Your Donation Form Loses 6 in 10 Donors Before They Click 'Complete'

If you're running a UK charity on a patched-together WordPress site from 2018, you're watching Gift Aid revenue disappear into broken plugins and mobile checkout failures.

Most UK charities are running WordPress sites that were built in 2018, patched together by a volunteer, and are costing them donations every single day. Slow load times kill donation form conversion. Bad mobile UX loses the 70% of donors who visit on phones. Broken Gift Aid setup means you're leaving 25p on the table for every pound donated. We build nonprofit websites that fix all of that -- and we do it at charity-friendly rates because we believe the work you do deserves technology that actually helps. ## What makes a nonprofit website effective? An effective nonprofit website does three things: it loads in under one second on mobile, it converts first-time visitors into donors with a friction-free donation flow, and it ranks for the specific searches your supporters are actually making. Everything else -- the hero carousel, the stock photos of smiling volunteers, the 15 calls to action on the homepage -- is noise. ## Who we build for Registered charities in the UK and globally. Animal shelters, medical charities, environmental nonprofits, education foundations, faith-based organisations, international development NGOs, children's charities, and community groups. We have subsidised rates for small charities (under GBP500K annual income) and fixed-fee builds for larger organisations. ## What we build - **Custom donation system** on Stripe -- one-time, recurring, sponsor-a-cause, tax receipts, Gift Aid declaration. No PayPal. No Donorbox overhead fees eating into your donations. - **Impact dashboards** pulling live data from your database -- people helped, funds raised, projects active. Transparency builds donor trust. - **Programmatic SEO pages** for the cause-specific searches your supporters make ("[cause] charities near [city]", "donate to [specific programme]"). - **Multi-language support** for international charities -- hreflang, locale routing, automated translation into the languages your programmes serve. - **Volunteer management** portal -- signups, shift calendars, hours tracking, communications. - **Fundraising campaign pages** -- custom-branded, progress-tracked, shareable. Beat JustGiving's 5% platform fee. - **Blog + content publishing** for the campaigns, events, and impact stories that drive your email list growth. - **Accessibility baked in** -- WCAG 2.1 AA compliance by default, not an afterthought. ## Why not Wix, Squarespace, or a WordPress theme? Those platforms work for very small organisations with one donation button and a contact form. They fall apart the moment you need: custom donation flows, programmatic SEO, multi-language content, API integrations with your CRM (Salesforce, Beacon, Donorfy), event management, or volunteer portals. You end up paying monthly fees for apps that plug the gaps poorly. A custom Next.js build costs more upfront but removes the recurring costs and gives you a platform that scales with your organisation. ## Our stack Next.js 15 + Supabase + Vercel. Static generation for speed (sub-1s load times), server-side rendering for dynamic content, edge caching for globally fast delivery. Supabase for your database + authentication + storage. Stripe for payments + Gift Aid handling. Deployed via automated CI/CD. You own all the code and infrastructure -- no vendor lock-in. ## Pricing Subsidised rates for registered UK charities: - Small charity (under GBP500K annual income): GBP3,500 -- GBP7,000 fixed fee - Mid-size charity (GBP500K -- GBP5M): GBP8,000 -- GBP20,000 fixed fee - Large charity or national programme: GBP25,000+ custom scope Hosting runs GBP30 -- GBP80/month (Supabase + Vercel at cost). 30 days of post-launch support included. Ongoing maintenance available on a retainer. ## FAQ **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.