Sources, checks and the limits of the list

Where the facts come from

We read each place’s website and note what it offers children: ages, the weekly timetable, prices and the period they cover, languages, trial classes and whether a parent has to stay. Many Barcelona websites are in Catalan, and they are read as written.

The address, the map point and the opening hours may also come from the place’s Google Maps listing, and a club’s affiliation from the club list its federation publishes. A place with no website can be listed from its Google listing alone when the listing itself says it is meant for children; its page then shows only the address and opening hours.

For every fact we keep the page address, the day it was read and a short quote in the page’s own language, Catalan included. Other directories, the press, booking platforms, social networks and reviews are never used as sources.

Source flags

Every source carries one of three flags: published by the place (its own website), Google listing (its page on Google Maps) or federation list (the roll of affiliated clubs a sports federation publishes).

On a place’s page the flag and the date travel with each fact, so you can see at a glance where it comes from and how fresh it is.

Facts left unpublished

When the pages we read leave a fact out, the place’s page marks it as not published and the table shows a dash. “Not published” is about our sources, not about the place.

Gaps are never filled in by guesswork. A school year, such as second year of primary or the last year of infant school, is not turned into an age. Each price keeps the period the place states; the one sum we make is the ≈ price per class, a package or course price divided by its classes.

Two different timetables

The table keeps two timetables apart. Group times: the days and hours of a class, a care session or a casal day, as the place gives them. Opening hours: when the branch itself is open, often taken from its Google listing.

A branch may be open at an hour when nothing runs for a given age. Rows that have opening hours only go below the dividing line, under a heading that says so.

The after-school pages look at weekday afternoons from 16:30, when the primary school day ends in Barcelona, to 18:30, when most extraescolars have finished. Activities held in the long midday break are mostly the school’s own, and the time filter covers any other hour. A class counts when one of its groups starts inside that span; a care programme counts when its hours, extended hours included, cover all of it.

What we leave unjudged

• No place, teacher, coach or programme receives a mark, a score or a rank.
• We visit no place in person: each fact comes from a published source.
• We do not grade the classes, the training or the care.
• Whether a group still has room we cannot tell, so ask the place.
• Prices stand as published, with their period and date, and are not confirmed with the place.

Right of reply

If you run a listed place and a fact is wrong, partial or out of date, write to us through the change form with a link to the page that shows the right fact.

Once the place’s pages back a correction, it goes in at the next update and is noted in the list history. A place that shuts keeps its page, marked as closed, and leaves every table.

Whoever runs a place may also ask for it to be taken down: in the form, choose “Ask for a place to be removed” and leave a contact that shows your role. The place, its page and its records in the downloads disappear within a month.

Dates and updates

Each place’s sources are read again before 6 months pass since the previous reading. A price published for a period that has ended stays on the place’s page with that period, but filters and summaries leave it aside.

How the site pays its way

No place pays to be listed, and no payment alters a row or where it sits in the table.

A place’s page may carry a link to Zartrace, a service tied to this list and labelled as such. Clicks on the contact buttons are only counted as totals, with no personal data.

Open data

The whole list can be downloaded as JSON, one record per place, and as CSV, one row per programme. Both files carry the sources, flags, dates and licence.

Areas, distance and the map

Barcelona has ten districtes and seventy-three official barris. The list groups them into twenty-one areas of whole barris inside one districte, under the official Catalan names families use (Gràcia, Sant Gervasi - Galvany, Poblenou), and adds six towns of the first ring, from L’Hospitalet de Llobregat to Sant Cugat del Vallès. A branch in another nearby town, such as Sant Just Desvern or Sant Adrià de Besòs, is filed under that town. Each branch belongs to the area whose official boundary contains it.

Distance runs in a straight line from the point you pick to the nearest branch, rounded to half a kilometre. Your position is asked for only when you press the button, and it never leaves your browser.

Points placed from a street address are approximate. Map data and the boundaries of districtes, barris and towns © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the ODbL licence.