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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Christine L. Chiu |Mary Wessel |Ioan Marc Jones |Joe Lepper
Not just for charities on a small budget, website builders offer low-cost solutions with nearly as much creativity as going custom. We look at the best website builders out there and what works best for different needs. Website builders for beginnersFor charities starting out or charities who have limited experience web-building, going with a platform that offers templates, no coding, and a user-friendly interface is best. Here are some of our favourites for beginners.
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2 weeks ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Joe Lepper |Ioan Marc Jones |Christine L. Chiu
How AI is changing service delivery in 202510 Apr 2025by Josie SparlingWe explore how charity service users are impacted by artificial intelligence in 2025, including through AI transparency, literacy, bias, environmental impacts, and moreYou have viewed all of your 1 articles as an unregistered userTo continue reading this article please register. For unlimited access to our free content, please register.
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2 weeks ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Joe Lepper |Christine L. Chiu |Kellie E. Smith
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a buzzword. In 2025, it’s rapidly becoming understood as a practical tool that can help charities do more with less. For charity leaders, the challenge is understanding exactly how. In this insightful webinar, we’ll explore how AI is reshaping the charity sector and what it means for charity leaders looking to stay ahead.
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2 weeks ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Ioan Marc Jones |Christine L. Chiu |Kellie E. Smith |Mary Wessel
This artificial intelligence (AI) policy guides Charity Digital (CD) employee use of AI, aligning it with the mission and ethical standards of CD. The CD AI policy ensures employees maximise the use of AI and mitigate the risks. The policy encourages AI experimentation and exploration, while ensuring that AI users remain mindful of any potential risks and issues that might arise.
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2 weeks ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Ioan Marc Jones |Mary Wessel |Christine L. Chiu |Laura Stanley
We explore the fundamentals of video content creation, the best ways to plan and prepare, the best cameras and equipment to use, how to write an engaging script, the top tips and tricks for editing videos, the basics of user-generated video content, and so much more High-quality video content has grown in popularity over the past decade. Consider, for example, that users currently consume one billion hours of YouTube video each day.
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2 weeks ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Ioan Marc Jones |Christine L. Chiu |Laura Stanley
Taking on a trustee role at a small charity can be a rewarding experience. But there are a number of challenges that small charity trustees face that are different to those who volunteer with larger charities. It’s important for people who are considering a trusteeship role to be aware of the challenges so they can fulfil the responsibilities of being a trustee and effectively support the small charity. UK charities with an income below £100,000 make up over 80% of the sector.
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4 weeks ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Christine L. Chiu |Jenny Phipps |Laura Stanley |Kellie E. Smith
Three essential strategies for cyber security28 Mar 2025by Christine ChiuWe explore three different cyber security strategies to help charities understand the different logics behind robust cyber protectionYou have viewed all of your 1 articles as an unregistered userTo continue reading this article please register. For unlimited access to our free content, please register.
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1 month ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith |Christine L. Chiu
Charities are facing reduced funding, rising costs, and an . Working efficiently is crucial if they are to deliver, and continue to deliver, services for those they support. One way of doing this is to work collaboratively with another charity (or charities) to deliver services. What are the benefits of partnering on services? Partnering with other charities on service delivery is an increasingly important way of providing the best possible support.
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1 month ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Christine L. Chiu |Jenny Phipps |Mary Wessel
Accelerator programmes have a certain mystique about them. This is especially true if early-stage companies emerge from them as darlings of the tech world. There’s also financial value in digital acceleration. The start-up world in the UK is worth over £839 billion, making it the third-most valuable tech environment after the US and China. In fact, it’s so promising that Google Cloud last year announced its new accelerator programme called Cloud Start-up Hub, based in London.
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1 month ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Kellie E. Smith |Christine L. Chiu |Laura Stanley
A bottleneck is any situation where an individual person or a group of staff can’t move their work forward. A particular point in the process is obstructed, which causes the project to slow down or stop. For example, a member of a communications team can’t finish a newsletter on time because they spend a lot of time in meetings. It can happen regularly, for example, because of poor planning or limited resources, or as a one-off, such as someone being unwell and off work.
