Build & Design

Not just a review. The thing itself, made well from the start.

Websites, systems and brand identity, built and designed by people who care how they hold up. Whether you're starting from nothing or replacing something that no longer fits, we make the thing properly, then explain it in plain English.

An audit tells you what's wrong with a site you already have. But plenty of small organisations don't have one yet, or have one that's holding them back rather than helping.

That's the other half of what we do: building and designing from scratch. New websites, the systems behind them, and the brand identity that makes them feel like you. Fixed scope, built by hand rather than churned out by a tool, and yours to own and run at the end.

A cheap site or a rushed logo feels like a saving right up until it quietly costs you the people you were trying to reach. Made well the first time, it just works, and keeps working.

What we build

The technical side: the website, and the moving parts behind it that keep it running without you having to think about them.

New websites

A site built around the people you serve and the things you need it to do, from a single clear page to a full multi-section presence. Fast, findable and easy to live with.

Custom development

The hands-on building. Clean, standards-based code that loads quickly, behaves on real devices, and won't trap you in something only we can maintain.

eCommerce builds

Online shops that take payment safely and securely, easy for customers to navigate and use. Set up so you can manage products and orders yourselves, without a developer on call.

Systems integration

Joining your site to the tools you already use, be it donations, bookings, mailing lists, payments, so things talk to each other instead of creating more manual work.

AI integration

Practical use of AI where it genuinely helps, like smarter search or drafting support, added with care so it serves your people rather than replacing the human touch.

Custom WordPress plugins & themes

When an off-the-shelf plugin almost fits but not quite, we build the missing piece properly, so you get exactly what you need without a pile of bloat you don't.

What we design

The look and feel: how you come across, on screen and on paper, so people recognise you and trust you before they've read a word.

Brand identity

The whole picture of how you present yourself: the look, the tone, the feel, shaped so it fits who you actually are rather than a template.

Logo design

A clear, distinctive mark that works as well on a phone screen as on a banner, and still reads at the size of a stamp.

Style guides

Simple rules for your colours, type and logo so everything you make stays consistent, whether we make it or you do.

Layout & publication design

Reports, leaflets, programmes and printed materials laid out to be read and to look like they belong to you.

Social media design

Templates and assets for your channels so every post looks consistent and unmistakably yours, without starting from a blank canvas each time.

Web design

How the site looks and flows: the layout, the colour, the typography, designed to be clear and welcoming as well as good-looking.

Built in from the start

Whatever we make, online or off, the same four qualities are part of it from day one rather than bolted on later. They're also the four things our Audit checks.

Accessibility

Made so everyone can use it: disabled, older and less digitally confident people included. We design and build to WCAG 2.2 AA, not as an afterthought.

Security

Sensible, safe foundations: solid hosting, current dependencies, no risky shortcuts. The boring things done right so nothing quietly goes wrong later.

Findability

Structured so the right people can actually find you, in search and across the wider web, with the signals search engines and screen readers both rely on in place from the off.

Performance

Light and quick on the modest phones and patchy connections your audience really uses, because a site nobody waits for is a site nobody sees.

No lock-in and no hard sell. You own what we make and can run it yourselves, or keep us around for the parts you'd rather not. We're a CIC, we're optimised for delivering value; not for the next sale.

Got something to build or design?

Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll get back to you within a couple of days with how we'd approach it.