Bundles of Hope: Charity Website
A warm, welcoming website for a community charity — built to help families find support easily, encourage referrals and volunteers, and make donating simple.
Project brief.
Bundles of Hope is a Long Eaton community charity that provides free baby and children's clothing, nappies and essentials to families with young children. They needed a friendly, reassuring website that helps families in need find help without stigma, makes it easy for health professionals to refer, and encourages donations and volunteers. We approached Bundles of Hope ourselves. They are a local charity, and we build websites free of charge for small local charities as a way of giving back to the community. It has been a pleasure working with them and the relationship is ongoing.
The technology we used on this project.
A lightweight, dependable stack chosen to keep the site fast, secure and simple for the charity to maintain.
Design
Frontend
Backend / CMS
Hosting & Tools
Challenges & Solutions
Every project has a few problems to solve. Here is what we ran into on this build and how we handled it.
Doing it for free, properly
Pro bono should not mean cut-price. We approached the charity, built the site free of charge, and gave it the same design, SEO and hosting care as any paying project — because a charity's website has to work just as hard as anyone else's.
Helping families without stigma
Asking for help is hard. We used warm, plain, non-judgemental language and a gentle design so families feel welcome, and made the drop-in times and what's on offer clear and easy to find.
Serving three audiences at once
The site needed to speak to families, health professionals referring them, and donors and volunteers. We gave each a clear path from the homepage so everyone finds what they need quickly.
Keeping it easy and low-cost to run
As a charity, budget and time are tight. We kept the build lightweight and set up a simple CMS so volunteers can update opening times, appeals and news themselves without any technical help.
Resources used to build this project.
A small, focused team — the right people, no bloat.
Core features.
For charities, tone matters as much as design — warm, reassuring language is often what gives a family the confidence to reach out and ask for help.
Glimpse of the project
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