Websites for Charities

Most small charities are running a website that was built once, by a volunteer or an agency who moved on, and has not been touched since. It is slow, it is difficult to use on a phone, and it does not meet accessibility duties. We rebuild those sites — properly, accessibly, and without a five-figure invoice.

We Have Actually Done This

Buttercup Children's Trust helps seriously ill children and their families. Their previous website scored 14 out of 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights, was hard to read on a phone, and gave search engines nothing to work with.

The rebuilt site scores 100. It loads in under a second, works properly on the phones most of their visitors actually use, and describes the charity clearly enough that Google and social platforms no longer have to guess what it is.

That is one case study, not a portfolio, and we would rather say so than pad it out. It is also the reason we understand what a charity website has to do: it is not a shop window, it is the thing a worried parent finds at eleven at night, and the thing a funder checks before making a decision.

Accessibility Is Not Optional For You

A charity website has a harder job than a business one. The people who need it are often reading it under stress, sometimes on an old phone with a poor connection, sometimes using a screen reader. Trustees also have duties here that a commercial site does not have in the same way.

We build to WCAG 2.1 AA: real colour contrast, keyboard navigation that works, headings in a sensible order, forms that announce their own errors, and text that reflows when someone zooms to 200%. Not an accessibility overlay widget bolted on at the end, which is a compliance risk rather than a fix.

Every site we hand over comes with a written accessibility statement you can publish, and a plain-English note on what was tested and what was not.

What It Costs, And Why We Say So

Charities get quoted badly. Either a five-figure agency price that is impossible to justify to a board, or a free build from a volunteer that nobody can maintain once they leave.

Our charity websites run on the same pay-monthly model as everything else: from £99 a month, no upfront build cost, and that includes hosting, security updates, accessibility checks, content changes and the technical SEO work. Cancel and you keep the content — we will export it and help you move.

If the monthly cost is the thing stopping you, say so and we will talk about it. We would rather do the work than have you stay on a site that is failing the people you help.

Being Found By The People Who Need You

A charity has two audiences searching for it: the people it helps, and the people who might fund or support it. They search very differently, and most charity websites are written for neither.

We set up the things that make a small charity findable: a Google Business Profile that shows your actual services, Charity schema so search engines understand what you are, local visibility for the area you cover, and pages written around what someone actually types when they are looking for help.

We also get you listed where charities genuinely belong — council and CVS directories, funder listings, sector resource pages. These are editorial listings, earned rather than bought. We do not buy links, take part in exchanges, or use directories that charge for inclusion.

Working With Trustees, Not Around Them

A charity does not have a marketing manager who can sign things off on the spot. It has a board that meets monthly, volunteers with day jobs, and someone who ended up owning the website because nobody else would.

So we write for that: a scope a board can read in one sitting, decisions batched so you are not chasing approvals between meetings, and no jargon in anything we send you. Content changes come to us by email and get done — you do not have to learn a CMS to fix a date on an event page.