Charity partnership needs some free WordPress help!
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Hi all
I’m a Development Officer for a partnership of three family counselling and mediation charities in Lanarkshire, Scotland. We’re interested in setting up a new website to promote the work of the partnership, we’re particularly keen on a WordPress install as it seems the easiest to set-up and update ourselves. Without pleading poverty, we really don’t have the money to pay a designer, the services we offer are free of charge and they’re expensive to run; training a volunteer counsellor costs £3500! We’re largely volunteer led and rely heavily on donations to keep the three services running. You know what’s coming next…
We’re looking to work with a webdesigner to create a WordPress theme that will look and feel like a standard website, not like a blog. It won’t need to do terribly much, simply provide a few pages on the counselling and mediation services we offer, have a news page, a contact page, a bit where we can upload Word documents for people to download, such as referral forms, etc and the ability to capture users’ email addresses for a mailing list would be great.
We’re more than happy to use an existing free template and having it tweaked a little, we can supply all the necessary logos, photos, blurb, etc. We’re fairly open when it comes to the overall colour scheme, although it would be nice to have a random image generator on the header, as with the Cutline theme (I’ve been having a nosey at the various themes out there!).
This would be an ideal opportunity for a newbie designer to build their portfolio or an existing designer to feel warm and fuzzy about doing some work for charity. You’ll be allowed a permanent link to your design portfolio/site at the footer of each page. More importantly, each of the three charities involved is a member of a national umbrella body, we’ll be mailing out the website launch info and a link to members across the country, giving your work some serious exposure indeed.
So if you’ve got the time to tweak an existing WordPress theme for a charity partnership please get in touch!
PS: I’ll give the full names and charity numbers of our three organisations at the request of anyone who replies.
PPS: We’re not sure whether to go for wordpress.org OR wordpress.com, I understand the differences between the two and we’d probably be happy to go for either, whatever you’re comfortable using!
Cheers
Ross
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I also created a charity site on WordPress.com (after getting permission from support) and used the Blix theme. It turned out pretty well for a free site. The charity did purchase a domain name, so it looks like a real website. I kept the blog page as the main page and they use it for updates/news, while other information appears on static pages.
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I’ll add it to the lists, cheers for that!
Nrepair…like your site mate, do you have a link to the one you created using the Blix theme? Do you think you’d be interested in helping out our charity?
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Im not sure how much time I’ll have available next month, but if you don’t find anyone else I’d love to help.
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