Digital Resources

Accessibility

• The Hemingway Editor helps writers check the readability level of their content
• NHS Medical Document Readability Tool helps writes check the readability level of their content from a health system perspective.
• UK Government Design Principles is a useful guide to understanding design principles used by the British government
• U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) is a useful guide to understanding design principles used by the American government
• WebAIM Contrast Checker a practical, hands-on tool for checking colour contrast ratios against WCAG standards — very useful for staff designing communications
• World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2

AI

• Claude Non-Profits is open to registered UK charities, reducing the cost to $8 per user for a minimum of 2 users.

Charity Specific Digital Guidance

• Catalyst is a UK charity digital support network with tools, resources, and peer learning.
• Charity Digital provides free articles, guides, and access to discounted software specifically for UK charities.
• Good Things Foundation which focuses on digital inclusion and has specific resources for charities helping people who are digitally excluded.
• NCVO’s Digital Hub offers practical guidance on digital tools, strategy, and data protection for UK voluntary organisations.

Data & Cyber Security

• Action Fraud is the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.
• Charity Finance Group’s Fraud and Cyber resources
• ICO’s Guidance for Charities provides free GDPR guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
• The NCSC Charity Cyber Security Guidance offers free advice on protecting data.

Data & Impact Reporting

• Canva’s graph and chart tools is a simpler tool to create basic visualisations.
• Flourish is a free data visualisation tool. Useful for creating charts, maps, and infographics for impact reports.
• Google Analytics is a free tool to help you understand how people use your website.
• JetPack Stats is a free wordpress plugin to help you understand how people use your website.
• SurveyMonkey offers a free tier well-suited to collecting beneficiary feedback and evaluation data
• Typeform offers a free tier well-suited to collecting beneficiary feedback and evaluation data
• Word Clouds is a free word cloud generator.

Digital Communications & Design

• Adobe Express for Nonprofits provides similar functionality for eligible organisations.
• Canva for Nonprofits offers free premium access for registered charities. Ideal for social media graphics, reports, and posters.
• Stitch with Google DESIGN.md read the new open source way to specify your design to AI
• Mailchimp has a free tier for email newsletters with up to 500 subscribers.

Fonts, Graphics, Icons and Images

These are lists of sites where you can access royalty free fonts, graphics, icons and images:

Fonts

• Font Awesome is a free font repository.
• Google Fonts is a popular free font library.

Graphics

• Humaaans mix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library.
• Storyset provides free customizable illustrations for your next project.
• undraw offers open-source SVG illustrations with customizable colours.

Icons

• Heroicons offers a clean, modern SVG icon sets, great for UI.
• Lucide offers a clean, modern SVG icon sets, great for UI.
• The Noun Project offers a large library of free icons. Useful for presentations and reports.
• SVGRepo has over 500,000+ open-licensed SVG Vector and Icons.

Images

• Microsoft Image Gallery is a royalty free image library of Microsoft related imagery.
• Pexels and Pixabay are both excellent free image libraries.
• Unsplash is a royalty free image library.

Video

• Downsub for when you need to download subtitles you’ve added to a video online.
• Kapwing is a free browser-based video editor.
• OBS Studio is a free, open-source tool for recording and live streaming.
• Rev.com a paid service for when you need to generate accurate subtitles.
• YouTube’s automatic captions for when you need to generate free subtitles.