Digital Resources

An attempt by us to provide a list of digital resources available to the sector.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Adobe Express for Nonprofits provides similar functionality for eligible organisations.
Affinity Studio is a free professional design, photo editing and page layout application for Mac and Windows produced by Canva.
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.

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

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.

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.