Laura Hope Foundation
Publishing the fieldwork of a care and rescue charity
- Client
- Laura Hope Care & Rescue Foundation
- Role
- Lead web developer
- Year
- Sep 2025 — Dec 2025
- Status
- Live
The problem
A charity running feeding, education, outreach and child-welfare programmes had over two hundred photographs of its own fieldwork and nowhere to put them. The site is built around that archive.
Small charities are asked to prove their work constantly, and their evidence is usually trapped in phone galleries and WhatsApp groups. The foundation had the documentation — a couple of hundred photographs from real outreach — but no way for a donor or partner to see any of it before deciding whether to trust them.
How I built it
The gallery is the argument
Rather than a small photo strip under a wall of mission copy, the archive is the primary structure: over two hundred images organised into categories that map to the four programme pillars. A donor can see the work before being asked to read about it.
Built so non-technical staff can keep it current
Programme content and gallery categories are structured as data rather than hand-written pages, so adding a new outreach set doesn't require touching layout code. A charity site that only its developer can update stops being updated.
Built with
- Next.js 15
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS 4
- Framer Motion
Outcome
- 200+ fieldwork photographs published in a categorised gallery
- Four programme pillars — feeding, education, outreach, child welfare — each with its own page
- Content structured so staff can extend it without a developer