Websites for not-for-profits and community organisations

Who this is for

Community groups, incorporated associations, charities and volunteer-run organisations across Darwin, Palmerston and the wider Northern Territory. Sporting clubs, service groups, arts and cultural organisations, support networks and the many small bodies that hold a community together without a paid communications officer.

Built for volunteer committees

The person looking after the website next year is probably not the person looking after it now. That single fact shapes everything: editing has to be simple enough to hand over with the role, and it cannot depend on one member's private knowledge of how the site works.

So content is edited in plain language through a straightforward admin area, the structure is obvious enough to follow without a manual, and support is there when a new secretary or publicity officer takes over mid-year.

Accessibility is not optional

Sites are built to WCAG 2.2 AA — contrast checked pair by pair, headings in real order for screen readers, visible keyboard focus, and layouts that hold together at 200% zoom or on a small phone.

For an organisation whose members span every age and ability, that is the difference between people using the site and quietly giving up on it. It also matters for grant and funding obligations, where accessibility commitments are increasingly something you are asked to demonstrate rather than assert.

Events, news and donations

Event listings are marked up with proper structured data, so a public event — a fundraiser, an open day, an annual general meeting — can appear as an event in search results rather than being buried in a paragraph.

News and notices are easy to post, so the site stays current between committee meetings. Where an organisation takes donations, memberships or ticket payments, donation and payment links can be built in and connected to the pages that need them.

Public versus members-only

Not everything belongs on the public internet. Content and events carry a visibility setting: a working bee, a committee meeting or a members-only activity stays internal, off the public pages, out of the sitemap and out of the structured data sent to search engines. The public side shows what you want the public to see, and nothing else.

Cost

There is no build fee. Not-for-profit and community organisations are offered reduced partnership rates on a predictable ongoing cost that covers hosting, security, backups, updates and support — a figure your committee can put in a budget and rely on.

Get in touch and you will get a quote for your organisation, in writing, before anything begins.