Afasic North Surrey
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The Challenge
North Surrey Afasic are a volunteer led charity, who support children and young adults with speech and language needs.
Afasic North Surrey wanted a new website with a more professional appearance that would help the charity promote its work and generate more enquiries.
The existing website also needed to be easier for staff to manage. The charity wanted to update its pages internally without relying on a developer whenever information changed.
The new website therefore needed to communicate the charity’s services clearly, provide straightforward routes for families seeking support and offer a simple editing experience for its team.
Our Approach
We created a new website for Afasic North Surrey, a self-funding branch of the national charity Afasic, formerly known as the Association for Speech Impaired Children. The project drew on our experience in charity website design, with the site planned around the needs of families seeking information and support.
We began by planning a new sitemap and reorganising the website’s content around the needs of families seeking support for children and young adults with speech, language and communication needs.
Wireframes were created for the principal pages, helping us prioritise important information and give visitors clearer routes to Afasic’s services, activities and contact details.
The website also needed to communicate the value of supporting the charity. We introduced prominent routes to donation and volunteering information, helping visitors understand how they could contribute to Afasic North Surrey’s work.
We developed the website using Concrete CMS. Its in-context editing tools allow the charity’s team to update pages, upload galleries and maintain routine content while viewing the website.
Giving the Afasic team control over routine content updates was an important part of the project. Our guide to using a charity website more effectively covers further ways charities can keep their content useful, current and focused on their audiences.
Following launch, we provided guidance on managing the website and remain available to support Afasic North Surrey with hosting, maintenance and future website changes.
Results
The new website provided Afasic North Surrey with:
- A professional online presence that explains the charity’s work more clearly.
- A reorganised site structure for families seeking information and support.
- Clear routes to donation and volunteering information.
- An easier way for visitors to contact the charity.
- In-context Concrete CMS editing for routine page updates.
- A simple way for staff to upload and manage image galleries.
- Ongoing hosting, maintenance and technical support from Made Simple Media.
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