A curated, UK-leaning list of digital agencies serving charities, social justice, and civil society.

• Torchbox – employee-owned; Wagtail CMS creators; deep nonprofit track record. ([Torchbox][1])
• Reason Digital – builds sites, apps, and tools for charities; impact-focused. ([Reason Digital][2])
• Fat Beehive – charity website specialists; long-standing sector focus. ([Fat Beehive][3])
• The Developer Society (DEV) – UK not-for-profit co-op working exclusively with charities/NGOs. ([The Developer Society][4])

• DataKind UK – volunteer data & digital projects. ([DataKind UK][1])
• Digital Candle – free 1-hour advice calls for charities. ([digitalcandle.org.uk][2])
• CodeYourFuture – volunteer to teach/mentor. ([CodeYourFuture][3])
• codebar – coach at inclusive coding workshops. ([codebar][4])
• AbilityNet “ITCanHelp” – accessibility-minded tech support volunteering. ([abilitynet.org.uk][5])
• Reach Volunteering – skills-based volunteering marketplace. ([reachvolunteering.org.uk][6])

Line chart titled “US Unemployment Rate” comparing U-3 (unemployed) and U-6 (under-employed) from Dec 2016–Dec 2022. Both series are steady and slowly falling through 2019, then spike sharply at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (U-3 ~15%, U-6 ~23%) and decline through 2021–2022. By late 2022 U-3 is ~3–4% and U-6 ~6–7%. U-6 is consistently higher than U-3 throughout.

• What the chart shows: Two lines: an olive line for Unemployed (U-3) and a blue line for Under-employed (U-6), plotted as percent of the labor force on the y-axis (3%–23%) across time on the x-axis (Dec 2016 to Dec 2022).
• Series meaning (context):

A collection of CLI tools I use (or have used). Most can be installed using your *nix distro’s package manager, or with Scoop on Windows. If you’re not already using Scoop, it's definitely worth trying.

A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

Here’s a detailed summary of Andy Masley’s post “Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment – a cheat sheet”, which distils his core arguments, data points, and rhetorical strategies:

ChatGPT o4-mini-high; 2025-05-17

On average, studies show that a heavyweight ad- and tracker-blocker like uBlock Origin saves around a third of the data you’d otherwise download – and in concrete terms:

• Bandwidth saved per page load
  In a diverse set of real-world tests on hundreds of popular sites, the average bandwidth saving from ad- and tracker-blocking was 899 KB (with a median of just under 500 KB and a 95th-percentile of 2.76 MB) (Brave). This corresponds to roughly 25–34 % less data transferred compared with no blocker (arXiv).
• CO₂e saved per page load

Produced by ChatGPT o3; 2025-05-16; thought for 1m28s – see Appendix

Explore the veracity of this claim:

Based on the older figures, some people have estimated that their own emails will generate 1.6kg (3.5lb) CO2e in a single day. Berners-Lee himself also calculated that a typical business user creates 135kg (298lbs) CO2e from sending emails every year, which is the equivalent of driving 200 miles in a family car.