Last updated: October 2026

In plain English

• Our website and free resources are for you to use with your own learners.

• Full Learning Lab resources are licensed to named schools and settings.

• Our content, stories, characters and images belong to us and can’t be copied, shared or reused without permission.

• Funding access for schools is welcome. Funded schools use the resources with their own pupils. Funding gives no rights over our content and no say in what pupils learn.

• Organisations that want to use our content in their own activities need our written permission first.

1. Who we are
This website, www.thethreadpoint.org, and ThreadPoint Learning Lab are operated by The Thread Point Studio Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16365885), registered office 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX (“ThreadPoint”, “we”, “us”). You can contact us at hello@thethreadpoint.org. The Thread Point Foundation CIC (company number 16401333) is a separate organisation. Where it runs its own activities, its own terms apply.

2. Accepting these terms
By using our website, registering for an account or using Learning Lab, you agree to these terms. If you act for a school, library, council or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to accept them on its behalf, and “you” includes that organisation. If you do not agree, please do not use our website or resources.

3. What we provide
We provide this website, free starter resources and downloads, licensed school and community resources, facilitator resources for authorised delivery teams, workshops and sessions, partner-funded access, and books and learning materials.

4. Who can use our resources
4.1 Free resources can be used by registered users for personal, educational and non-commercial use with their own learners or community.

4.2 Full Learning Lab resources are not open access. They are licensed to named schools, community settings, approved organisations or authorised delivery teams. We may approve access manually and may ask for information to confirm you qualify.

4.3 Licensed resources may be used only by the named organisation, for internal educational or community use with its own learners, during the licence period. Licences are not transferable. A licence for one school or setting does not cover other schools in a trust, other branches or partner organisations unless the licence says so.

4.4 We may refuse, suspend or withdraw access where these terms are breached or access is being misused. Where practical, we will explain why and give you a chance to respond.

5. Our content and intellectual property
5.1 All intellectual property rights in the content made available through our website and Learning Lab belong to The Thread Point Studio Ltd, its founder or their respective licensors. The Thread Point Studio Ltd makes this content available under these Terms pursuant to its ownership of, or authorisation to license, the relevant rights.

5.2 Without our prior written permission, you may not:

• copy or redistribute our content beyond the permitted use in section 4

• upload it to shared drives, intranets, websites, social media, messaging groups or public repositories outside your licensed organisation

• screenshot, record, photograph or otherwise capture it to share, store or reproduce outside the permitted use

• scrape, crawl, bulk download or systematically extract content, manually or automatically

• use it to train, fine-tune or evaluate any artificial intelligence system, model or dataset

• use our content, methods or materials to create, inform or develop competing products, services or programmes

• adapt, translate or create derivative versions

• sell, resell or use it for paid delivery

• train third parties using our materials

• remove copyright notices or present our work as your own

• suggest that any activity is delivered, approved, endorsed, accredited or partnered by ThreadPoint unless we have agreed this in writing
  5.3 Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of our intellectual property to any user, organisation or funder.

Subject to the applicable licence, authorised educators may download, print, display and reproduce resources to the extent reasonably necessary for teaching their own learners within the licensed organisation.

6. Organisational and commercial use

6.1 Our resources are intended for direct educational and community delivery to learners or community members within the organisation or setting authorised to use them. Any other use requires our prior written permission and, where applicable, a separate licence or agreement.

6.2 For the purposes of these terms, “organisational use” includes using our content, resources, learning materials or programmes in connection with the activities of commercial organisations, including infrastructure operators, developers, consultancies, contractors, suppliers and industry bodies. This includes marketing, promotion, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities, social impact programmes, stakeholder or community engagement, consultation, planning, public relations, public affairs and fundraising.

6.3 Organisational use also includes delivering, reproducing, distributing or incorporating our content into activities for third parties or on behalf of another organisation, including by that organisation’s staff or volunteers, whether or not a fee is charged and whether the activity is described as free, educational, charitable or community-focused. Access to free resources does not constitute permission for such use.

6.4 Nothing in this section prevents a school, library, community setting or other approved organisation from using resources provided through a valid ThreadPoint licence, including where access has been funded by a third party, for direct educational or community delivery to its own learners or community.

6.5 Organisations wishing to deliver ThreadPoint programmes, facilitate workshops, use our materials in their own activities or deliver activities on behalf of ThreadPoint must obtain our prior written authorisation. Such activities may be permitted under a separate facilitator agreement, delivery agreement, commissioning agreement or other applicable licence. Authorisation is limited to the activities, organisations, locations and period specified in that agreement and does not transfer ownership of our intellectual property.

6.6 Funding or commissioning access to ThreadPoint resources or programmes does not, by itself, grant the funding or commissioning organisation permission to reproduce, adapt, distribute, deliver or otherwise use our materials in its own activities. Any such rights must be expressly granted in writing.

7. Partner-funded access
7.1 Partners, funders and commissioning organisations may fund access, books, workshops, licences or programmes for schools and community settings.

7.2 Funding does not give a funder ownership of, or any rights in, our resources, methods, intellectual property or learning model.

7.3 Funded access is provided to the named schools or settings. A funder receives access to full resources only if it is also an approved licensed delivery organisation in its own right.

7.4 Funding gives no rights to use or deliver our materials. See section 6.6.”

7.5 Funding access does not mean funding the conclusion. ThreadPoint stays educationally independent, and what young people learn and decide is not shaped by funders.

7.6 Funders may say that they support access. They may not suggest we have endorsed their wider activities without our written agreement.

7.7 Reporting to funders uses anonymised or aggregated information unless personal data sharing has been agreed in writing and is lawful.

8. User accounts
You must give accurate information and keep it up to date. You are responsible for keeping your login details secure and should tell us promptly if you think your account has been accessed without permission. Accounts must not be shared outside the school or organisation named on the account or licence. We may suspend an account while we investigate suspected misuse.

9. Third-party services and links
Our website and Learning Lab are provided using third-party hosting and learning platform providers, and their own terms and privacy practices may also apply. Our website may link to other sites. We are not responsible for third-party services or sites, though we choose our providers carefully.

10. Books, products and payments
10.1 Some products and licences are paid for, by invoice, online payment or funded access arranged with a partner. Licence periods, renewal dates and what a licence includes are confirmed at the point of purchase or approval.

10.2 We may change prices and licence terms. Changes will not reduce what an organisation has already paid for during a current licence period.

10.3 If you buy a physical book as a consumer, you can usually cancel within 14 days of receiving it.

10.4 Digital resources and licences are supplied for immediate or scheduled access. To the extent the law allows, your right to cancel may be lost once access has begun or content has been downloaded. Refunds are not generally available for digital resources that have been accessed or downloaded, except where they are faulty, not as described, or the law requires one. Nothing here affects your statutory rights.

10.5 If you think you have been charged in error, contact hello@thethreadpoint.org and we will consider your request reasonably.

10.6 When a licence expires or is cancelled, access ends. Downloaded or printed licensed resources must no longer be used, and copies should be deleted or destroyed unless a renewal or written agreement is in place.

11. Children and safeguarding
Learning Lab is designed for adults: educators, facilitators, schools and organisations. Children should not create accounts or use the platform independently unless a parent, guardian, school or responsible adult permits and supervises it. Supervising adults and organisations remain responsible for supervision, safeguarding and appropriate use of resources with children and young people.

12. Acceptable use
You agree not to use our website or Learning Lab to do anything unlawful, gain unauthorised access to any part of them, interfere with their operation, get around access controls or licence restrictions, or misrepresent your identity or organisation.

13. Availability and changes
We aim to keep our website and Learning Lab available and up to date, but we do not promise uninterrupted access. We may update, replace or withdraw content and features from time to time. If a change significantly reduces what a current licence includes, we will tell affected organisations.

14. Liability
14.1 Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

14.2 Our content is provided for educational and community use. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit or loss of data arising from use of our website or Learning Lab.

14.3 Our resources support teaching and community learning. They do not replace the professional judgement of teachers, facilitators or organisations about what is suitable for their own learners.

15. Suspension and ending access
We may suspend or end access for breach of these terms, including intellectual property breaches and account sharing outside a licensed organisation. You can close your account at any time by contacting us. Sections on intellectual property, liability and privacy continue to apply afterwards.

16. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. The current version will always be on our website with its date at the top. Continuing to use our website or Learning Lab after changes take effect means you accept the updated terms. We will notify licence holders of significant changes affecting paid licences.

17. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute, except where the law of your home nation within the UK gives you additional protection.

18. Separate agreements and order of precedence

18.1 These terms govern general access to and use of our website, ThreadPoint Learning Lab and associated resources, unless a separate written agreement applies.

18.2 We may enter into separate written agreements with schools, multi-academy trusts, libraries, councils, community organisations, facilitators, delivery partners, funders, commissioners or other organisations. These may include licence agreements, pilot agreements, service agreements, facilitator agreements, commissioning agreements, funded-access agreements or partnership agreements. A written agreement means one signed, or electronically accepted, by an authorised representative of ThreadPoint and of the other organisation.

18.3 Where a separate written agreement applies, it takes precedence over these terms to the extent of any inconsistency, but only for the activities, services, resources and rights it covers.

18.4 Any provisions of these terms that do not conflict with the separate written agreement continue to apply, including the intellectual property provisions in section 5, unless the agreement expressly states otherwise.

18.5 No separate agreement transfers ownership of ThreadPoint’s intellectual property or grants any right to use, reproduce, adapt, distribute or commercially exploit our content unless that agreement expressly grants it.

18.6 Any amendment to, or extension of, a separate written agreement must be in writing and signed, or electronically accepted, by both parties.

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