From funding to finished projects, here is how the journey unfolds.
Step 1: Fuel the fund
Corporate partners contribute to either our general or ring-fenced funds, giving us the resources to plan meaningful creative work.
Step 2: Co-design briefs
We collaborate with charities across the UK to understand their needs and translate them into clear, purposeful project briefs, ready for delivery.
Step 3: Deliver the work
Projects are brought to life by our core team, trusted freelancers, or mentored students. We match every mission with the best-fit UK talent.
Step 4: Create lasting impact
Charities receive high-quality digital work, followed by handover, training, 30/90-day check-ins and ongoing support. Students and freelancers grow, and our partners see their investment deliver measurable outcomes across UK communities.
Who this helps
Freelance for Good exists to place UK professional digital skills where they can do the most good. Charities get the work they need, freelancers do meaningful projects, students learn by shipping, and funders see measurable impact in a way they never could before.
Your support powers a delivery engine rather than a single project. Contributions can be ring-fenced for specific causes, and every engagement ends with an impact note and marketing material your team can share.
Your support also develops UK-based talent and opens volunteering opportunities for your teams who want to get involved personally. We organise regular volunteer day hackathons!
We focus on foundations that last: clear messaging, modern websites, campaign toolkits, and training. Everything we deliver is handed over with documentation, credentials, and a walkthrough so teams can run with it.
We prioritise briefs for charities with clear goals and motivated teams, helping them raise funds, reach communities, and save time for frontline work. All for free.
We give professionals real ownership, respectful rates, and projects worth their skills. You collaborate with good people, ship meaningful work, and add portfolio pieces that make a real difference
Leads guide delivery with weekly check-ins, and there is always space to mentor or be mentored if you want it.
Students are paid, trusted with real responsibility, and supported by experienced leads. They finish with named credit, shipped work, and the confidence that comes from delivering meaningful work that makes a real difference.
Educators can also connect coursework to live briefs, helping their students build capability in a professional environment.
Care, craft, and a model that respects everyone involved.
We scope each brief in-house, then assemble an experienced lead with a supporting squad, often pairing paid students with seasoned pros.
We co-design project briefs with every charity, agree on outcomes, and keep progress visible with weekly check-ins.
Work ships in reviewable pieces, so feedback is easy, quality stays high, and momentum never stalls.
Freelancers work at reduced but respectful rates, students are paid and credited, and everyone has space to lead.
Charities receive source files, credentials, guides, and training so they can own and maintain everything independently.
Corporate CSR partners and grants cover delivery. One contribution powers several projects and multiplies outcomes.
Small projects typically run 2 to 4 weeks, while larger foundational work might run for a maximum of 6 to 10 weeks. We tend not to commit to large projects spanning several months as this usually means going beyond the scope of our mission and shouldering all digital work for a charity full time. We want to get involved with great causes that have an underdeveloped presence, this is where we have the most leverage and creative freedom!
Not yet! We are a Community Interest Company with a social purpose and capped salaries. Becoming a registered charity is our ultimate goal, but it is a lengthy application process and we are doing as much work as possible while the application progresses.
Nothing, we actually pay! There is no agency fee or per-project charge or anything of the sort. We only take a modest fixed salary to cover our operating costs and allow us to do this work full time. 100% of donations above our baseline go straight into the fund! You won’t exactly get rich working for us, but paying as fairly as we can opens the door for people who might not otherwise be able to afford to do some good! Many do of course give a lot of extra time pro bono (it is for charity after all). Paying also comes with the benefit of clear expectations, timelines, and contracts. This is better for freelancers, better for organisations, with better results for better portfolios. This lets the next wave of UK talent grow without being asked to work "for exposure”.
We prioritise briefs with a clear goal, realistic scope, and motivated teams. We also aim for work that unlocks growth and has the greatest potential for leverage instead of nice-to-haves. As an example a local charity doing amazing work for their community but without any online presence is a perfect fit for us, as it gives our team full creative agency and students room to experiment and learn.
Through corporate CSR support, sponsorships, and grants that power the whole delivery engine so charities never receive a single invoice from us. We also allow some funds to be ring-fenced for a charitable area or project type that a specific funder may be passionate about, with every contribution being tracked with impact notes, outcomes, and stories they can share. We want to give our donors more positive exposure per pound than any marketing campaign ever could.
The charities. Everything we deliver (code, designs, content, and assets etc.) is handed over for full use. Charities can edit, rebrand, or repurpose it however they wish. We even run short training sessions as part of our handover so teams can maintain everything themselves. There is no lock-in, no surprise fees, just friendly check-ins to see if there's anything more we can do to help.
If you have any more questions about how all of this works, want to support our work, or even join a project, please reach out to us. We'd love to hear from you.
