A website that helps people give, join and turn up.
Supporters want to know what you do, who it helps and how to get involved, and they decide quickly. I build websites for charities, clubs and societies that make that clear and make the next step easy, whether it’s donating, booking, joining or volunteering. Fixed prices in writing, and registered charities get slightly different pricing, so ask.
Websites from £1,700 Care from £87/mo Registered charities: ask about pricing Fixed prices, in writing, before any work begins.
- Donations, events and memberships, handled properly.
- Written so supporters understand your work in a minute.
- Easy for staff and volunteers to keep up to date.
Your work speaks for itself. The website has to let it.
Small charities do remarkable things on small budgets. The website should make that obvious to the people who could help.
The Prospects Trust at Snakehall Farm in Reach gives people with learning disabilities, autism and additional needs meaningful work and training. Its website explains what the Trust does and who it’s for, takes donations through LocalGiving and books people onto its events.
Racing to School is an education charity that runs free outdoor learning events at racing venues for schools, with a focus on young people with special educational needs and those from inner-city, rural and deprived areas. Its website links to JustGiving for donations and makes it easy for a school to get in touch about a visit.
For societies and clubs, the job is often membership. The Surgical Research Society runs its memberships and ticket sales through the website I built, and Ely Rowing Club uses its website for new members, learn-to-row courses and a members’ area.
The Prospects TrustReach, Cambridgeshire
Registered charities get slightly different pricing and the same care plans afterwards. Ask on the first call.
Three things that make this work for charities.
Trustees need a price they can approve, supporters need a clear next step, and whoever updates the website needs it to be simple.
A price trustees can approve.
A fixed price in writing before any work starts, a written proposal within two working days of our first call, and care from £87 a month afterwards. No surprise invoices, and no retainer you can’t leave.
The next step, made easy.
Donate, book, join or volunteer, one tap away on a phone. Donations can go through JustGiving or LocalGiving, which you may already use, or straight to you by card on your own website.
Simple to keep up to date.
WordPress set up so staff and volunteers can add news, events and photos without breaking anything, with a 30-minute walk-through and a one-page guide to keep.
Charities, societies and clubs I’ve built for.
From a working farm in Reach to a national society for surgical research.
What a charity website from me includes.
Every project is quoted to the job, but these are the parts most charities and clubs need.
Accessibility is part of the build, not an extra: readable contrast, proper headings, and forms that work with a keyboard.
Your story, told plainly
Who you help, how, and what difference it makes, written with you in plain English.
Donations
A clear way to give through JustGiving, LocalGiving or card payments on your own website, on every page that needs one.
Events and tickets
Event listings, with booking and ticket sales where you need them.
Memberships
Join and renew online, with a members’ area where it helps.
Volunteers and partners
Pages and forms for volunteers, partners and funders, so the right people reach the right person.
Training and a guide
A 30-minute walk-through for whoever updates the website, then a one-page guide.
Care, so it stays safe
Hosting, backups, security, updates and small changes from £87 a month.
Four steps, at a pace that suits a board of trustees.
The same four steps as every project, with a written proposal you can take to your next meeting.
About four weeks from the first call to launch, six for an online shop. The honest variable is how quickly words and photos come back.
Talk
30 minutes, freeA call about what you do, who the website is for, what it has to do and what isn’t working now.
Quote
Week 1A written proposal within two working days: a fixed price and a timeline. Sign it or sleep on it, no obligation. No hourly billing, ever.
Build
Weeks 2 to 3I design and build, and you see it taking shape and say what you think. Short email check-ins, no project portal.
Launch and care
From launchWe go live, I show you the ropes in 30 minutes, and the care plan keeps it fast, safe and found from then on.
Charity websites, plainly answered.
The questions people ask on the first call. If yours isn’t here, send it over and I’ll answer it straight.
How much does a charity website cost?
Can people donate through the website?
Can members join and renew online?
Will our staff and volunteers be able to update it?
Do you work with clubs and community groups as well as charities?
More supporters, members and volunteers.
Thirty minutes on a call, no obligation. Or send a message about your organisation and what the website needs to do, and I’ll come back the same day, Monday to Friday.
One small ask. Have a think about the one thing you most want visitors to do: give, join, book or volunteer. It shapes the whole website.