If you're a registered charity, we'd love to support your work by providing you with a free web hosting plan. Kualo has been providing reliable web hosting for more than 15 years, and we're well known for our exceptional support, security and uptime, all powered by 100% renewable energy. We're on a mission to ensure that charities can get online without spending a penny more than they have to.
You'll receive our most popular shared hosting plan, the Startup Plan, plus we also throw in free LiteSpeed Cache - more on that later.
The Startup plan is loaded with features, supporting multiple web sites - perfect for charity fundraising landing pages - up to 100 email accounts, unlimited bandwidth, 25 MySQL databases and is also fully compatible with many commonly used web applications such as WordPress and Joomla.
We also throw in our LiteSpeed cache, usually a paid extra. This is an advanced server-side caching tool which makes web sites extremely fast. If your site uses a CMS such as WordPress, you will be able to easily leverage this caching solution and turbo-charge your web site speed. We can help you configure this for free. For sites built on other applications, it's usually also possible to use our cache - just contact us and we can advise!
If you're just starting out, we also provide a free web site builder which you can use to easily create your site or additional landing pages with a simple drag-and-drop editor. The plan can support around 300,000 page views per month, and so is suitable for the majority of charity web sites.
If you're a more established charity with a higher number of visitors to your site, we also provide heavy discounts on our range of advanced hosting solutions, including our performance business hosting plans, managed virtual servers, managed dedicated servers and complex managed hosting, capable of supporting millions of visitors per month. We'd love to help your charity ensure your web site is fast, stable and ensure you get the best possible value.
To ensure that we only provide hosting to genuine charities, you must be a registered currently listed on the UK Charity Commission website. We may also be able to accept requests from charities outside of the UK , providing that we can verify that your charity is officially registered in your country, and that this database exists online.
At this time, our free charity hosting is provided to charities which meet our criteria outlined below. Acceptance onto the program is at our sole discretion.
Our preset criteria is as follows:-
Please see the FAQ below for more detailed information on these criteria.
If you're a qualifying charity, we'd love to host your web site. All that we ask is that you help us to promote this initiative with a very small text link back to this page in your web site footer. To get started, simply register for a client account and then get in touch and we'll start the onboarding process. If you have an existing web site hosted elsewhere, we can help you migrate it across free of charge. Likewise, if you have domains registered elsewhere, we can transfer those across too and provide extremely discounted renewal rates compared to other leading registrars.
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You'll need to be UK registered charity. If you're based in another country, we may still be able to host your web site provided your charity is registered with a government recognised charities register, with an online searchable database, and providing you also meet our other criteria.
At this time, our free charity hosting is provided to charities which meet our criteria outlined below. Acceptance onto the program is at our sole discretion.
Our preset criteria is as follows:-
We are primarily interested in supporting charities that deal with poverty and the effects of poverty; that provide education, learning support or youthwork (excluding Parent Associations / Booster Clubs); that promote arts and culture; that work in the health, medical or legal sectors; that work with ex-offenders or in victim support; that work in animal or nature conservation; that work in international development, disaster relief or human rights; and local sports clubs and organisations (with the exception of those which are chapters, branches or in some way affiliated with a larger movement, such the Scout/Guide movement or other such national or international movements).
Provided they meet our other criteria, we may accept charities that do not fall under these definitions at our sole discretion.
At this time we do not accept applications from charities with a religious or political purpose. We may permit some charities who are affiliated with religious organisations, mainly because they are very often responsible for running really good and worthy causes, provided that religious teaching is not part of the charity's function. Acceptance of charities with religious affiliation is at our sole discretion. We will not accept any charities with any political affiliation whatsoever.
We only want to support charities that we feel demonstrate financial responsibility. This is particularly true in large charities. We do not believe a charity, which by definition is dependent on donations and support from the general public, should be shown to hoard money or spend it frivolously. In terms of staff remuneration, we consider an excessive level of remuneration to be $100,000 USD as an absolute maximum.
Each application is considered independently, and acceptance shall be at Kualo's sole discretion. Successful applications are subject to periodic review.
We'll provide you with our Startup plan for free, with no time limits on expiry, providing you continue to meet our criteria. All we require in return is a small link back to this page in the foot of your web site to help us promote the initiative and help even more charities. We also require your permission to add your logo to this page and provide you with a link back to your web site, though we are under no obligation to do so.
The Startup plan will be suitable for the vast majority of charity web sites up to around 300,000 visitors per month. If you're a much larger charity, we can provide more advanced hosting solutions. Get in touch and let us know about your web site, and we'll let you know what additional fees may apply. Of course, we'll include a hefty discount to ensure you never pay a penny more than you have to.
Absolutely. Our support is the cornerstone of our success, and we're fanatical about providing expert support 24x7. We provide the same service level to the charities we host for free as we do our paying customers.
You bet! We'll provide a free web site transfer service so your existing web site comes across without a hassle.
Yes! This is not required by any means, but if you transfer your domain registrations to Kualo from your existing registrar, we'll apply a special discount level so that you pay near to cost price for any future renewals. Of course, we'll be on hand to step you through the process.
We set up charity hosting accounts manually as we need to carefully vet all applicants to make sure they are legitimate charities. Assuming you qualify, we should be able to get you set up within a few hours. If you have an existing web site, we should be able to migrate it across for you within 24 hours.
We'd love you to! Any blog posts, tweets or social media posts to this page will be hugely appreciated. We have no limit on the number of charities we can host and we'd like to help as many as possible. Please get in touch below if you have any specific ideas to help spread the word.
Our dedicated professionals work 24x7 to ensure that all our systems work seamlessly. When you need help, you can rely on our team of patient hosting gurus to go the extra mile to ensure you have every assistance you need. We call it 'support with love'.
