Services

A holistic digital partner for the third sector

We’re not a web agency with a side of advice. We help organisations working for social good with the whole picture: strategy, brand and websites, and audience growth, joined up, and with one relationship that runs through it all.

Three ways we work with you

The specialist work like SEO, Ad Grants, video and brand sits inside whichever pillar it belongs to.

Strategy & consultancy

Practical digital strategy, transformation and senior leadership advice. We help your team make better decisions about people, services, systems and skills, and we’re always honest about what will and won’t work for you.

Brand & websites

Clear brand and visual identity, plus accessible, user-focused WordPress sites your team can run without us. Built through proper discovery to be found, understood and used by the people you exist to serve.

Marketing & audience growth

Content, SEO, Google Ad Grants, digital engagement and optimisation, plus video and audio that grow your reach and your relationships. We help the right people find you, then stay with you.

Charities don’t need a website, a strategy and a training course from three different suppliers. They need them to add up to something.

So we join the dots. The strategy shapes the site, the site feeds the marketing, and the skills stay in your team long after we’ve gone. That’s the harder thing to sell, and the more useful thing to buy.

In Your Corner

Most of what we do doesn’t end at a launch or a final report. Our ongoing digital partnership keeps everything we build working, measured and improving, so you’ve always got senior digital people in your back pocket.

How the partnership works
  • A team that already knows your organisation
  • Hosting, maintenance, security and updates handled
  • Ongoing measurement and improvement, not set-and-forget
  • Senior advice on tap as new questions come up
  • Room to grow what we’ve built as your work changes

How we approach the work

The same principles run through every pillar, and through the partnership that connects them.

User-centred

We start with the people you serve and the problem to solve, not a template or a trend. Discovery before design, every time.

Collaborative

You know your work and your sector; we know digital. The best results come from bringing both together, and we’ll challenge where it helps.

Community-focused

Eighteen years in the third sector means we understand complex services, sensitive audiences and stretched teams, and design for them.

Impact-driven

We care what happens after launch. We measure what matters and keep improving it, so the work keeps earning its place.

The team at Third Sector Lab are purpose-led and phenomenal at what they do.

How a project runs

Discovery takes the most room because everything after it depends on getting that part right, and the last phase never really finishes.

Discovery

Understanding the people you serve, the problem in front of you, and what is really going on inside the organisation. Workshops, interviews, analytics, content audits, user testing, whatever the question needs.

The biggest part, on purpose

Shape

Turning what we learned into structure, journeys and a plan you can argue with before anyone builds anything.

Make

Designing and building it, with you in the room rather than at the end of an email thread.

Land

Training, launch and handover, so your team can run it confidently without us.

Keep going

Measuring, improving, and picking up the next thing as it comes.

Most agencies compress discovery because it is the hardest part to sell. We do the opposite: if we understand the problem properly, everything after it gets cheaper, faster and more likely to work.

Free guide

Using AI ethically in your digital strategy

AI is moving fast, and the sector is right to be cautious. We’ve written a practical, honest guide to using it well: where it genuinely helps, where it doesn’t belong, and how to protect the people and data you’re responsible for.

  • Where AI adds real value, and where it doesn’t
  • Data, privacy and safeguarding considerations
  • Being open with the people you serve
  • Questions to ask before you adopt a tool
Read the guide

Not sure which one you need?

Tell us where you are and what you’re trying to do. We’ll help you work out what actually needs to happen next, even if that’s not us.

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