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Charity and community group website

A website for a charity, food bank, rescue or community group: who you help, how to get help, and ways to volunteer or give.

A charity or community group website has two audiences at once. Some visitors need help and want to know, quickly and without fuss, how to get it. Others want to help and are looking for a way to volunteer, donate or spread the word. A clear website serves both, and saves your volunteers from answering the same questions again and again.

What to put on a charity website

  • What you do, in one sentence. "We give free food parcels to families in the north of the city" says more than a mission statement.
  • How to get help. When and where, who can come, what to bring and whether a referral is needed. Keep it kind and plain, and say clearly if no one needs to prove anything.
  • Ways to help. Volunteer roles with the time they take, the items you need most this month, and how to give money.
  • Your impact. A few honest numbers: parcels given, animals rehomed, people supported last year.
  • Stories. A short story from a volunteer, a family or a rehomed pet, shared with their permission.
  • A sign-up or inquiry form. For volunteers, adoptions or questions. Each message from a published Kodebloc website lands in your Messages inbox and in your email, so a small team can keep track.

Tips for your request

  1. Give the real times and places. Session times, drop-off points and addresses matter most to the people you help. If you leave them out, the AI writes sample ones that you must replace.
  2. Ask for warm but dignified words. People asking for help should feel welcome, not pitied.
  3. Split it into pages for the two audiences. For example Home, Get help and Give, so each visitor finds their part quickly.
  4. Link to how people give. Kodebloc websites can't take card payments, so link a Donate button to the donation page you already use, or explain how to give by bank transfer or in person.

Start from a ready-made charity website

Open either of these as your own copy: a community food bank with session times, what goes in a parcel, the most needed items and a volunteer sign-up form, or an animal rescue with adoptable dogs and cats, adoption steps and an adoption inquiry form. Their names, numbers and places are made up, so put in yours before you publish. See all templates.

Requests ready to build

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Request
“A website for Riverside Repair Cafe, a volunteer group that fixes broken things for free once a month. Friendly and hands-on, what we can fix, the next dates and the venue, what to bring, how to volunteer as a fixer, our numbers from last year and a volunteer sign-up form.”
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“A website for a charity that gives school uniforms to families who need them. Warm and dignified, how to ask for uniform without any forms to prove anything, our drop-off points, the sizes we need most, how to support us and a form for families to request items.”
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“A one-page website for a community garden. Green and cheerful, what we grow, workdays every Saturday morning, how to get a plot, our rules in plain words, photos of the garden through the year and a form to join the waiting list for a plot.”
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Spread the word

Share the link on posters, in newsletters and on social media. Set the name and picture people see when the link is shared in share your website. When a session time changes or you need a different item, update the live website and everyone with the link sees it.

Kodebloc is free while in beta.

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