friends, neighbours, or other people the family would like to invite.
Helpers claim slots
Helpers can open the invite link in their browser, sign in with email, and claim the tasks they are able to do.
What you can coordinate
Coordinate the everyday jobs around a family
Keep practical tasks in one place. For meal-focused support, see the meal train app; for a wider set of family tasks, see Rally's care coordination app.
Meals
Home-cooked dinners, meal delivery, food drops for the whole family. Organise a meal train.
Rides
Rides to appointments, errands, or other places the family asks for help with.
Grocery runs
Weekly shopping, collecting a few items, or other everyday errands.
Childcare
School pickups, after-school care, or help that gives a family member time for another responsibility.
Dog walking
Walks, feeding, or other pet-care jobs the household would like help with.
Household help
Lawn care, cleaning, errands, or anything that keeps daily life running.
Related practical support
Start with the kind of help you need most
Rally keeps support practical and non-clinical. Use the meal train page when meals are the immediate priority, read how to organise a meal train for someone with cancer for a permission-led planning guide, or explore care coordination for families when the circle also needs to cover rides, errands, childcare, pet care, or household tasks.
Keep the plan flexible
Let the family decide what help is useful.
Practical needs can change. Keep each task clear, update the plan when needed, and avoid adding more detail than helpers need to act.
Start small
Add the tasks that would help now
A short list of specific practical tasks is often easier for helpers to understand and choose from.
Keep details current
Update the dates and notes
Make it clear what is still needed, when it is useful, and what a helper needs to know before they claim it.
Invite thoughtfully
Share with people the family chooses
Only invite people who should see the plan, and make room for different ways people may be able to help.
Close the loop
Thank people and adjust the plan
When a task is no longer needed, remove it. A simple acknowledgment can help people feel their practical support mattered.
Questions
Frequently asked
Set up a practical-support circle
Create an invited circle, add the tasks that would help, and share it with the people the family chooses.