Blackpool has one of the busiest third sectors in the country, because it has to. Food banks, youth clubs, addiction recovery, veterans’ groups, community sports, church halls doing five jobs at once - and almost all of it running on volunteers and thin funding. The website usually comes last: half-finished, built by whoever offered in 2019, or a Facebook group doing a job it was never meant for. That matters more than it seems, because the people you need to reach - donors, funders, volunteers, families looking for help - all check the website first. We know this sector from the inside: we built the site for The Bureau, a community volunteering charity that’s been improving lives for almost fifty years, and the brief is always the same. Look credible, make it obvious how to help, and don’t eat anyone’s evenings maintaining it.
What we build for charities and community groups
- Donations that actually work. We wire in whichever donation platform suits you - JustGiving, GoFundMe, PayPal Giving, or your own payment page - so giving is one tap on a phone, not a scavenger hunt. Gift Aid messaging included where it applies.
- Volunteer recruitment. A proper “get involved” page: what roles you need, what’s involved, and a form or contact that goes straight to the right person. If recruitment is your lifeblood, we build the site around it.
- Events and what’s-on. Coffee mornings, fixtures, fundraisers, sessions. Kept current - because a website advertising last year’s fun day quietly tells people you’ve folded.
- Funder-ready credibility. Grant applications get Googled. Trustees, aims, accounts, impact - laid out the way a funder expects to find them, with your charity or CIC number where it should be.
- The practical pages. Where you are, when you’re open, who to ring, safeguarding contacts, referral routes. For a lot of Blackpool charities the website’s most important visitor is someone who needs help right now.
Everything is built accessible and mobile-first - your audience includes people on old phones, slow connections and screen readers, and the site has to work for all of them.
A price a committee can say yes to
Nobody wants to stand up at the AGM and propose spending thousands on a website. Our package is £99 to set up, then £29.99 a month, and that covers design, hosting on our own UK servers, your domain, email addresses, security and 3 content edits a month. New trustees, a fresh fundraising appeal, this month’s events - message us and it goes up, already paid for. No surprise invoices to explain to the committee, and no relying on the one volunteer who knows how the old site works.
Getting found - and being believed
People search for help and for causes the same way they search for everything else: “food bank Blackpool”, “volunteering near me”, “youth football club Cleveleys”. We structure every charity site to show up for the searches that matter to you, with the structured data Google uses to understand a local organisation - the same search groundwork we build into every site, included rather than invoiced. Just as important is what people find when they’ve already heard of you - a funder checking you’re real, a parent checking you’re safe, a donor checking where the money goes. The website’s job is to settle all three in thirty seconds.
Questions charities ask us
We’re run by volunteers - who keeps the website up to date?
We do. 3 content edits a month are part of the monthly fee, so updates are a WhatsApp message, not a job for whoever’s least afraid of computers. When committee members change, nothing is lost - we’re still here.
Can you take donations through the site?
Yes - we integrate the donation platform you already use (JustGiving, GoFundMe, PayPal Giving and the like) so supporters give in a couple of taps. If you don’t have one yet, we’ll help you pick one with sensible fees.
We’re a small club, not a registered charity - is this still for us?
Absolutely. Sports clubs, residents’ associations, CICs, church groups - the same package works for any community organisation. If you do have a charity or CIC number, we’ll make sure it’s displayed properly.
Do we own the website?
The domain is registered in the organisation’s name from day one - not ours, and not any individual volunteer’s - and your content is always yours. Complete 12 months and the website and its files are the organisation’s to keep as well. Leave earlier and the build stays with us, but the domain and content still go with you (early domain transfer is a £15 admin charge). You can cancel any time with 30 days’ notice and there’s no exit fee.
How much does a charity website cost in Blackpool?
£99 to set up, then £29.99 a month, and that is the whole bill: bespoke design, UK hosting on our own servers, SSL, a .co.uk domain in the organisation’s name, business email, 3 content edits a month and support. Local SEO foundations and your Google Business Profile set-up are included too, so “food bank Blackpool” or “youth club Fleetwood” searches can find you. Most sites are live within a week of receiving your content. If you’d rather compare it against a one-off quote, the pricing page sets out exactly what is and isn’t in the fee.
Can members book sessions or pay for club events through the site?
Yes. Online bookings are a £9.99 a month add-on - useful for sports clubs, classes and community sessions where people need to reserve a place - and if you sell kit, tickets or memberships we can add an online shop for £19.99 a month with no commission on sales, just the card processing fees.
Ready when you are
Send us what you do and what you need more of - donations, volunteers, members, referrals - and we’ll tell you straight what a website can do about it.
If you’ve already got a website, start with the free website check - a minute, no email needed, and it’ll tell you honestly whether yours needs the work. If it does, rebuilding an old charity site on the monthly plan usually costs less than the committee expects.