A mission people grasp quickly
Clear sections for what you do, who it helps, and why it matters, written for the supporter skimming on a bus.
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Give your cause a site people trust.
People give to causes they trust, and trust is checked online by donors, grant-makers, and volunteers alike. Pendro gives small charities and community organisations a credible, current website without eating the budget: your mission stated clearly, your impact in real numbers, and sign-up forms that turn goodwill into help.
Free plan forever. No credit card to start.
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The whole stack
Everything you need to run it.
Tell the story, take the donations, and keep supporters informed, without a volunteer becoming the webmaster.
What your site needs
The three jobs your website must do.
Impact you can point to
Stats bands for meals delivered, families housed, or hours volunteered, and story sections for the people behind the numbers.
A way to say yes
Volunteer and supporter forms that capture availability and interests, plus a newsletter that keeps your community engaged between campaigns.
Made for charities & nonprofits
The right sections, ready to drop in.
- Statsimpact in numbers funders trust
- Testimonialsstories from the people you help
- Volunteer formavailability + interests to your inbox
- Newsletter signupsupporters, kept close
Try this briefExample
“Community food bank in Bradford, weekly collections and deliveries, run by forty volunteers”
You get a draft that states the mission first, room for the impact numbers you can evidence, and a volunteer form that asks for availability.
It starts from a template made for the trade. Here that is Nonprofit, the one rendered live at the top of this page.
Write your own briefAn example, not a live demo. Nothing runs on this page.
Why it works
A website that does the whole job.
A small charity's website has three audiences with three questions. Supporters ask whether the cause is real and whether their contribution matters, which impact numbers, transparent goals, and stories told with dignity answer. Grant-makers and corporate partners ask whether the organisation is competent, and judge that largely by how professional the site feels. The people you serve ask whether you can help and how to ask, which needs plain-language pages that work on an old phone.
The practical problem Pendro solves is capacity. Most community organisations have no budget line for a web agency and no volunteer who wants to inherit a fragile hand-built site. Here anyone on the team can update the site from a browser: post the appeal, change the collection times, publish the annual impact report as a page rather than a buried PDF. Volunteer forms capture availability and skills, and the free plan means a usable web presence costs the cause nothing.
Every plan starts free — see what each plan includes.
WordPress is the reflex recommendation for charities, and the comparison is candid about the trade: more freedom and more plugins, against a maintenance burden that eventually lands on one volunteer. Read the full Pendro vs WordPress comparison, or see how Pendro measures up against Wix, Squarespace and Framer.
Templates
Start from a template made for your trade.
Questions
Asked by charities & nonprofits.
Can people donate through the site?
Point your donate buttons at whichever giving platform you already use. The site's job is to make the case and link to it. Volunteer sign-ups, contact, and newsletter growth all happen on your pages, so the case and the ask sit together.
Is there charity pricing?
The free plan is free permanently: a real site with your story, your impact, and your sign-up forms, not a trial. Many community organisations never need more. Paid plans from $12 a month add a custom domain and more pages when you do.
Several volunteers help with our comms. Can they all edit?
Yes. You can share access, and the design system keeps the site looking consistent no matter who edits. Nobody needs web skills beyond filling in a form, so the rota can change without the site suffering for it.
Do we need to worry about accessibility?
You should, and much of it is handled for you: semantic markup, readable contrast in the theme presets, keyboard-navigable menus, and pages that work on an old phone. The rest is yours: write in plain language, describe your images, and put important information on a page rather than inside a PDF.
Free to start
Live by tonight.
Looking designed.
No card, no time limit. One site free forever, and nothing you change can make it look undesigned.