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Affordable Websites

Every organisation needs a website, but not all organisations have deep pockets, especially those doing work that benefits people & planet. You shouldn't be left choosing between spending money that should go towards your work and settling for a site that undersells what you do.

With us, that trade-off is not one you need to make. Our mission is to lower the barrier of entry for great tech, and that's why we deliver this solution at-cost for eligible UK-based entities working in the public interest.

Who This Is For

This solution is available at our reduced rates to:

  • registered charities
  • Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs)
  • Community Interest Companies (CICs)
  • community benefit societies
  • co-operative and mutual societies
  • worker-owned businesses

If you're not sure whether you qualify, get in touch and we'll work it out together.

For-Profit Companies

We also take on work for for-profit companies, at higher rates across build, hosting and support, bringing our pricing closer in line with the wider market.

Those higher rates help subsidise the public interest work above: working with us as a for-profit company means part of what you pay goes towards charities, co-operatives and the rest of our mission-led client base. It's a similar principle to the discounted non-profit pricing long offered by major software providers, such as Microsoft 365 Nonprofit and Salesforce.org.

What We Build

Affordable pricing doesn't mean a lesser product. Every site we build is engineered to an exceptionally high standard.

Design & Development

  • a complete design service, covering all functional and visual aspects of your site
  • bring-your-own-brand, or see our branding add-on below
  • Strapi, an open source CMS, integrated as standard so you can log in and edit your own content
  • bespoke integrations where your needs go beyond a standard build

Quality & Accessibility

  • built to WCAG AAA, the highest level of accessibility compliance
  • fully responsive, tested across every screen size from phone to widescreen
  • comprehensive automated and manual testing before every release
  • a modern, actively maintained stack, built with progressive enhancement so your site still works before JavaScript loads

Hosting & Cost

  • builds start from £500, scaling with the size of your project
  • hosting starts from £10/month, scaling with traffic
  • carbon-neutral hosting, covered as part of our environmental commitments
  • your monthly hosting fee includes standard maintenance: security patches and iterative improvements to the platform your site runs on
  • anything beyond that, like new features or design changes, is separate support work, still charged at-cost

Ownership

  • open source by default, so you're never locked into us
  • your content, your domain, your data
  • documentation clear enough that another developer could pick up where we left off

Add-ons

  • optional content copywriting, so your message lands as clearly as your design
  • a full branding consultation: a bespoke logo and complete visual theme (colours, typeface, and so on) that together form a consistent language for your brand and are yours to keep and reuse across all your organisation's content, not just your site.

Our Process

  1. a design consultation and wireframe or proof-of-concept, at a low fixed fee, credited against your final invoice if you go ahead

  2. the build itself, priced at-cost once you've approved the direction, and with a tight feedback loop to keep us on-track

  3. handover, with documentation and access to everything, so you're never dependent on us to keep going

Work With Us

Eligible and ready to start?

If you're a charity, CIO, CIC, community benefit society, co-operative or worker-owned business looking for an affordable website, get in touch via our contact form. If our starting prices still aren't viable for you, get in touch anyway — we may be able to find a suitable arrangement.

A for-profit company?

We'd still love to work with you, at our adjusted rates. Get in touch via our contact form and we'll get started.