Free to Charities

Free Web Sites!

You supply the content for the web site and we will develop, host and maintain it for your organisation -
completely free of charge

Visit some of the web sites that we have developed for charities and voluntary organisations in these countries -

	Botswana		Cameroon
	Ghana		Kenya
	Pakistan		Scotland
	Uganda		United Kingdom

About our service

The service is provided for charities and voluntary organisations that need a web site. We create new web sites from the text and graphic images provided by organisations. We do not host or maintain already existing web sites.

Web site content
We can receive text and photos for your organisation's web site by e-mail, with the text in Microsoft Word, RTF or plain text formats. Adobe pdf files can also be used for visitors to download. Your text should be organised so that it can be split into separate web pages such as About us, Activities, News, Events, Volunteering, Donating, Links etc.

Where possible we would like a relevant good quality photo for each web page to illustrate the text on that page. If more photos are required then please set up your own photo album at Flickr (Yahoo). We will include a link to your photo album on the web site.

The web site may contain forms, links to other web sites, e-mail addresses and other services such as photo albums by Flickr (Yahoo), discussion forums at Invisionfree, Online credit/debit card donations at Charity Choice (free to UK registered charities) and Paypal (available in many countries).

Web site address
The web site will have an address of the form "www.freetocharities.org.uk/code", where the code is usually the initials of your organisation, and is allocated by us. However you can purchase your own domain name from any domain name reseller to forward to :- "http://www.freetocharities.org.uk/code/index.php"

Updating the web site
You may request changes and additions to the web site once per month. Please be sure that your updating instructions make clear which web site pages are to be changed and exactly where the insertions and deletions are required.

Web site visitors
There are 234 million web sites in the world (December 2009), so your organisation's web site will not be noticed unless you promote/publicise it. We recommend that you do the following :-

include the web site's address on your letter headings, notices, advertisements, at the bottom of all of your e-mails.
notify your users, members, volunteers and sponsors of the web site. Keep it up to date, and use it to communicate with perhaps a newsletters and an event list.
request sympathetic organisations to include a link to the web site in their web site. You can search google for "www.freetocharities.org.uk" to see various organisations that already have links to web sites that we have developed.

Most of our web sites have more than 50 visitors each month, but this can only be achieved by you spending time and effort to promote/publicise the web site. We only continue to maintain and host web sites with visitors. A web site without any visitors for a full month will be regarded as abandoned, and after one warning will be deleted.

Donations
If your organisation requests donations, sponsorship or fees then we require a clear and readable electronic copy of the organisation's official Certificate of Registration issued by the relevant Government Ministry, or for UK charities the organisation's UK Charity Commission registration number. This evidence of your organisation's legitimacy will be displayed on the web site.

Applying for a free web site
If your organisation's management committee would like to use our service, and agrees to actively promote/publicise the web site, then please complete the application form and click the send button.

Organisation's name
Postal address
Telephone number
E-mail address
Management Committee Chairman's name
Charitable services provided by the organisation
UK registered charity number (if applicable)
Contact's name
Job title