For charities
Websites for small charities
Describe your charity and get a finished website in about a minute: who you help, how people can support you, your charity number in the footer and the statements people look for. Built for UK charities run by small teams and volunteers.
What's included
What a small charity's website needs
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Your charity number, shown properly
Tell us your legal form and register, whether that's the Charity Commission for England and Wales, OSCR or the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, and the footer carries the statement for you to check. Numbers are checked against each register's format, so an SC number typed with a letter O gets caught.
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Privacy, cookie and accessibility statements
Drafted from what's actually on your site, so they change when your site does. Only one of the 62 small charity and arts sites we looked at had an accessibility statement.
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A donate button that goes to your provider
Link to JustGiving, CAF Donate, PayPal or whoever you already use, with suggested amounts and your Gift Aid wording.
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Annual reports and updates
Upload your annual report and other PDFs with dates and summaries, and post dated updates on your campaigns and projects.
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Trustees and volunteers can help
Invite people to edit. Every change is kept as a version you can restore, and nothing goes public until someone presses Publish.
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Accessible by default
Colours are checked for contrast, every photo needs a description, and pages work with keyboards and screen readers.
Money and data
Donations stay with the provider you trust
We don't take donations or hold supporters' details on your site. Your donate button goes to the provider you already use, and they handle payments and Gift Aid declarations as they do now.
That means no payment plugins to keep up to date, and no card details passing through your site.
Questions
Questions charities ask
Does our website have to show our charity number?
It depends on where you're registered and your legal form. OSCR's guidance asks Scottish charities, of any size, to show their details on the website's home page. In England and Wales, charities with income over £10,000 must say they're registered on documents that ask for money, and NCVO advises them to show their registered name and number online too. Charitable companies have extra details to show. Digital Society builds the footer statement from the details you enter, for you to check against your regulator's guidance.
What happens when the person who built the site moves on?
The site belongs to your organisation, not to one person's account. Owners invite and manage editors, so the next trustee or volunteer can pick it up.
Can we use our own web address?
Yes. Every site gets an address on digital-society.uk straight away, and you can connect a domain you already own.
What does it cost?
We're open by invitation while we work closely with a small group of organisations. When we open up, there will be a free plan and paid plans for those who need more.
Digital Society is also for arts organisations and community groups.
Ready when you are
We're opening up to a few organisations at a time. Request an invite, or sign in if you've had one.