Bridging the Future
Website for a UK education charity, built in Astro, then tuned for speed and search so students, volunteers and donors can find it.
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Live preview of the Bridging the Future websiteThe client
Bridging the Future is a registered UK charity that helps young refugees and asylum seekers into education through a free STEM summer school and online mentoring. The website speaks to several audiences at once: students applying, volunteers signing up and supporters donating.
What I built
- Designed and built the website in Astro, with a clear route for each audience: Apply, Get Involved and Donate.
- Pages for the programmes, the charity’s story, news and contact, written to be easy to read for young people with English as an additional language.
- Performance work so pages load fast on phones: static pages, optimised images and very little JavaScript.
- SEO setup: page titles and descriptions, structured data, sitemap and clean URLs, so the charity shows up for the searches that matter to it.
- An accessibility widget, and a cookie banner that loads analytics and the donation form only with permission.
What I delivered
- Website design and build
- Programme and news pages
- Apply and donate journeys
- Performance optimisation
- Technical and on-page SEO
- Cookie consent and accessibility tools