Freehold

Websites for small community and disability-sector organisations

Your website, freehold.

Everyone else rents you your own website. Freehold hands you the deed. Built once, owned outright, and yours to move any time. No lease, no lock-in, no landlord.

No cold sales. If it is not right for you, you say no and nothing is lost.

Certificate of Title

Held Freehold

This website is held freehold by

your organisation

  • Owned outright, in your name
  • One fair price, nothing monthly
  • Free to move, any time you like
What Freehold is

A better version of the site you already have, and it is yours

I look for small organisations doing important work behind a website that is dated, hard to use, or long gone. Then I rebuild it, in full, from your own real content, and hand the whole thing over in your name. Own the land, not just rent the view.

Your whole site, not a sample

Every service, every story, your history, your people, your funders. A better-presented version of everything you already have, never a thinned-out shell.

Built to be read on a hard day

Large text, calm layout, one decision at a time. Made for a tired parent on a phone or a volunteer reading at 9pm, not for a design award.

Made from lived experience

Years of frontline community and disability-sector work, and a careful eye for what makes reading easy. The care is in the detail.

Held freehold, from day one

Free hosting, your domain stays in your name, and you can take the whole site elsewhere any time, free, no notice. Ownership you can prove, not just claim.

How it works

Four steps, and only one is yours

Most of this happens before you ever hear from me. By the time I get in touch, the work is already done and waiting for you to look at.

01 I do this

I find you

I spot a community or disability-sector group whose website no longer does its work justice.

02 I do this

I rebuild it, free

Using only your own public words, logo and photos, I build a full new site as a private preview.

03 I do this

I offer it warmly

I send you a private link with a plain, no-pressure note. You look in your own time.

04 Your call

You decide

Love it and want it live? One fair price and the deed is yours. Not for you? Say so, and that is completely fine.

The full walk-through

Funders judge a charity partly by how it looks. Good design costs thousands. So the groups doing the most with the least end up looking like they do the least, and it costs them funding.

That is the gap Freehold exists to close.

What it costs

One fair price, then the deed is yours

The part small groups worry about most is the running cost. There isn't one. You pay once to own the site outright, and after that you owe nothing.

Around $800 One-off, to build and go live. Flexible, and sometimes gifted where the relationship matters more than the fee.
$0 Hosting. Free, held for you, with nothing monthly, ever.
Freehold You own the site and your domain outright, and can move it to any host any time, free.

For comparison, a like-for-like custom build in New Zealand usually runs three to eight thousand dollars, and a Wix or Squarespace subscription rents you the ground every year without ever being truly yours.

Get in touch

Had a note from me, or found this on your own?

Either way, you are welcome here. If you run a community or disability-sector group and want to talk, I would love to hear from you. There is never any pressure, and never any cost to ask.

A contact form goes live here soon. If a note from me brought you to this page, just reply to that email and it reaches me directly.