Clear websites for charities and community groups
Clear websites for charities and community groups
Open Lantern helps charities and community groups replace outdated websites with something clear, welcoming, and practical.
Good work deserves a website that does its job
Many charities and community groups are stuck with websites that no longer serve them well. They are hard to update, do not work properly on phones, and no longer reflect the quality of the organisation behind them.
People visit a website to find simple things like contact details, opening times, events, support, and next steps. When that information is hard to find, the website stops helping.
Open Lantern exists to help fix that with simple, affordable website work.
Is this for you?
Open Lantern works with small to medium organisations doing useful community work, usually without an in-house web team or a big digital budget.
Charities
Charities whose websites no longer reflect the quality of their work, and make it harder than it should be for people to find information or get in touch.
Community groups
Community organisations, village halls, local projects, and voluntary groups that need a simple, reliable website without agency complexity or agency pricing.
Selected faith and non-profit organisations
Some faith-based and non-profit organisations where the need is clear, the scope is sensible, and the website mainly needs to be more welcoming, easier to use, and easier to manage.
Practical help with your website
The aim is not to make things flashy. It is to make your website clearer, more useful, and easier to manage.
- Refreshing an outdated website
- Simple rebuilds from the ground up
- Content and structure improvements
- Mobile usability and accessibility fixes
- Clearer contact and information flows
- Lightweight ongoing support where appropriate
Clear about boundaries
We try to be clear from the start so you can tell quickly whether this is the right fit.
- Large bespoke platforms or complex web applications
- Ongoing marketing, SEO campaigns, or social media management
- Branding or logo design
- Video production or photography
- Fundraising platform builds
- E-commerce or online shop development
A simple process
Conversation
We start with a short conversation about your organisation, your current website, and what is not working.
Review
We review your existing site and give you a clear view of what would help most.
Proposal
If it's a good fit, we suggest a practical scope of work with clear costs and realistic timescales.
Delivery
We improve or rebuild the site, keep the process straightforward, and hand over something you can actually manage.
Experienced, practical, and local
Open Lantern is run by Andy Max, a web and software professional based in Wiltshire.
Andy has worked across charities, media, local government, regulated work, and UK public sector projects.
This is not a hobby project. It is serious, professional work for organisations that need a better website without getting pulled into something bloated or expensive.
Experience includes work with:
- BBC
- Vodafone
- Radioplayer
- Diabetes UK
- Into Film
- Wiltshire Council
- UK government
Small by design
Open Lantern is still early stage and works with a small number of organisations at a time. That means each project gets proper attention.
If it sounds like a fit, get in touch. Even if the timing is not right yet, a short conversation is fine.
Tell us about your organisation
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