Digital Charities

We're a peer-run community of around 2,500 people working in and for not-for-profit organisations, mostly in the UK. We share knowledge and ideas, we fix each others' problems and we help each other deliver online campaigns, digital content and tech solutions. New members and ideas for meetups are always welcome.

We have a Slack-based online space, with channels where we discuss jobs, content and UX, analytics and much more. We regularly have meetups, often with speakers, either online, or in real life, mostly in London. We usually meet on the first Wednesday of the month, 4-6pm, and mostly continue the conversation in a pub afterwards. Fill in the form below to apply to join us.

Members of the group include digital campaigners, web editors and digital managers from ActionAid, Greenpeace, UNICEF, Friends of the Earth and many more. Many of our members are in the UK, but we welcome people from all over the world. The community was born out of Make Poverty History in 2005, and has been going ever since.

The current chairs are Gemma Hampson from Hactar, Julius Honnor from Contentious, Neil Gunn, who's worked for the Ramblers and WWF, and Ailín Martinez from Medecins Sans Frontieres.

You can contact the chairs through Slack. You'll also occasionally find us on Twitter.

Please fill in a few details to join Digital Charities. We welcome anyone who works for a charity or not-for-profit organisation.

If you work for a commercial organisation you'll need to persuade us that you're joining in order to help rather than to market your services, and demonstrate that you have valuable expertise or experience to share.

If we approve your application you'll get an email invite from Slack. Follow the instructions in the email to get access.

All members must fill in some profile details and abide by our code of conduct.

Please fill in all the fields, click on the APPLY button and complete the spam test. We usually respond to applications within 24 hours or so. If you've moved jobs and already have an account, you can change your own email address. If you've forgotten your password and no longer have access to your email, let us know using the form below and we'll sort you out.