After eight months of trading, Harri Digital has officially launched, backed by funding from the King's Trust. It is a small moment in the life of our young business, but a meaningful one. It marks the point where what started as a Plymouth-based studio quietly taking on client work becomes a digital agency with a clear remit: building platforms that help mission-led organisations grow.
This post sets out what Harri Digital does, why the King's Trust backing matters, and what comes next.
The problem we exist to solve
Hospices, charities, grassroots sports clubs, schools, and small mission-led businesses all face the same digital problem. The tools built for them are usually one of two things. Either they are off-the-shelf platforms designed for a generic market, which means the fit is poor and the cost adds up quickly. Or they are bespoke builds priced for corporate budgets, which puts them out of reach.
The result is that the organisations doing some of the most important work in their communities are also the ones most often left behind by the digital tools they need. Fundraising leaks through clunky systems. Supporter engagement happens on platforms that take a heavy cut. Operations run on spreadsheets and goodwill.
Harri Digital was set up to close that gap - building digital products that fit the way mission-led organisations actually work, at prices that respect the margins those organisations operate on.
The core agency: client work across education, retail, and sport
The foundation of Harri Digital is bespoke client work. Over the past seven months, we've built websites, software, and digital systems for businesses and organisations across three core sectors.
In education, we have helped training providers, and learning-focused organisations strengthen their digital presence and improve the way they communicate with parents, learners, and stakeholders. Good educational websites need to do a lot at once. They need to convert prospective families, serve current ones, support staff, and meet accessibility standards. Getting that balance right is detail work.
In retail, we have worked with independent and ethical retailers on websites, e-commerce builds, and brand presence. Smaller retailers compete against marketplaces and chains with vastly larger budgets, so the digital work has to earn its keep. Every page needs to be useful, every load fast, every checkout step trusted.
In sport, our work runs from club websites through to fundraising activation campaigns for grassroots organisations. Sport at the community level is where culture is made and where budgets are tightest, so the brief is usually some version of doing more with less. We have spent a lot of time on what that means in practice.
The agency work is the engine. It funds the studio, sharpens our skills, and keeps us close to the realities of running a small organisation. It also feeds directly into the platforms we are building, which is where this story goes next.
The platforms: building on what the agency does best
Working with hospices, sports clubs, and mission-led businesses over the past seven months made one thing clear. The same problems came up again and again. Rather than rebuilding solutions from scratch for every client, it made more sense to build proper platforms, designed for the sector, that any organisation could pick up and use.
That thinking led to two products at the heart of what Harri Digital is building.
Luminary is a memorial platform built specifically for UK hospices. It gives hospice teams a way to offer families a meaningful, lasting digital tribute experience, while opening up a recurring revenue stream that supports the cost of care. Luminary is offered as a white-label product, which means each hospice can run it under its own brand. It is the result of months of conversations with hospice teams, plus the technical foundations that come from our wider agency work. You can read more about Luminary here.
My Club Pitch is a fully digital fundraising platform for grassroots sports clubs and broader causes. Supporters sponsor squares on a virtual pitch, dedicate them to someone or something that matters, and the club receives the majority of the funds raised. There are no draws, no prizes, no chance element. It is a simple, transparent way for clubs to raise meaningful money from supporters anywhere in the world, not just those who turn up on a Saturday. My Club Pitch launches publicly next month. You can read more here.
Both platforms are direct extensions of what the agency has been doing for clients. The infrastructure, the design system, the approach to user experience, and the understanding of what small mission-led organisations actually need have all been built in the course of regular client work. The platforms are what happens when that knowledge gets pointed at a problem worth solving at scale.
Why the King's Trust matters
The King's Trust supports founders with funding, mentoring, and access to a community of people who have built businesses from scratch. For Harri Digital, that support has arrived at the right moment. The agency is moving from finding its feet to scaling its work, and the funding gives us room to invest in the platforms that take longer to build than a typical client project.
It also means we can keep pricing fair for the kinds of organisations we want to serve. Hospices, charities, schools, and clubs cannot absorb large up-front fees, so the platforms have to be built in a way that is sustainable for everyone involved.
There is a credibility dimension too. Mission-led organisations need to know the people building their tools are accountable and serious about what they do. King's Trust backing is a signal that helps confirm that, and it sits alongside the work itself as a piece of evidence that Harri Digital is here for the long term.
What comes next
Over the coming months, expect to see Pitch launch publicly, more hospices come onboard with Luminary, and continued growth across the bespoke work in education, retail, and sport. We will keep writing here about what we are learning, what is working, and what we are building.
If you are running a mission-led organisation and want to talk about what we could build together, get in touch.
