2023 has been our best year yet and we’re really excited to showcase some of our proudest moments with you. We’ve continued to provide hundreds of hours to good causes through mentorship, Impact Optimiser’s & pro-bono projects. Our team has doubled in size and so did our fundraising. Here’s our look back at 2023, in our year in numbers.

285+ volunteering hours provided to charities all across the UK

We work with multiple charities and community foundations to support them with digital expertise and we did even more volunteering with them this year, compared to last year. From giving up our time for webinars and talks, to provide design time and technical support, we're really proud of the charities we've been able to help and to see their knowledge grow and with it - their digital presence and impact.

80+ Impact Optimiser audits for charities across the world

We continued to provide charities with a free website audit that includes a bespoke report of their website with five suggestions they can action themselves.

All charities struggle with time, marketing budget and digital expertise; our Impact Optimiser helps alleviate those issues. We aimed to do one every week, we did 62 last year, and ended up doing even more than that this time around too!

£4,626 raised for Leeds Mind’s ‘Get Together Through Gaming’

We teamed up with Leeds Mind to create a new gaming brand and fundraising event to support better mental health for all and opened up the discussions around mental wellbeing with a younger, gaming-focussed audience. The pilot event was a huge success for the charity and raised the most the charity had ever raised from a pilot event. We’re bringing it back, bigger and better than ever in 2024 too.

£745 raised for Mind in Bradford’s ‘Move for Mind’ Campaign

Colin was approached by the team at Mind in Bradford to run an event to raise funds for their annual 'Move for Mind' campaign. In March, Col taught a two-hour ‘Clubathon’ to classmates - and the girls from Mind - to collectively raise over £700 for the campaign. Col even roped his fellow co-founder Tom into taking part and after some reluctance he came along (and secretly loved it).

1% of our revenue went to two great causes

Alongside becoming part of the Better Business Act, a member of our local Leeds Community Foundation and a Living Wage Employer; one of the best things we implemented in 2022 was to become a member of 1% for the Planet and in 2023 we gave our first donations to Big Blue Ocean Cleanup and to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

1% for the Planet is a global organisation that exists to ensure the planet and our future generations thrive and our personal commitment to this is to now give away 1% of our business sales each year to environmental causes - wether we make a profit or not.

100% of our partners are in the third-sector

Providing digital expertise to those in the third-sector has been enlightening for us, and for the charities we've worked with it seems like the feeling is mutual. We’ve continued with where we left off in 2022 and are now proud to be able to state that any new partner we have worked alongside this year is in the third-sector.

Thank you

Thank you to all of the charities and community foundations we've worked with this year.

We’re in a privileged position to love what we do, but it’s taken a lot of hard work to get here. It means the world to us to have such wonderful opportunities to collaborate with so many good causes.

Here’s to another year of supporting even more incredible organisations.

2023 — Our year in numbers