Your donor lands on a three-step form. The submit button fires a spinner that hangs for eight seconds. They refresh. Their session expires. The donation never completes — and your analytics show a clean page with zero errors. Charity website development rebuilds this flow from the server up: single-page donation capture with real-time Gift Aid validation, Stripe webhooks that log partial attempts, impact counters that pull live totals from your CRM, and page speed that stays sub-1.2s even when your Christmas appeal lands in 6,000 inboxes at once. Most charity platforms bundle a form builder with a theme. We ship donation infrastructure — session recovery, recurring Direct Debit setup, donor portals that show cumulative impact — built to survive traffic spikes and trustee scrutiny without a developer on retainer.
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How much does a charity website cost?
A custom-built charity website in the UK costs between GBP3,500 and GBP25,000 depending on organisation size and feature scope. Template-based builds start under GBP1,000 but often cost more long-term in lost donations and manual workarounds.
Do you handle Gift Aid?
Yes. Every donation flow we build includes a Gift Aid declaration with HMRC-compliant record-keeping and automated claim file generation.
Can we migrate from our existing WordPress site?
Yes. We handle full WordPress-to-Next.js migration including 301 redirects, content preservation, SEO continuity, and donor data migration. Zero downtime during the switchover.
How long does a charity website build take?
Four weeks to a launch-ready MVP, six to twelve weeks for full-featured builds with volunteer portals, programmatic SEO, and multi-language support.
Do you offer pro bono work?
We subsidise small-charity builds by 50 -- 75% below our commercial rates. We don't offer 100% free builds, because we've seen too many "free" charity websites abandoned mid-project. Paying something -- even subsidised -- keeps everyone accountable.
What CRMs do you integrate with?
Salesforce NPSP, Beacon CRM, Donorfy, Raiser's Edge, and HubSpot. For smaller charities we often build the CRM into Supabase directly -- simpler and much cheaper than third-party subscriptions.
Do you support multilingual sites?
Yes. Every build includes hreflang, locale routing, and optional automated translation (we run Claude Haiku behind the scenes). We currently support 10+ languages with correct SEO signals.
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