# White Fuse creates new website platform for small charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/06/10/white-fuse-creates-new-website-platform-for-small-charities/
- Published: 2015-06-10T14:22:57+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A new out-of-the-box website tool called Bamboo has been created for small charities
by London-based digital agency White Fuse. They claim it is “the UK’s first custom
website framework to be designed specifically for charities”.

White Fuse built Bamboo following their work with over 70 charities in the UK over
the past six years. It is built on open source tool Drupal, and lets charities create
key elements of a website as they require them, including a blog, news section, 
events listing and a resources section.

It is designed to help charities avoid either expensive custom-designed sites, or
the low-cost options that typically don’t offer sufficient support. In particular
it aims to let charities focus more on content and copy.

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White Fuse are still offering a level of customisation. This is most apparent at
the design phase, when the agency creatse a custom design based on branding guidelines
and a design specification from the charity. Other customisation can be provided
if the charity needs it.

![A demo website created using Bamboo.](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/
uploads/2015/06/sample-bamboo-white-fuse.jpg)

A demo website created using Bamboo.

Sites built with [Bamboo ](http://www.bamboobase.com/)can be automatically integrated
with third party tools that many charities are already using including email marketing
platform Mailchimp, YouTube, JustGiving, events management service Eventbrite, and
only discussion and commenting system Disqus.

White Fuse offer ongoing customer service to charities that build and run their 
sites using Bamboo.

![Sample resources section on a Bamboo website](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2015/06/sample-resources-section-bamboo-white-fuse.jpg)

Sample resources section on a Bamboo website

 

Earlier this year [White Fuse announced Humble](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2015/02/05/white-fuse-developing-crm-small-charities/),
a customer relationship marketing tool specifically designed for smaller charities.

 

_Photo: [bamboo](http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-61733425.html) by Dedek on Shutterstock.
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