Family Charity partnership needs some free Wordpress help!

[ross.fspl]

Hi all
I'm a Development Officer for a partnership of three family counselling and mediation charities in Lanarkshire, Scotland. We're interested in setting up a new website to promote the work of the partnership, we're particularly keen on a Wordpress install as it seems the easiest to set-up and update ourselves. Without pleading poverty, we really don't have the money to pay a designer, the services we offer are free of charge and they're expensive to run; training a volunteer counsellor costs £3500! We're largely volunteer led and rely heavily on donations to keep the three services running. You know what's coming next...

We're looking to work with a webdesigner to create a Wordpress theme that will look and feel like a standard website, not like a blog. It won't need to do terribly much, simply provide a few pages on the counselling and mediation services we offer, have a news page, a contact page, a bit where we can upload Word documents for people to download, such as referral forms, etc and the ability to capture users' email addresses for a mailing list would be great.

We're more than happy to use an existing free template and having it tweaked a little, we can supply all the necessary logos, photos, blurb, etc. We're fairly open when it comes to the overall colour scheme, although it would be nice to have a random image generator on the header, as with the Cutline theme (I've been having a nosey at the various themes out there!).

This would be an ideal opportunity for a newbie designer to build their portfolio or an existing designer to feel warm and fuzzy about doing some work for charity. You'll be allowed a permanent link to your design portfolio/site at the footer of each page. More importantly, each of the three charities involved is a member of a national umbrella body, we'll be mailing out the website launch info and a link to members across the country, giving your work some serious exposure indeed.

So if you've got the time to tweak an existing Wordpress theme for a charity partnership please get in touch!

PS: I'll give the full names and charity numbers of our three organisations at the request of anyone who replies.

Cheers

Ross

[joe_2003]

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