Websites for Charities | Donations & Trust

A charity website has to earn something no business site does: trust with someone’s money when they get nothing tangible in return. Before anyone donates, volunteers or refers a family to you, they check that you’re genuine, that their money does what you say, and that giving is quick and safe. If the site looks amateur, hides its registration details or buries the donate button, well-meaning people hesitate and the moment passes. Your website’s job is to show clearly who you help, prove you’re legitimate, and make giving effortless.

So we lead with your cause in plain, human terms and the difference donations actually make, then make your credibility unmissable: your registered charity name and Charity Commission number, and your Fundraising Regulator registration if you have it. Then the donate route, front and centre and working smoothly, linked to your chosen platform so Gift Aid and receipts are handled properly. Add ways to volunteer, fundraise or get help, and the site works for supporters and beneficiaries alike.

Many charities get exactly what they need from a fast, single-page site: cause, impact, credentials, a clear donate button and ways to help, live in about five working days from £99, with a real person in Sussex to call. If you run large appeals, an events calendar, a shop or a full members’ and volunteers’ area, that’s a bigger build and we quote it per project. We keep donations flowing through proven platforms rather than reinventing payment handling, so your supporters stay on tools they already trust.

The mistakes that quietly cost charities donations tend to be about trust and effort. Hiding the registered charity number and the credentials that prove you’re accountable, which leaves a cautious donor unsure. Making people hunt for the donate button, or sending them through too many clicks before they can give, so the moment of goodwill passes. And talking in mission-statement language about “empowering communities” instead of saying plainly who you help and what a gift actually does. We build the opposite: credentials visible, donating a single easy step, and your cause and impact told in words a supporter feels rather than skims past.

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What It Needs

What your website needs to bring in work

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Your cause, in plain words

Who you help and why it matters, told simply and honestly. People give to a cause they understand and feel, not to a mission statement full of jargon.

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An easy way to donate

A clear donate button that works, linked to a trusted platform so Gift Aid and receipts are handled properly. Every extra click between intention and donation costs you gifts.

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Charity Commission number

Your registered name and Charity Commission number shown plainly, with your Fundraising Regulator registration where you have it. Visible credentials are what turn a cautious visitor into a donor.

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Impact people can see

What donations actually achieve, in concrete terms and real stories. “£25 provides X” beats a vague plea every time, because it shows a donor exactly what their money does.

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Volunteer & fundraise

Clear routes to give time as well as money, and to run a fundraiser for you. Many supporters can’t give much cash but will happily give hours, if you make it easy to offer.

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A clear way to get help

If you support people directly, they need to find help quickly and privately, without wading through fundraising appeals. We give beneficiaries their own calm, obvious route in.

How It Works

Three steps. That’s it.

No jargon, no committees, no six-week timelines. We get your area businesses online fast.

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Tell us about your business

A quick call or email. What you do, where you work, your contact details. That’s all we need to get started.

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We build your site

We design and write everything a professional one-page website with your services, area, and contact info. Ready for review within days.

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You’re live

Domain registered, hosting sorted, site live. You focus on the work we keep everything running.

Don’t Just Take Our Word For It

What our clients say

Real businesses we’ve helped get online. Real feedback.

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A much bigger project than a typical small business site, and Nick handled it brilliantly. Multiple pages, interactive guides, the lot. Fast, well built, and he understood exactly what we needed as a technology consultancy. Couldn’t be happier with the result.

Paul SmithC4C Group, Technology Consultancy

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Nick at Page Forge built our site in under a week. It looks proper professional and we’ve started getting enquiries from the website itself. Straight-talking, no nonsense, just gets on with it.

Phoenix PilingPiling Contractors, Sussex, Surrey & London

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Page Forge sorted out our website, hosting and email in one go. No tech headaches, no waiting around. The site looks the part and customers actually find us on Google now. Properly recommend.

BW ElectricalElectricians, Hassocks

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Nick is a pleasure to work with, very informative, professional and quick to respond. Absolutely love the website that he has produced for me. Highly recommended.

SteveOilfire Heating, Uckfield

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Fantastic service. They listened to what we needed and wanted as a business, suggested ways to increase productivity and have provided 100% support. Couldn’t recommend highly enough.

EmilyRuby’s Bakery, Burgess Hill

Our Work

Sites we’ve built

A look at some recent client work. Click through to see them live.

Multi-Page Project

C4C Group

A larger multi-page build for an enterprise technology consultancy. Multiple service sections, in-depth interactive guides and a lead-generation toolset, all built for speed and search performance.

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Building Contractors

Sindall Building

A multi-page site for a Haywards Heath building firm with 200+ 10/10 Checkatrade reviews. Premium, fast and fully optimised for both Google and AI search.

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Tilers

Prestige Tiling

A professional multi-page site for a Burgess Hill wall and floor tiler with 25+ years’ experience, after Wix and Squarespace could not do their work justice. Tiling is a visual trade, so a proper gallery puts the finished work front and centre.

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FCA Regulated

Clermont Mortgage

An FCA-compliant website for an independent Essex mortgage broker. Regulatory status, risk warnings, fee disclosure and complaints information all built in, written in plain English and approved by the principal firm’s compliance team.

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Heating Engineers

Oilfire Heating

A confident site for an Uckfield oil boiler engineer who is also a qualified electrician, so boiler and wiring are sorted in one visit. Built to turn local searches into calls.

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Bakery

Ruby's Bakery

A refreshed, faster website for an award-winning Burgess Hill family bakery, off a slow Wix site, with a managed product catalogue we keep current for them.

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Electricians

BW Electrical

Lime-green branding for an NICEIC-certified Hassocks-based electrical contractor. Clean, trustworthy design with clear service breakdown and instant contact options.

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Piling Contractors

Phoenix Piling

Bold dark and fire-orange palette built to convey strength and reliability. Targets piling services across Sussex, Surrey and London with WhatsApp Business integration.

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Live Band

The Vests

Playful retro design for a Hassocks-based covers band playing Britpop, classic rock and indie anthems. Bold sunburst hero, setlist and gig listings, with an easy booking call-to-action.

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Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

No hidden fees, no long contracts. The prices below are our starting point for a standard website.

Monthly Forge

From£29/month

+ £99 one-off setup fee

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Annual Forge

From£299/year

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Prices are a starting point for a standard website. Bigger projects, such as lots of products, custom features or ongoing work, are quoted to match, so you only ever pay for what you need.

FAQ

Common questions

Do you handle donations and Gift Aid?

We connect your site to a trusted donation platform that handles card payments, Gift Aid and receipts properly, rather than building payment handling from scratch. That keeps your supporters on tools they already recognise and trust, and keeps the compliance side in safe, proven hands. Whether you use a dedicated fundraising platform or a payment provider you already have, we make the donate button prominent and the path to giving as short as possible. Fewer clicks between the decision to give and the gift landing means more donations actually completed.

Why does our Charity Commission number matter on the site?

Because it’s proof you’re a registered, accountable charity, and cautious donors look for it. We show your registered name and Charity Commission number clearly, along with your Fundraising Regulator registration if you have one. Visible credentials do a lot of quiet work turning interest into a gift. Sadly, fake appeals are common enough that thoughtful donors check, and a charity that displays its number openly signals it has nothing to hide. It’s a small detail that makes a real difference to whether a first-time visitor trusts you with their money.

How do we show donors their money makes a difference?

With concrete impact, not vague appeals. We help you frame what specific amounts achieve and tell a few real stories of the difference you make. “£25 provides a week of X” is far more persuasive than “please give generously”, because the donor can picture the result. A short, honest story about one person or family you’ve helped often does more than any statistic, because people give to people. We give your impact and your stories a clear place near the donate button, where they turn goodwill into an actual gift.

Can the site help us find volunteers too?

Yes. Plenty of supporters can give time even when they can’t give much money, but only if you make offering easy. We add a clear volunteering section with a simple way to get in touch, so the website recruits helpers as well as donations. Spelling out the roles you need and roughly what each involves gets a far better response than a general call for volunteers. Many of your most committed future supporters start by giving a few hours, so making that first step easy is genuinely worth the space on the page.

We run appeals, events and a shop. Can you build all that?

We can, though it goes beyond the standard one-page site. Big appeals, an events calendar, an online shop or a volunteers’ area are a larger build, so we quote them per project. Many charities start with a strong, trusted core site and add these as funding and need allow. There’s no sense spending restricted funds on features you don’t yet need, so we’d rather get your core site earning donations first and grow it in step with the charity. When you are ready for a fundraising campaign page or an events calendar, we scope it to fit the budget you have.

Websites for charities that people trust enough to give.