Free pilot · Taking 3 UK charities

I'll redesign your charity's website — for free.

Your website is read by funders, families and volunteers deciding whether to trust you. I redesign small charities' websites so they earn that trust — free, yours to keep, and a short testimonial is the only thing I ask for. There's no budget to find, no brief to write and no afternoon to clear — send me your web address and I'll take it from there.

See my work

Send me your website

No cost. No obligation. You keep the design either way.

The offer

What you get

  • A complete redesign — every key page, not just the homepage — see what that looks like.
  • Built for a charity your size — the handful of pages a funder or a family actually opens, done properly.
  • Yours to keep — free, with no obligation to continue afterwards. You own everything: the code, the content, the domain. I'll hand it all over, or host it wherever you like — and I'm happy to put that in writing before we start.
  • A plain-English diagnosis — before I redesign anything, you get a short note on what's actually broken and why it matters. No jargon, no blame.

The process

How it works — three steps, minutes of your time

  1. Say yes

    Send me your current website address. That's the only thing I need to start.

  2. I redesign your site

    I do the full redesign — free, and with no work needed from you.

  3. You review it

    Love it? It's yours to keep. All I ask is an honest review and a short testimonial.

The catch

Why free? No catch — here's the honest reason.

I'm a UK web designer building my portfolio, and I'd rather show what I can do than talk about it. So I'm redesigning websites for a handful of small charities at no cost. You get a modern website. I get your honest review and a short testimonial I can show future clients. That's the whole deal — no bait, no upsell, no small print.

It's also why I do all of it. Sector-wide, 63% of small charities say squeezed finances are their biggest barrier to digital — and half say they simply don't have the capacity to take it on. So the deal is shaped for that: no cost, and no work needed from you beyond a yes and a review. (Charity Digital Skills Report 2026)

Before → After

Five homepages I rebuilt before anyone asked me to

Here are homepage rebuilds I've made — every one of them uninvited, built on the charity's real content to show rather than tell. And, at the end, a booking system for a venue that needed more than a website. Your redesign would cover your whole website, not just the homepage.

On a computer, hover over any screenshot to scroll through the whole page — and click it to visit the real site. The stills don't show the animation, so the live sites are worth a look.

Street Fit Scotland streetfitscotland.org

Before Full-page view of the old Street Fit Scotland website See the old site ↗ After Full-page view of the redesigned Street Fit Scotland website Visit the live redesign ↗
Broken

The old site looked years out of date on a phone — which is where the people they help actually are.

Done

Rebuilt fast and mobile-first, with a proper editing backend so updates don't need a developer.

Why

People quietly check whether a charity is still active before they reach out. The site should answer yes at a glance.

Three more redesigns

Duncan Place duncanplace.org

Before Full-page view of the old Duncan Place website See the old site ↗ After Full-page view of the redesigned Duncan Place website Visit the live redesign ↗
Broken

What's on, room hire and the story of the building lived in different places — none of them bookable from the site.

Done

A modern homepage that puts the hall's life — events, rooms, people — on one page that works on a phone.

Why

A community hall's website is its front door; it should show the building full, not describe it empty.

The Open Door theopendoor.org.uk

Before Full-page view of the old Open Door website See the old site ↗ After Full-page view of the redesigned Open Door website Visit the live redesign ↗
Broken

A dated layout that undersold decades of real work, and updating it meant asking for outside help.

Done

Rebuilt clean and accessible, so staff can click on the page and type.

Why

Independence: the charity owns its own words, and nothing waits on a web developer's diary.

Health All Round healthallround.org.uk

Before Full-page view of the old Health All Round website See the old site ↗ After Full-page view of the redesigned Health All Round website Visit the live redesign ↗
Broken

Years of trusted local work, presented in a layout that couldn't carry them.

Done

Redesigned to look like what it is — a professional service people can refer their neighbours to.

Why

GPs, social workers and funders check a service's website before they refer or fund. The answers they need should be easy to find.

The Salisbury Centre salisburycentre.org Booking system

What the platform costs them — and what booking direct is worth

Not a redesign — a booking system. This Edinburgh wellbeing centre hires out its rooms, so I built the system to run that: live availability, card payment, and one diary for the whole building.

Booking it today The Salisbury Centre's current room-hire page, where bookings start with an enquiry form See how it works now ↗ With a booking system The booking system I built for The Salisbury Centre, showing live availability and prices for each room Try the live prototype ↗
Broken

Room hire starts with an enquiry form and ends in an email queue, while their guest rooms sell themselves on a booking platform that takes a cut of every stay.

Done

A working booking system on their own site — live availability, card payment, one diary for the building — built on their real rooms and real rates.

Why

They already run instant, card-paid bookings brilliantly on someone else's platform. The only thing missing was somewhere to do it that they own.

The diagnosis

What I actually look for

Almost every charity website I audit, I find the same few leaks. Two recent examples — names withheld, numbers real:

The fee leak

£3.00 Your own site £3.83 Ticketing platform +28%

One venue's £3 community event costs its members £3.83 on a ticketing platform — a 28% surcharge on the people who can least afford it. The fix isn't a prettier page; it's taking bookings on your own site.

The invisible pages

Invisible Indexed and findable

1 in 3 pages of one charity's website were invisible to Google. Nobody had done anything wrong — the site had just grown for years without anyone pruning it, and the pages that matter were buried under the ones that don't.

None of this shows up in a screenshot. It's why every redesign starts with a diagnosis, not a moodboard.

One real project — names withheld

One diagnosis, start to finish

The situation

A community centre rents out its spaces to yoga teachers, therapists and local groups. On the surface the website looked dated. The website wasn't the real problem.

What was actually broken

Every booking — including from people who had hired the same space at the same hour for years — started as an enquiry form, went into an email queue, and waited for the office to next be open. Paperwork to sign, payment by invoice. The diary lived in emails, not in a system anyone else could see. And almost all of the regular programmes repeat weekly, so the same bookings were being re-typed term after term.

What I built, and why each piece exists

The piece The pain it kills
Live availability on the site The enquiry-and-wait email queue
A whole term booked in one go Regulars re-typing the same booking every term
Card payment at booking Money arriving weeks later, by chased invoice
One diary for every room The real schedule living in one person's head
A hirer's own page to cancel or renew "Quick" changes that each cost an email exchange

What changed

This one is honest: it's a working prototype, built on the centre's real spaces and published rates, uninvited — because I'd rather show than pitch. The numbers I'd track from day one: bookings completed without the office touching them, and admin hours returned per week.

A good fit?

Is this for you?

This is for small UK charities with a website that feels dated, homemade, or just isn't doing you justice — one that's quietly costing you donations, volunteers, or trust. I'm taking just 3 charities so I can give each one real care and attention.

That said, I'd rather tell you now if it's not a fit. If your website was redone recently and it's doing its job, or you're working to a fixed launch date, hold on to what you've got. And if what you really need is a pair of hands to keep updating the site for you, that's a staff role, not this — everything I build gets handed over and becomes yours.

Before you decide

Fair questions

What's the catch — will a bill turn up later?

No. The redesign is free, I set the hosting up on free tiers, and everything is yours on handover. If you ever want paid help later on, that's a conversation you'd start, not me.

What happens to our current website while you work?

Nothing. Your current site stays live and untouched while I build the new one alongside it. Nothing switches over until you say so.

Nobody here is technical — who updates it afterwards?

You do — you click the page, type your change and save. That's what the editor is for — every site I've rebuilt has one built in. If you can write an email, you can update your website.

How long does it take?

It depends on how big your site is. I'll give you a straight estimate before anything starts, so you're never guessing. Either way, your part takes minutes.

Are we too small?

Small is rather the point. This offer exists because small charities rarely have the money or the spare hands for a job like this — that's the gap I'm trying to fill. If anything, the smaller you are, the more this is for you.

What if we don't like it?

Then you keep your old site and we part friends. No obligation was the deal from the start. You lose nothing by finding out.

This arrived not long after I started:

“My first impression of the booking system you designed is very positive, thank you”

— Iddo Oberski

Send me your web address. That's the whole ask.

Taking 3 UK charities. No cost. No obligation. You keep the design either way.

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