Parish websites

Designed, built and kept for you.

Beautifully designed websites that your
parish can be proud of.

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  • Hosted in the UK on renewable energy
  • Trusted support team
  • Your domain stays in your name

What we hear

“The person who built it moved in 2021 and we’ve struggled to keep the site up to date since.”

“We wanted to make some simple updates and ended up crashing the website completely.”

“Our website doesn’t look as good as it did when it was first built.”

“The one person who runs our website isn’t always around, and the rest of the team can’t make updates.”

“Our website is too hard to update, so we end up with out of date information on the homepage.”

“It looks good on a desktop but doesn’t work on a phone, which is what our congregation rely on.”

We hear this all the time. A website built once and handed over will always drift. This is why we offer a subscription that keeps your parish online, rather than an expensive one-off build that breaks.

What we offer

Designed with your parish in mind

Beautiful layoutsSimple, elegant and easy to use. Designed so that anyone arriving finds what they came for without having to think about it.
Fully personalisedMake the site yours with your own imagery, colours and sections to suit parish needs.
Accessible for allDesktop, mobile and tablet responsive so everyone can access what they need.

Easy to update, hard to break

Service times and this week’s newsletterThe two things almost everyone comes looking for, at the top of the page. Update with just a few clicks.
Events, groups and room hireA calendar that puts itself in order, entries that disappear once they have happened, and hall hire with rates and an enquiry button.
Safeguarding, where it should beYour safeguarding contacts on the front page, and important documents easy to access.

Kept working for your peace of mind

Monthly checkupsLinks, forms and speed checked every month, with a short note on what we found and fixed.
Security and backupsUpdates on a schedule. Backed up daily, kept thirty days, tested quarterly.
Problem solvingEmail a named person if you have any problems and we’ll aim to get you back up and running within 24 hours.

Take a look around

St Cuthbert’s is our demonstration parish

Everything a parish needs is already there: service times, the weekly bulletin, what’s on, hall hire, people and safeguarding. Designed to work beautifully on desktop, tablet and mobile.

A mockup of St Cuthbert’s home page shown on a desktop computer and a phone. It carries the church’s opening hours and telephone number, its name and crest, a menu of Mass times, what’s on, people, hall hire, news and contact, a welcome headline, a photograph of the church in an arch, and the week’s Mass times along the bottom.

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Subscription

Everything included, nothing up front

Published, because a treasurer needs a figure rather than a discovery call.

Foundation

For a single parish. Built for a church, not adapted from a business template. Then looked after, so you never feel alone in running your website.

Nothing to pay up frontNo build fee and no deposit. Design, build and launch are all part of the subscription, so the first thing your PCC approves is a monthly figure.
Everything includedHosting, updates, backups, security, training and support. There is nothing else to buy and no surprises on the invoice.
Three months to change your mindIf it is not right for your parish in the first three months after launch, tell us and we will refund every penny you have paid.
Twelve months, then thirty days’ noticeAfter the first year you can leave whenever you like. Your domain and your content are yours, and always were.

£79 a monthOr £870 a year, which works out at £72.50 a month

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Colonnade

For several churches. A benefice, a group of parishes, or a whole deanery.

Everything above, for each churchThe same product, the same care, on every site.
Each church keeps its own identityShared where it helps, separate where it matters. Publish an event once and it appears wherever it should.
One conversation, one invoiceRather than the same discussion eight times over.

Let’s talkWe work out a price based on the number of churches.

Talk to us about a group

Three months to change your mind

If your new website is not right for your parish, tell us within three months of it going live and we will give you a full refund. We want to be sure the product is right for you.

Book a demo and we will show you how your site would work before you commit to anything. Prices include VAT. The subscription starts on the day your site goes live. Pay monthly by Direct Debit, or yearly by invoice if that suits your treasurer better. Twelve months to begin with, then thirty days’ notice at any time. If you tell us within three months of launch that it is not right, we refund everything you have paid; we then take the site down and send you an export of your content, and your domain stays with you. The design and the underlying code remain ours throughout. Full terms are set out in the contract, which we send before you have to decide anything.

Why we started The Keep

Ant Conlin Founder of The Keep

Ant Conlin founded The Keep after identifying an issue many parishes were having. During covid, when everything a church did suddenly had to work online, he offered to help his local parish sort out their website. It was creaky, awkward to change, and had not kept up with what the parish actually needed it to do.

Fixing that one site was straightforward enough. What was harder to ignore was how many other parishes were in exactly the same position. A site set up years ago by a volunteer who had since moved on. Nobody quite sure who held the password. Hours wasted that were needed elsewhere, and money going out on something that was not really working.

The Keep was set up to provide churches, communities and parishes with beautifully designed websites that don’t cost the earth, can be easily updated by team members, and come with professional backup to help keep them running smoothly.

Questions people ask

The ones that come up most. Anything else, please get in touch.

How long does it take?

About seven weeks from the first conversation to going live. After the initial conversation, we’ll have your site built out in about two to three weeks, which then gives us time to address your feedback before the site goes live.

What if we have an existing site? How do we move over?

Your existing site stays live whilst we work. We build the new one on a private address only you and we can see, and switch it over once you are happy.

Who owns our domain?

You own your content, your photographs and your domain. It’s likely you’ll already have your domain registration set up, which we can point to our hosting servers once you are happy for the site to go live. If you don’t have a domain already, we’ll help you register one in your name so you keep full control.

If you do not know who currently holds your domain, tell us your address and we will look it up and tell you, free, before you have committed to anything. A surprising number of parishes find it is still in the name of a volunteer who left years ago.

What are the payment terms?

There is nothing to pay up front. No build fee, no deposit. Your subscription is £79 a month including VAT, or £870 a year if you would rather pay annually, which works out at £72.50 a month. It starts on the day your site goes live. The design and build work is covered by the subscription, which is why we ask for twelve months to begin with.

What if it is not right for us?

Tell us within three months of your site going live and we will refund every penny you have paid. No argument and no small print about it.

If you do leave that way, we take the site down and send you an export of everything you have put into it: your words, your photographs, your documents. Your domain stays in your name, as it always was. What we keep is the design and the code underneath, which remain ours.

We ask two things in return, and only so the refund is fair on both sides: that someone at the parish has come to the handover session, and that you have given us the content we asked for. We cannot refund a site nobody ever used.

What about email?

We will leave this one to you. We don’t like to interfere with your team emails, as we believe privacy here is key. We also believe that securing an inbox with the likes of Gmail or Microsoft are the strongest options.

See it for yourself

We will walk you through a short demonstration of how your website would look and work, and answer whatever you want to ask. Thirty minutes, no pitch deck, and no obligation. If we are not the right fit we will say so.

Book a demo enquiries@thekeepwebsites.co.uk