ChamberWise

Happenstance Labs

About this app

ChamberWise is an independent educational app that helps people understand UK Parliament through short lessons, daily games, MP and constituency exploration, voting records, parliamentary news, and civic learning tools.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: ChamberWise is not a government app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, authorised by, or operated by UK Parliament, the UK Government, GOV.UK, the House of Commons, the House of Lords, or any government or political entity. ChamberWise does not provide government services.

ChamberWise uses publicly available information and clearly identifies source material where relevant. Official parliamentary and government-related sources used in the app include:

• UK Parliament main website: https://www.parliament.uk/
• UK Parliament Members API, for MP names, parties, constituencies, portraits and member profile information: https://members-api.parliament.uk/
• UK Parliament Bills API, for bill information used in bill lessons and games: https://bills-api.parliament.uk/
• Commons Votes, for parliamentary division and voting record information: https://votes.parliament.uk/
• Hansard, for parliamentary debate and contribution information: https://hansard.parliament.uk/
• UK Parliament What’s On / Parliamentary Calendar, for parliamentary events and calendar information: https://whatson.parliament.uk/
• UK Parliament petitions website, for petition-related learning and games: https://petition.parliament.uk/
• GOV.UK, only where government explanatory material or public civic information is referenced: https://www.gov.uk/
• Postcodes.io, for postcode-to-constituency lookup data: https://postcodes.io/
• TheyWorkForYou, for parliamentary and MP-related civic data where used: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

ChamberWise also includes a Westminster news feed and daily summaries. These are not official government sources. News and commentary sources may include: BBC News Politics, Sky News Politics, Reuters UK Politics, UK Parliament news, The Guardian Politics, Financial Times Politics, Politico, The Independent, The Times Politics, The Telegraph Politics, New Statesman, PoliticsHome, ConservativeHome, LabourList, Lib Dem Voice and Scottish Parliament news. News articles remain the responsibility of their original publishers.

What you can do in ChamberWise:

• Learn through bite-sized Westminster Academy lessons
• Play quick parliamentary minigames
• Explore MPs, constituencies and voting records
• View parliamentary activity, bills, debates and calendar context
• Read Westminster news with source attribution
• Compare learning progress with friends through XP leaderboards

ChamberWise is designed to make UK democracy easier to understand without party-political bias. It focuses on learning, civic exploration and clearly sourced parliamentary information.

What’s new

Notification updates