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Your situation · Charities

Web developer for charities

Charities work to tight budgets and tighter deadlines, with trustees to answer to and grant money that can't go on the wrong build. I build sites that do the job without an ongoing platform bill quietly eating your funds. I hand them over so your team can run and extend them, rather than coming back to me every time something needs changing. If a custom donation flow or a simple, credible online presence is what you need, that's squarely the kind of work I take on.

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What gets in the way

  • Every pound is accountable. Budget that goes on a website is budget not spent on the cause, so an ongoing monthly platform bill is hard to justify year after year. A one-time build with no platform fee keeps more of your funding on the work that matters.
  • Sites often outlive the people who built them. Charities lean on volunteers and staff who move on, and a site only one person understood becomes a problem when they leave. Free AI maintenance training means whoever's there next can keep it running.
  • Non-technical trustees and volunteers need to manage it. The people responsible aren't always technical, so the site has to be straightforward to update without specialist help or a standing support contract.
  • Grant timelines are real deadlines. Funding often comes with dates attached, and a build needs to fit a defined timeline rather than drift.
  • Taking donations adds requirements. Accepting money online brings its own needs, and it's worth getting the donation flow right rather than bolting it on awkwardly.

What I'd build

Charities have to justify spend against the cause, so the case for a one-time build is simple: no monthly platform fee draining funds, and free AI maintenance training so a changing team can manage it without paying for ongoing support. Money goes once on something you own, not repeatedly on something you rent.

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Questions

Can the site take donations?

Yes. A donation flow can be built in as part of the work. The online-shop build is the right base where you're taking money online, set up so giving is straightforward for your supporters.

What happens when the volunteer who managed the site moves on?

That's exactly what the free AI maintenance training is for. Rather than the knowledge leaving with one person, the site is handed over with training so whoever picks it up next can update and extend it themselves, with no retainer and no single point of failure.

Can we get it built within our grant timeline?

The build-and-test work is quick and quoted with a clear timeline up front, so it can be planned around funding dates. The honest part: a full project including requirements and refinement typically runs a little longer end to end, so the sooner the timeline's known, the easier it is to fit.

Not quite your situation?

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Sound like a fit?

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