A charity website where every page can take a donation.

Give a Gift is a registered charity in Leeds supporting people in need. We designed and built their WordPress site, with GiveWP donations for standard and Zakat giving, campaigns, projects and news.

Give a Gift is a grassroots registered charity (number 1176262) based on Roundhay Road in Leeds. It supports refugees, asylum seekers, people facing destitution and other disadvantaged communities with food parcels and essential items, help finding accommodation, short-term financial help, advocacy, befriending and translation. We designed and built the charity's website on WordPress, with online donations at its centre.

A small charity's website has to do several jobs at once. It has to explain who the charity helps and how, show supporters what their money does, run seasonal appeals, and take donations without sending people off to a separate page they might abandon. For a charity whose supporters give Zakat as well as general donations, it also has to keep those two kinds of giving apart, because Zakat has its own rules about how it may be spent.

Donations run on GiveWP, with two separate forms: a Standard Donation and a Zakat Donation. Each shows its own target and progress, offers a set of suggested amounts with the option to enter a custom one, and takes card payment through Stripe. Donors can give on behalf of a company or choose to give anonymously.

Keeping Zakat in its own form means those gifts are recorded separately from the start, so the charity can account for them on their own. For donors, it removes the doubt about where a Zakat payment will go. It is a small decision in the build that matters a great deal to the people giving.

The donation forms are not tucked away on a single page. A "Donate to Give a Gift" panel with both forms sits at the foot of every page, and a donate button stays in the header. The homepage slider carries a "donate now" button on every slide, next to the story or appeal it shows.

Someone who has just read about a family helped through the winter can give there and then, without searching for a donate link. That is the moment a visitor is most likely to give, and the site is built so the form is always within reach.

The charity runs appeals through the year, and each has its own page: the Ramadan Food Drive, which includes weekly community iftar meals and food packs for families through the month, the Toys Appeal, the Winter and Christmas Campaign and fundraising for other charities. The projects section covers the ongoing work: volunteering and training, advocacy and befriending, health and well-being, and the Cultural Food Hub.

Because these are WordPress posts built with Elementor, the charity's team can add a new campaign or update an appeal themselves, which matters when an appeal has to go live quickly at the start of Ramadan or the first cold snap of winter.

The homepage sets out the charity's three principles (person-centred, volunteer and user led, grassroots focused) and the figures the charity reports for its work. A "Life Changing Stories" section links to individual accounts, such as people fleeing domestic violence, living on the streets or arriving as a stranger from overseas. The news section holds updates, press coverage and the charity's social impact report.

The about page explains the vision, mission and values and lists the forms of support on offer, so a visitor can see both the people helped and the practical help given. A newsletter sign-up in the footer keeps supporters in touch between appeals.

The site is WordPress with Elementor and Elementor Pro for the page layouts and GiveWP for donations. That combination suits a charity that needs to publish its own appeals and news without a developer for every change, while the donation forms stay consistent across the whole site. [RESULT: online donations since launch]

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