// NOT FOR PROFIT WEBSITE DESIGN
Websites for Australian charities and community organisations that help people find support, share their stories or get involved. We have built for both Gulf Youth and Community Service and Your Story, My Story. You get a fixed scope and price before work starts.
// WHY IT IS DIFFERENT
A young person looking for support, a parent making a referral and a funder checking your programs should each find the right next step. GYCS shows its programs and referral paths separately, so visitors can go straight to the information they need.
Your funding is granted for a period and has to be acquitted, so an open-ended monthly retainer is the wrong shape for the money you actually hold. Next year's budget is not guaranteed either, which makes being locked into a builder you cannot leave a genuine risk.
You are also regulated in a way a business is not. If you are registered with the ACNC, the details on your site should line up with the ACNC Charity Register. If you hold DGR endorsement, your donation page can say gifts are tax deductible. If you do not, it must not hint that they are.
Your board or committee also needs to approve what the site says and what it costs. We provide a defined scope for that decision, then give reviewers a staging link to check the work before launch.
// WHAT'S INCLUDED
Websites start from $1,500 + GST for a single page, and a full multi-page conversion website starts from $2,800 + GST. The full price list is public, so you can put a real number in a funding application without ringing us first.
Programs, eligibility, referrals and support options are easy to find without making someone search through a PDF.
A donation, volunteer enquiry, story submission or partner enquiry gets the explanation and form it needs.
Built to WCAG guidelines from the first line of markup: strong contrast, real text, keyboard operation, visible focus and labelled forms.
Your programs written so a service user, a family member and a grant assessor all understand them without a glossary.
Hand-coded and edge-hosted, so the site opens quickly in a community centre, on a remote connection, or on an old handset.
What you run, who it is for and how to access it, on the page instead of buried in a downloadable PDF.
// WORK WITH COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS
The useful next step depends on the organisation. These projects show how we built around the people using each site.
Live website
Built for Sabrina’s Reach4Life Inc. The site gives young people a way to share a story, read others’ experiences and find support resources. Storytelling, safety guidance and donations each have a separate path.
Visit Your Story, My StoryDraft preview
Built for a community organisation working in Borroloola and Robinson River. The preview organises programs by life stage and offers distinct routes to get support, make a referral and see local activities. Content and approvals are still being finalised.
View the GYCS preview// ACCESSIBILITY
The people your programs serve are far more likely than the general population to include someone with a disability. That is often the whole point of the organisation.
The Disability Discrimination Act applies to information and services delivered online, and the Australian Human Rights Commission's web access advisory notes point to WCAG as the practical benchmark. Funders are starting to ask about it in reporting too.
So we build to WCAG guidelines from the start rather than bolting on an overlay widget at the end. The same discipline is on show on our NDIS website design page, built for providers whose visitors arrive with a wide range of access needs.
To be straight with you: we hold no accessibility certification and we are not lawyers. We build carefully and we tell you what we checked. If a funder wants a formal WCAG conformance audit signed by a specialist, that is a different job and we will point you at it.
// VISITOR PATHS
GYCS visitors can find a program or make a referral. Your Story, My Story visitors can read a story, submit one or find a support resource. Your website should follow the decisions people actually come to make.
// PATH ONE
// PATH TWO
We agree which actions matter to your organisation before the build, then create the pages, forms and tracking around those actions.
// DGR AND ACNC
This is the compliance detail a generic web designer will miss, because it never comes up on a plumbing site. It is the first thing we ask about.
If you hold DGR endorsement. Eligible gifts of $2 or more are tax deductible to the donor. The page can say so plainly, the deduction should be easy to understand rather than buried, and the automated receipt needs the correct details on it. Done well, this lifts average gift size on its own.
If you do not hold it. Nothing on the page may imply a donation is deductible. Not the heading, not the reassurance line under the button, not the small print, and not the emailed receipt. Copy pasted from another charity's site is the usual way this goes wrong.
If you are ACNC registered. Your legal name, ABN and the basics on the site should match the ACNC Charity Register. A careful donor or a grant assessor checks the register, and a mismatch reads as carelessness at best.
We ask about your status at the start and build the donation flow to match it. We are not tax advisers, so we do not advise on getting or keeping DGR endorsement. Confirm the status on ABN Lookup or with your accountant, tell us, and we build to that.
Under the donate buttonExample
DGR endorsed
Gifts of $2 or more are tax deductible. Your receipt is emailed straight away.
Not endorsed
Thank you. Every dollar goes to our programs. Your receipt is emailed straight away.
// AD GRANT READY
Google Ad Grants gives eligible nonprofits up to US$10,000 a month in Google Search advertising. The ads are free. Qualifying is not automatic, and your website is part of what gets assessed, so a thin or broken site quietly costs you the largest marketing budget you will ever be offered.
Google also wants the domain in your organisation's name with a valid HTTPS certificate. You own the domain and we serve everything over HTTPS as standard, so that part is already handled. We do not apply for the grant on your behalf: eligibility is Google's decision and the policy is Google's to change. If you want the account itself run once the grant is approved, that is scoped separately as Google Ad Grant management, and what that costs against the rest of the Australian market is set out on the Ad Grant management cost page.
The grant expects a working site with real content about your mission and programs. A one-page placeholder or a link tree is the kind of site that gets an application knocked back.
The account has to record conversions. We agree which website actions to measure, then set up and check the relevant tracking during the build.
Each ad needs a page that answers the search. We build a page per program rather than pointing every keyword at the homepage and hoping.
// EVERYTHING FOR NOT-FOR-PROFITS
The whole not-for-profit side of what we do, in the order most organisations meet it: get the website right, check whether you qualify for the grant, then work out what running it should cost.
// HOW IT RUNS
Built around the way decisions actually get made in a not-for-profit: approved by a group, paid from a defined pool of money, reported on afterwards.
A short call about your programs, your funding period and who has to approve the spend. Then one fixed price in writing, itemised enough to sit in a grant application.
Your board or committee gets one document with one number to vote on. No hourly estimate to argue about, no range that moves after the meeting.
We hand-code it and put it on a private staging link, so committee members can look through it in their own time instead of in a ten-minute agenda item.
Changes come back to us in one consolidated round, collected from everyone at once, so the site is not pulled in two directions by two reviewers.
We put it live and hand over the accounts. You own the site and the domain, so a lean funding year is a budget decision, not a crisis.
Those speed numbers are measured on webblend.au itself, not promised for your build, because your content and your donation platform affect the result. Web Blend is based in Darwin and builds for charities and not-for-profits alongside trades and service businesses around Australia. Have a look at recent builds to see how we work.
// WHERE WE DO THIS
We are based in Darwin and work across Darwin, Palmerston and Katherine, with the rest of Australia handled online. The local page covers travel, timing and what changes when the job is in the Territory.
// QUESTIONS
Not sure how this fits your funding period, your board, or your DGR status? Ask us directly and you will get a straight answer, including when the answer is no.
Get in touchWebsites start from $1,500 + GST for a single page, and a full multi-page conversion website starts from $2,800 + GST. You get one fixed number in writing before anything starts, which is what makes it usable in a grant application or a funding acquittal. There is no lock-in: once the build is paid for, the site and the domain are yours.
Enough to build the donation flow correctly and to ask the right questions before we start. If you are endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient, we build the donate page and the receipting to reflect that eligible gifts are tax deductible. If you are not endorsed, we make sure nothing on the page, in the small print or in the automated receipt implies that they are. We are not tax or legal advisers, so your endorsement status and your public statements stay your call. Confirm the status on ABN Lookup or with your accountant and we build to it.
We build to the standard the grant expects: substantial content about your mission and programs, working conversion tracking, specific landing pages instead of one catch-all homepage, and HTTPS on a domain your organisation owns. We do not apply for the grant on your behalf, because eligibility is Google's decision and the policy is Google's to change. Running the account after the grant is approved is a separate service, scoped separately.
It suits how we price. One fixed number agreed up front against a defined scope, so the spend lands inside the funding period and there is a clean line item for the acquittal. No open-ended retainer still running after your reporting date.
You get a written scope with a single price, which is the format a board or committee can actually vote on. During the build the site sits on a private staging link so members review it when they have time, and their comments come back to us together as one round of changes.
We build to WCAG guidelines from the start: contrast, real text, keyboard operation, visible focus, labelled forms and headings in a sensible order. We hold no accessibility certification and we will not pretend otherwise. If a funder needs a formal WCAG conformance audit, that is a specialist job and we will say so rather than sell it to you.
We are based in Darwin and build for not-for-profits anywhere in Australia. The work runs on calls, email and a staging link, so where your office is makes very little difference to the build.
// READY WHEN YOU ARE
Tell us what your organisation does, whether you hold DGR endorsement, and when the funding has to be spent. We will come back with a scope and a fixed price you can take to the next meeting.
Get a fixed price