WEBSITES FOR CICs
Your website's first job: explain what a CICactually is.
Most people don't know what a CIC is, and most websites don't help. You're not quite a charity and not quite a normal business - you're something more specific than either, with a community benefit that deserves to be explained clearly, not buried in small print.
Company & Purpose
Built for the dual identity - a registered company with a locked-in community mission, not a template built for one or the other.
Explained clearly
We make your asset lock and community benefit legible to a visitor, not just compliant on paper.
Every project
Fixed scope, same senior team — whether you're a CIC or a client ten times the size.
WHAT WE DO
Every digital serviceyour CIC will need.
Everything below is available for CICs across the UK. We'll bring your brand to life, and support your mission through the power of digital.
Web Development
A site that explains your structure as clearly as your mission - fast, accessible, built by the same senior team throughout.
Bespoke Software
Community benefit reporting, member portals, or anything your specific CIC model needs that a template can't do.
SEO & Marketing
Search and campaigns that reach the community you actually serve, not just anyone searching generically.
Project Management
Structured delivery with real stakes - your funders and community are watching, not just your board.
Strategy & Consultancy
A senior second opinion on how to present a structure most visitors won't recognise on sight.
Care & Maintenance
Updates, security and backups, looked after long after launch - same as everything else we build.
Why Harri Digital
Same discipline,wherever you're calling from.
Whether you're a CIC that's been running for a decade, or just starting up.
We explain the structure, not just the brand
A CIC isn't a charity and isn't a normal company. We make sure your site says which one you are, clearly, in the first ten seconds.
Transparency isn't an afterthought
Asset lock, community benefit, where the money actually goes — we treat this as a trust-building feature, not a compliance footnote.
Same senior team, same fixed scope
No junior handoff, no surprise invoice — the same standard whether you're a CIC, a charity, or a national retailer.
HOW WE WORK WITH CICS
The same rhythm,whatever you're structured as.
Monday
Priorities set - including how clearly your structure needs to come across, not just your services.
Midweek
Blockers cleared. If "how do we explain the asset lock" is one of them, we walk through it properly.
Friday
A one-page status, readable by your board and your community in the same five minutes.
Fortnightly
A demo of working software - progress you can click, not just take our word for.
Monthly
Budget and risk reviewed honestly, the same as we'd want to see if we were you.
CIC, charity, or something else - worth getting right
A CIC isn't a charity, and it isn't a typical limited company either - it's a structure built specifically to lock assets and profits into a community benefit, while still operating as a genuine trading business.
That distinction matters to funders, to your community, and increasingly to search engines trying to understand what your organisation actually is. We build sites that make the structure legible, not just the branding - because a visitor who understands what you are is more likely to trust what you're asking them to do.
Questions
The questions,and the answers.
Is a CIC the same as a charity?
No. A CIC is a company structure with a locked-in community benefit and restrictions on how profits and assets can be used - but it's still a trading company, not a registered charity, and it doesn't get charitable tax status. That distinction is worth your website explaining clearly, since a lot of visitors won't know it.
Do you build in space for community benefit reporting?
Yes - we can build pages or sections specifically for your community benefit statement, annual reporting, or anything the CIC Regulator expects you to make visible.
We're a small CIC with a tight budget - can you still help?
Yes. We work with organisations at every scale, and we'll scope a project against your actual budget, not a standard rate that assumes charity-sized funding.
Do you work with CICs outside Plymouth?
Yes, UK-wide. Video calls and shared documents mean the work runs the same way regardless of where you're based.