Website proposal Prepared for the Trustees and Clerk · 5 November 2026

A new website for John Martin's Charity

Three design directions for your new site, what it would cost and how long it would take.

Three directions

Each has a homepage, a grant page and an application to click through. They open in a new tab, and the switch in the corner shows the phone view. You can choose one or combine parts of them.

Idea 1: Warm & civic

The closest to what people expect from a town charity founded in 1714, with a classic menu and a plain statement of who you help.

Try the income quick check on Educational Grants.

Open prototype →

Idea 2: Bright & hopeful

This one starts with the person. Visitors say who they are, and the homepage changes to show what's available.

Try the four "I'm a..." buttons.

Open prototype →

Idea 3: Green & local

The homepage is a list of what's open now, with dates and a postcode check. Every grant stays in the left-hand menu.

Try the postcode check, then the one-page application.

Open prototype →

These are prototypes. Forms don't send or save anything, applications would still go through your Benefactor portal, and the logos, photos and some wording are samples, including the four-week reply time, the £30,000 income limit and the WR11 postcode check.

Cost estimate

DesignThe chosen direction across your main pages, with amends from the first turnaround£500 to £600
Build and contentAll your current pages rebuilt and moved across, to the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standard£1,000 to £1,250
Testing and launchAmends from the second turnaround, phone and browser testing, redirects from old addresses, go live£300 to £350
Total estimateplus VAT (£2,160 to £2,640 including VAT)£1,800 to £2,200

After launch, hosting is £15 a month and content changes are £85 an hour in 30-minute blocks, both plus VAT. The site would be static pages, so there's no content management system to maintain.

Timeline

About six weeks from go-ahead, with two turnarounds. Each one is a single review by you, with your comments sent back to us as one list.

  1. Week 1Dynamize

    Design

    We agree the direction and design your main pages.

  2. Week 2You

    Turnaround 1: design review

    You review the design and send us one list of comments.

  3. Weeks 3 to 4Dynamize

    Build

    We make your design amends, build every page and move your content across.

  4. Week 5You

    Turnaround 2: full site review

    You check the finished site on a staging address and send us one final list.

  5. Week 6Dynamize

    Launch

    We make the final amends, test everything and go live.

Further rounds of changes are charged at £85 an hour. If a review needs to go to the Trustees, give us the meeting date and we'll plan around it.