Free Web Sites New Zealand

dezignscene will provide free websites for purely charitable purposes (sorry this excludes clubs, churches, child care, kindergartens, kohanga reo and sports clubs). If your aims are purely charitable. e.g. special needs children, expensive medical treatment, poverty relief etc, then we can provide you with the following for free.

• Free website hosting with free CMS, Content Management, worth $40 per month
• Free training at our free training seminars
• Free credit card donation form
• Free mailing list facility

The equivalent hosting plan level offered to all charities will be the business plan. If your charity requires a higher level of service, then we can discuss options at that time. We cannot host externally developed or PHP or ASP websites for free, as these services incur costs for us. You must use our CMS system only to manage your website.

For credit card donations, we can support most payment gateways in NZ or Paypal. You will need to talk to those payment gateways directly to see if they will provide discounted or free services for charities. If any do, please let us know so we can list them here.

The mailing list service allows people to subscribe to your newsletter and for you to send newsletters to them.
 

What part is not free

• Domain names are not free, we have to pay that money to someone else
• Web design and graphics design services are not free
• Our time is not free. We will provide normal email support for free, and you can attend our free training courses, but will not do anything for you that you can do yourself
• We don't do one on one meetings on charity websites. Understand that this is a popular offer we provide. You will need to make your mind up to use our service alone. If you need confirmation that you are within our definition of a charity, then please email us for that confirmation
• Credit card processing transactions may be charged to you by your bank or payment gateway (not us)

 

Terms of the Offer

• The definition of a charitable organisation is at our discretion
• Your website must carry a message on the home page acknowledging our sponsorship
• You must demonstrate a proof of the legitimacy of your claim. We need to differentiate between people attempting a fraud and people truly in need
• Sorry domain names are excluded from the free offer
• Sorry website transfers and design services are excluded from the offer, but will be discounted accordingly depending on the complexity of the job required
• Mailing list service must be within "fair usage". If we receive complaints, your free status or account may be suspended

 

Definition of a Charitable Organisation

We use our own definition of a charity. This includes non profit groups who perform a free service to disadvantaged groups in our society who are not their members. So unfortunately we exclude several types of non profit organisations who's primary purpose is towards their own members like clubs and sports teams. We do however offer a very competitive price for web hosting and plenty of great services for these types of organisations. We hope you will understand that if we increased our scope to all non profits, we would be overrun and could not provide a quality of service to our paying customers who at the end of the day are the real benefactors.

 

The following types of charities are included.

• Special needs children's charities
• Poverty relief (of others)
• Raising funds for an individual suffering from cancer or requiring expensive surgical procedures
• Grassroots community projects with no revenue source
• Foreign aid organisations (water, food, education, medical)
• Typical well known charities
• A project by a school or church for a specific/definable charitable purpose (not to promote a faith nor patronage)

The following types of organisations are excluded from our "free for charities" offer

• Sports clubs/teams
• Schools
• Churches promoting their faith or patronage
• Child care, kindergartens and kohanga reo 
• Other clubs and societies  

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