website design for charities & nonprofits
stand out ▴ build trust ▴ drive change
your mission is to make a difference...
To succeed, you must convey your unique strategic needs; communicate with your community, inspire participation, raise funds and more!
You need to broadcast your passion, integrity, and impact. You must be easy to find, accessible and credible, and foster engagement.
The bottom lline is that your website must work as hard as the people behind it, 24/7, and there is no room for failure, because every dollar counts!
for-good projects are our thing!
our passion for charities and nonprofits
We have a huge amount of experience in start-up, management, promotions and fundraising for charities, NGOs and purpose-driven organisations, large and small.
our business history
We enjoy long, trusted relationships with our nonprofit and charity website clients.
We produce winning websites, as well as website consulting, strategy and training for charities, NFP’s and NGO’s large and small, worldwide.
Our strategic, holistic website design process boosts credibility, visibility, fundraising efforts and community engagement.
Organisations-for-good, have a special place in our hearts, and our passion for accessibility has given us plenty of experience building websites to comply with the American Disabilities Act and the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
our passion projects
Collectively, our for-good projects include...
The creation and/or management of fundraising events for charities and NFPs in HK, Australia, India, Colombia and NZ.
Nationwide speaking and media engagements for youth mental health & addictions (Ireland).
Being blog ambassadors for World Vision (Australia), and communications director for an NGO dedicated to the elimination of modern slavery (Switzerland).
Founding two annual music events to promote racial harmony (Australia).
Filming 20+ mini documentaries that showcase the work of community, charity and conservation projects in South East Asia, Australia, NZ, South & Central America.
is your purpose driven website fulfilling its potential?
is it working for you?
If your website is hard to navigate, outdated, or buried in the search results, you are missing opportunities that help fulfil your mission.
Purpose driven organisations need to serve multiple audiences at once, and to fulfil these needs, your website team require a special set of skills and experience. Your website must:
- authentically capture the essence of your organisation,
- connect with those you serve,
- show accountability to funders and stakeholders,
- craft the narrative for media,
- educate policy makers,
- make you visible to each party in Google, and
- inspire potential donors, partners and the community to take action.
Your charity website will struggle to maximise opportunities without experienced guidance and support.
this is where we come in!
welcome to website alchemy!
we do websites differently
Website Alchemy is a small team with big hearts. We produce intentional, cohesive websites, and provide training, strategy and support to heart-based businesses, charities and not-for profits worldwide.
Our mission is to do things right the first time, and consistently deliver websites that work. We call it “Holistic Website Design”, guiding organisations as we combine the perfect mix of engaging human content, authentic messaging, beautiful design and SEO.
"Our website was completely outdated, slow, boring to look at and just didn't offer a good or great user experience. No one wanted to share our website as it was embarrassing.
It's been a complete change for us — not only is it aesthetically appealing, it's user friendly and we have way more engagement. We are proud to direct people there and utilise it as a platform for showcasing all we do. People love our new website; they go there and spend time learning about our services and submitting forms to reach us. We even know media checks in on our website as they email to ask about services and news!
Website Alchemy is so easy to work with and they are ethical — so hard to find these days! You don't need to worry about them overcharging or overdoing the lingo to confuse you. They are real and transparent. Super easy. Super real. The team are responsive and support with all the questions you have or tweaks you need.
We honestly think we need more agencies like you, that keep it real and don't price gouge."
Chantelle Hunter - Head of Marketing & Communications
Western Bay of Plenty PHO
our website clients include:
do you need your organisation to shine online?
we specialise in websites that...
inspire action
Tell your story with heart and humanity. When you create intuitive connections with your audience, participation will feel like the natural next step.
create community
An intentional blend of engaging content and seamless tech to attract and embrace your community, and keep them coming back.
are accessible first
Accessibility built into the fabric of your website, content, design and tech. Help your website visitors engage with confidence and ease.
reach more people
Strategic SEO and content marketing, with no tricks, to ensure you are visible when it matters.
drive donations
Inspiring storytelling, and seamless, user-friendly donation processes that make giving easy.
feel uniquely you
Your website needs to capture your cause beautifully, clearly reflecting your values and vision on every page.
“the website alchemy team has an intuitive gift for capturing
the magic of what you do...”
we understand your challenges
now, let us help you reach your goals!
Are we the team you are looking for?
If you are ready to take your non profit or charity website to the next level, let’s talk! Book a time to connect and see if we are a good fit.
"Website Alchemy were absolutely amazing. They helped me to do a complete overhaul of the Burdekin website — with a branding, logo and domain change, strategy for SEO and accessability and culling it from approximately 300 web pages down to 70 web pages.
They were with me on every step of the journey to upgrade the Burdekin website to the glorious website it is now.
The new website has helped attract volunteers (both individuals and corporates) and potential foster carers to approach us directly. We have already conducted two substantial corporate impact days as a consequence. Since launching, 36 Foster Care forms and 7 Volunteer forms have been submitted through the website — and we are still measuring these outcomes, but have been delighted with the results so far.
The FAQs have been very useful as information sources for website visitors, as have the forms to measure how effective the website is in attracting volunteers, donors and foster carers. Also, the power of great images! The brief they gave us for our photoshoot — was worth its weight in gold.
Absolutely amazing, supportive, thoughtful, thorough, expert knowledge, great guidance prior, during and after. You did everything you could to support me. Thank you for your efforts!"
Neva Poole-Marketing Communications Manager
Burdekin (formerly: The Burdekin Association)
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"We needed a database driven web solution for Koala Rescue that could work within our core website. We had been working long-term with an offline database that was difficult to be even close to real time data.
Website Alchemy created this inside our core website, and we now have a functioning online system that gives us our data real time. This has allowed 3 operational teams to share data and the responsibility for the data. As a result everyone in the organisation now have all relevant information at their fingertips. Duplication of effort has been removed, and the benefits are being felt across the organisation.
As a result my role has shifted to managing data quality completely offsite. I receive a lot of positive feedback and the teams are more open to collecting and correcting data so that we all work together. Much of this is becoming organic already as the system is simple to use and the uptake has been high.
There was clear communication through both email, texts and video meetings whenever needed. Website Alchemy were open to all our needs, even as we changed some of these during the process.
Thank you so much for being so available to make a very new type of project work so well. I would work with you again any time!"
Katrina Jeffery-Data Coordinator
Friends of the Koala
organisation or organization? our spelling disclaimer!!
We are from New Zealand, Ireland, Australia, Portugal, USA, Malaysia and Hong Kong, and there are only four of us! We have experience with the subtleties of English spelling and language in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. If you live in the States or are used to seeing US-centric spelling, no fear! We dance in that sphere with ease and grace, and… on this website, we let NZ English shine.