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Helping Charities
One of the reasons the directors started Mercury1 was to be able to help more people get an advantage through technology. A group that we wanted to help most was those in the charity sector.
Social businesses
To support the re-launch of ClearlySo.com (formally SocialInvestments.com) we have extended our charity 10% discount offer to Social businesses as defined by ClearlySo. We are proud to be supporting this Social and Ethical Business sector.
If you want to find out more about Social Businesses and whether this applies to you too then please visit ClearlySo.com. If you are interested in our discount offer then please contact us for more information.
Free services for charities
Because this is a key part of our reasons for being in business, we offer selected charities a free service (most of them take a new website and free hosting). Anything that we offer under a free agreement is 100% without charge, and will remain so in perpetuity.
We treat our charity customers in exactly the same professional manner as full-paying clients.
Unfortunately, because of resource constraints we can only offer this service to one charity every six months, even though we would love to be able to do more.
How to apply
Complete our contact form to request consideration for a free service. We will review your application and any available slots we have. If your need isn't too urgent and you can afford to wait, then you may find that we can fit you in to a future placement. We do have a strict criteria though and certainly only consider registered charities.
Generally we like to help either local smaller charities whom are helping with children, education or the environment or UK charities supporting 3rd world countries.
A charitable discount
For other charities who we are unable to help gratis, we provide a 10% discount. We pride ourselves with the quality and throughness of our services and know that any charities choosing to work with us will get a great deal out of it.
Director's charity of the year
In 2009 both directors are also offering some of their spare time to help out the local charity; Cash for Kids. Both Natalie and Phil form part of the Southampton fundraising committee and will be helping the charity coordinate a number of fundraising events in the local area. Mercury1 will be supporting these events as best we can and we hope that you too will be happy to support us in doing so. Watch out for updates about these events soon.
Charity projects
Below are a number of charity (free) projects that we have undertaken recently.
| Project details | Image 1 | Image 2 |
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Project: Avon Tyrrell Type: Dynamic Website, Hosting In a nutshell: Modern and easily editable website for charity |  | |
Project: Black and White Productions Type: Static Website In a nutshell: Online brochure site for charitable performing arts group |  | |
Project: Tardis Productions Type: Static Website In a nutshell: Online promotional website in aid of charity |  | |
Project: Thanet Festival Type: Static Website, Hosting, Email In a nutshell: Easy to use website produced in short timescales |  |  |
Project: Community Projects Africa Type: Static Website, Hosting, Email In a nutshell: User friendly website with strong and clean design |  |