Charity websites have a harder job than most. They need to ask for money without sounding desperate, explain complicated work in plain language, and give donors, volunteers and funders a clear next step. I have built a fair few of them at Altitude Design, my Squarespace Platinum Partner agency, and the organisations that get results are the ones whose site makes giving, signing up and turning up easy.
For this guide I went through every template in our Squarespace templates for non-profits collection and picked the ten I would put in front of a charity, community group or faith organisation in 2026. Each write-up is based on the designer's own listing and demo site, including the actual page list, with an honest caveat where I have one. A few of these were built for churches or for service businesses first, and I say so where that matters.
If you want to compare across industries first, my ranked guide to the best Squarespace templates in 2026 covers 14 premium picks, including Fidelity, my pick for established charities.
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SquareLocator features hundreds of Squarespace templates from creators around the world. For this guide I focused on nonprofits and charities, assessing each template on whether it has a real donate page, room for programme, campaign and event pages, how easily a supporter can get in touch, and whether it tells an impact story. I have been a Squarespace Platinum Partner since 2018 with more than 400 client builds behind me.
This guide was last reviewed and updated in September 2026.
Quick Picks
| Template | Vendor | Best For | Standout Feature |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity | Applet Studio | Established charities (best overall) | Impact, Support Us and Donate pages built in |
| Venture | Studio Mesa | Mission-led and field-work nonprofits | Projects, impact and annual report pages |
| Non Profit | Kseniia Krasilich | Small and medium charities | Causes and events with donate buttons throughout |
| Reach | Happenstance | New nonprofits and appeal microsites | Donate page plus a training course |
| Grant | Applet Studio | Foundations and advisory charities | Case study structure for evidence of results |
| Evermore | GoLive | Churches and membership-led groups | Plan a visit, small groups and give |
| Safe Haven | Websites By Elise | Churches and faith communities | Sermons, events and donate pages |
| Little Sprouts | Emily Kay | Playgroups and family charities | Book-a-visit and FAQ pages |
| High Speed | GoLive | Small organisations with three programmes | Lean six-page structure |
| Brightside Day | Kristine Neil | Single events and fundraisers | One-page layout with schedule and sign-up form |
1. Fidelity by Applet Studio
Best for: Established charities that need the full set of trust pages and a proper donation ask.
Fidelity is the template I would start with for most charities. It is a Squarespace 7.1 Fluid Engine template, and the demo is built as a financial education charity with Home, About, Team, Our History, Impact, Training, News, Events, Support Us, Donate, Careers, Partners and Contact pages. That is the classic charity site structure done properly: the donate call to action stays visible, the impact page is separate from the mission statement, and there is room for partners and careers, which funders look for. Applet Studio install the demo content into a new Squarespace site for you and include tutorial videos, a restyling mini-course and email support.
Honest caveat: the structure is generous, and a small charity with one programme and two trustees will find half the pages empty, so prune before launch. Donations use Squarespace's own donation block, which needs a Business plan or above and a connected Stripe or PayPal account, and there is no Gift Aid workflow built in.
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2. Venture by Studio Mesa
Best for: Mission-led nonprofits with real projects to show and funders to report to.
Venture is built for nonprofits doing field work. The demo is an environmental organisation with project pages, an Impact page, an Annual Report page, a Field Notes blog, Events, a Shop and a Donate flow, which makes it the most complete nonprofit structure in this collection. Studio Mesa's work tends to feel more designed than most, so look here if your board wants the site to feel premium. Delivery is instant to your Squarespace account with lifetime email support and a seven-day refund window.
Honest caveat: it has a lot of pages, so an organisation with one project will be pruning rather than filling. The donation block needs a Business plan or higher and the shop needs a Commerce plan, so check your plan before you build the site around either. Studio Mesa also sell Cove (church-specific) and Retrograde (campaign-led) in the same collection; compare all three before deciding.
3. Non Profit by Kseniia Krasilich
Best for: Small and medium charities, community groups and churches that want a conventional charity layout on Fluid Engine.
Kseniia Krasilich's templates turn up in several of my roundups because they are consistently well organised, and Non Profit is her purpose-built option for charities, churches and public service organisations. The demo has eight pages (Home with a choice of two layouts, About Us, Team, Services, Causes, Events, Blog and Contact) with Donate buttons placed throughout, so giving is never more than a click away. It is a Fluid Engine template, so editing is drag and drop, and it comes with a template-specific video course.
Honest caveat: the Donate buttons are placeholders for your own giving route, so you will still set up Squarespace's donation block (Business plan or above) or link out to a fundraising platform. The warm yellow and brown palette suits an approachable organisation better than a corporate one, and Fluid Engine means it is 7.1 only.
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4. Reach by Happenstance
Best for: New and growing nonprofits, and appeal or campaign microsites where the founder maintains the site.
Reach is described by Happenstance as a template for budding nonprofits and service-based organisations, and it is built around landing-page style layouts with clear calls to action. The eleven pages include Home, Team, Services, Impact, Resources, News, Hiring, Donate, a password-protected board or client portal, Contact and a 404, plus three blog post layouts. Happenstance include a custom Squarespace training course and a pre-launch checklist, which is genuinely useful when the person updating the site is a volunteer rather than a designer.
Honest caveat: the marketing-led tone can feel commercial for a small community charity, and there is no events collection, so if you run a regular programme of events you will add Squarespace's events page yourself. If your work is education-led, Happenstance's Blossom is the sibling template, built for course structure and learner resources, and it also comes with the training course.
5. Grant by Applet Studio
Best for: Foundations, grant-making bodies and advisory charities that need to look established rather than grassroots.
Grant is Applet Studio's more formal template. The designer lists non-profits among its intended users alongside financial firms, lawyers and startups, and the demo is set up as a professional advisory practice: Home, About, Services, Case Studies, Blog, Contact and a Sales page among its thirteen pages. That case study structure is the reason it is here. If your organisation's main job online is to explain what it does and show evidence of results, Grant does that with a serious, minimal tone that suits foundations and social enterprises.
Honest caveat: there is no donate page in the demo, so a fundraising charity would build one with Squarespace's donation block, and the demo copy about financial reviews will need rewriting throughout. If fundraising is the main purpose of your site, Fidelity from the same studio is the closer fit. Do not buy both.
6. Evermore by GoLive
Best for: Churches and membership-led community organisations that need to welcome newcomers.
GoLive built Evermore as a church website template, and it is worth being clear about that. The demo is arranged around a first-time visitor: Home, About, Visit, Small Groups, Events, Give and Contact. That structure translates well to any organisation whose site needs to welcome people, list what is on and take gifts, which is why it earns its place in a nonprofit guide. GoLive deliver it as a new Squarespace site within 24 hours with video tutorials, and everything is edited with Squarespace's built-in style editor. The events page uses Squarespace's native events collection, so recurring listings work as expected.
Honest caveat: the demo copy is written for a congregation, so a secular charity will be rewriting the language on every page rather than just swapping images. The Give buttons use Squarespace's donation block, which needs a Business plan or above and a connected Stripe or PayPal account, and there is no Gift Aid handling.
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7. Safe Haven by Websites By Elise
Best for: Churches and faith communities.
Safe Haven is designed specifically for churches and faith communities, and the demo is warm rather than corporate. The twelve pages include Home, About, Worship, Ministries, Events, Sermons, Donate, Plan Your Visit and Contact, with the legal pages and a custom 404 included. The practical win is that events and sign-ups are handled with Squarespace's own tools rather than a separate service, and Elise offers a done-for-you installation into an existing 7.1 site as an add-on.
Honest caveat: it is built for faith organisations, so a secular charity will be rewriting most of the demo content, from the ministries page to the sermon archive. The sign-up forms are Squarespace forms, which collect names and emails but do not handle ticketing or capacity limits, so for those you will still want a booking plugin (see below).
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8. Little Sprouts by Emily Kay
Best for: Playgroups, community childcare and family-focused charities.
Emily Kay built Little Sprouts as a daycare template, sold through the SquareKicker template store, and the demo is set up as a nursery with a curriculum page, a book-a-visit page and an FAQ. I include it because community playgroups, preschools and family charities share exactly that shape: explain what you offer, answer parents' questions, invite them to visit. There are eleven page layouts (services, landing, about, people, blog, contact, form, information, FAQ, legal and 404) and 31 sections including reviews, newsletter and gallery.
Honest caveat: there is no donate page, so a charity will add Squarespace's donation block, and the friendly styling will need heavy restyling for a policy charity or professional body. It installs through the SquareKicker Template Engine; the purchase is one-off and includes a 30-day SquareKicker trial, but editing the design and animation settings after the trial needs a SquareKicker subscription.
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9. High Speed by GoLive
Best for: Small organisations and social enterprises whose site is really about two or three programmes.
High Speed is GoLive's bold, modern template for service-based organisations, and the designer names coaches and churches among its audience rather than charities specifically. The structure is lean: Home, About, three Offering pages and Contact. That maps neatly onto a small community organisation that delivers a handful of programmes and wants people to enquire, and it is the most direct-looking template in this list. GoLive deliver it as a new Squarespace site within 24 hours with video instructions.
Honest caveat: there is no donate page, no events collection and no blog in the included pages, so a fundraising charity will be adding all three with Squarespace's own tools. At the time of writing the public demo was offline, so judge it from GoLive's screenshots and walkthrough video and check the page list on their site before buying.
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10. Brightside Day by Kristine Neil
Best for: A single fundraiser, awareness day or community event.
Brightside Day is a one-page Squarespace 7.1 template built for single-day events, volunteer initiatives and neighbourhood campaigns, sold through the SquareKicker template store. It does one job: tell people what is happening, when, and how to sign up, with nine sections covering the hero, event overview, gallery, FAQ, info card and sign-up form. If you are running an annual fun run or an awareness campaign and want a site live in an afternoon, this is the shape you want.
Honest caveat: one page means one page. It does not scale into a full organisational site with a blog, governance pages and a donate flow, so treat it as a campaign microsite alongside your main site. Like Little Sprouts, it installs through the SquareKicker Template Engine, and editing its animation settings after the 30-day trial needs a SquareKicker subscription.
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What a Nonprofit Website Actually Needs
A template gives you layout and tone. It does not give you the plumbing, and the plumbing is where charity sites usually fall over.
Donations
Squarespace offers two routes. The donation block takes one-off and recurring gifts through Stripe or PayPal and is available on the Business plan and above. For anything more involved, Squarespace commerce lets you sell memberships, tickets and merchandise alongside donations. Neither route handles Gift Aid declarations out of the box, so UK charities usually add a declaration to a form or link out to a dedicated fundraising platform for larger appeals. Decide this first, because it determines where the "Donate" button actually goes.
Event and campaign pages
Several of the templates above include an events page. Check whether it is Squarespace's native events collection (good for recurring listings with dates) or a set of static sections (better for a single campaign). Reach, Grant, Little Sprouts and High Speed have no events page in the demo, so you would add one.
Volunteer forms
A volunteer form should ask for the minimum: name, contact, interests, availability. Squarespace forms send submissions to email or Google Sheets, which is enough for most small organisations. For rotas or shift bookings you will want a scheduling tool, covered below.
Accessibility and trust
Funders and larger donors look for a registered charity number, trustees, an annual report and a privacy policy. Put them in the footer of every page. Then check colour contrast, alt text on images and that every form can be completed with a keyboard. The templates here are a reasonable starting point, but every colour or font change can undo it, so test again after customising.
Tools Worth Adding to a Nonprofit Template
The right template gets you most of the way. These are the add-ons I reach for on charity builds.
- Event and volunteer bookings: if you need capacity limits, ticketing or shift sign-ups, see my guide to the best Squarespace booking and calendar plugins.
- Donation and review widgets: Elfsight offers a donation button widget and a Google Reviews widget, both of which drop into any of these templates with a code block. My Elfsight review covers which widgets are worth it.
- Search visibility: SEOSpace is a Squarespace-specific SEO plugin that audits every page; my SEOSpace review explains what it does and does not do.
- Design tweaks without code: SquareKicker lets you adjust spacing and layouts visually, which is how I match a template to a charity's brand guidelines, and it is also the engine behind the Little Sprouts and Brightside Day templates above. My SquareKicker review and our SquareKicker page have the detail.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best Squarespace template for a nonprofit?
Fidelity by Applet Studio is my overall pick for 2026 because its demo already has impact, support us and donate pages in a structure funders recognise. Venture by Studio Mesa is the pick for project-led organisations, and Non Profit by Kseniia Krasilich for smaller charities.
Can you take donations on Squarespace?
Yes. Squarespace's donation block accepts one-off and recurring donations through Stripe or PayPal on the Business plan and above, and Squarespace commerce can sell tickets, memberships and merchandise alongside.
Does Squarespace support Gift Aid?
Not natively. UK charities usually add a Gift Aid declaration to a form on the site or link to an external fundraising platform for larger appeals.
Is Squarespace good for charities?
For most small and medium charities, yes. It is easy for volunteers to update and the templates here handle donations and events well. Very large organisations with complex donor databases may outgrow it.
What pages should a charity website have?
At minimum: home, about (including trustees and your charity number), what we do, how to help (donate, volunteer, fundraise), events or news, and contact.
Do I need a nonprofit-specific template?
Not strictly, but it saves time. A nonprofit template already has donation prompts, event sections and impact storytelling laid out, so you spend your effort on content rather than structure.
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Final Thoughts
If I had to choose one, it would be Fidelity for a general charity, Venture for a project-led organisation, Reach for a campaign, Safe Haven or Evermore for a church and Brightside Day for a single event. The rest of the list is there because charities are not all the same, and the right answer depends on whether your site's main job is fundraising, recruiting volunteers or explaining your work to funders.
Whichever you pick, sort out your donation route and trust signals first. A good template makes those easy to present; it cannot make up for them being missing.
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