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02/07/2025

Thinking about a new website for your charity or nonprofit? Choosing the right platform is a big decision, and WordPress can often be a viable option.

In our latest blog, we explore when WordPress is right for your organisation, and how Bliss can help you make the most of it.

https://www.thisisbliss.com/articles-advice/why-choose-wordpress-build-your-charity-or-nonprofit-website

01/07/2025

It’s Plastic Free July! Learn more about this fantastic initiative: https://www.plasticfreejuly.org

As a B Corp and social enterprise, committed to Net Zero, and members of the Better Business Act, sustainability is really important to us. Reducing plastic waste isn’t just a personal choice – it’s a meaningful step towards protecting our planet.

Our team are already committed to cutting down their single-use plastic usage and, throughout July, we’ll be sharing some of the things we do, alongside useful tips and insights to help encourage more sustainable choices.

25/06/2025

Parkinson's Europe has been championing and working with the global Parkinson’s community for over 30 years.

They asked Bliss to redesign and rebuild their website – combining it with their popular online magazine – to better serve people living with Parkinson’s. Through in-depth audience research and UX design, we created an accessible, unified site that exceeded expectations and supports their mission for the long term.

"Working with Bliss on our new website has been a seamless experience from start to finish. The whole team is friendly, reliable and hugely generous with their time and ideas, and we couldn’t be more thrilled with the finished website. It was a huge undertaking to consolidate such a lot of important content into a fresh design that would help our website visitors easily find the information they need, but Bliss’ clear communication and organised project management style throughout helped us feel supported every step of the way. Thank you!"

Parkinson's Europe

23/06/2025

Today is International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), the primary annual event of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES).

WES is a membership organisation that supports women and girls to fulfil their potential in the engineering industry. Launched in 2014, INWED is now a global movement, shining a light on women’s achievements and inspiring the next generation.

Despite the huge progress made, engineering is still male-dominated, with women accounting for just 16.5% of UK engineers overall. Their theme this year, , celebrates the best, brightest, and bravest women in engineering – working together to drive change.

We’ve been proud to support the Women’s Engineering Society over the years, including promotion of past INWED events, and look forward to seeing all the updates about INWED events across the globe!

There are loads of resources to help educate and support the movement here: https://www.inwed.org.uk/resources-2025/
These include routes into engineering and step-by-step guides, STEM learning for schools, and social media graphics to show your support

You can also sign up to their monthly newsletter here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/bfQaCFC/wessignup

19/06/2025

Semrush recently conducted a study, investigating the impact of AI-driven search (e.g. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI) and its potential impact on the future digital landscape – and it’s certainly something digital marketers need to pay attention to.

Its top-level findings were:

👉 Within 3 years, AI Search visitors will surpass traditional search visitors
👉 If Google’s Overviews expand further, and their AI Mode experiment fully rolls out, this could happen far quicker
👉 AI search visitors are expected to convert over 4 times better than traditional search traffic

However, other studies challenge the projected conversion rates of AI search, instead suggesting users are far less likely to engage than traditional organic search. In other words, AI-driven search appears most useful for early-stage, informational queries, as opposed to high-intent transactional behaviour.

But what does that mean for your organisation?

If people become more reliant on AI results, this means a drop in users visiting multiple websites, compressing the marketing funnel. As some AI results don’t include source links to content, or links are less visible, it’s likely a reduction in clickthroughs will also occur.

Therefore, you will need to optimise your content to allow AI to easily cite it. So, clearly sectioning your content, Q&A formats, and having authoritative sources.

Read the full findings here: https://www.semrush.com/blog/ai-search-seo-traffic-study/

This is a significant shift in the digital landscape, and one that will need a very close eye to understand the full impact, and what can be done to mitigate the challenges this may bring.

Our research shows AI search visitors could surpass traditional search visitors in 2028. Plus much more.

06/06/2025

Using paid marketing to advertise across the internet can help charities and nonprofits precisely target potential supporters, advocates and donors.

Tools – including Google Ad Grants – can immediately boost visibility, drive donations, promote events and support long-term growth. They can provide measurable return on investment (ROI) and analytics, to track performance, and offer scalability and control over your budget.

Paid strategies are often combined with organic marketing to provide the best of both worlds: quick results and enhanced brand awareness, alongside sustained credibility and engagement.

At Bliss, we offer paid marketing support to help your organisation achieve its goals, including:

🔸 Managing Google Ad Grants. We can support you in applying for and managing the free, monthly $10,000 grant available to charities.

🔸 Managing LinkedIn Ad Grants. Similarly, LinkedIn offer ad grants to specified nonprofits with annual application periods. We can help guide you through the application process, and manage the account to maximise its value.

🔸 Providing setup and consultancy on paid adverts. We can create accounts, set up tracking and give best practice advice for your paid campaigns.

🔸 Managing paid advertising. Either on a monthly retainer or as a project, we can manage your adverts and campaigns on Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads), Google, Bing, YouTube or LinkedIn.

We are always happy to discuss your organisation’s paid marketing needs, and how we might be of service.

05/06/2025

Today is , and this year, the focus is plastic pollution.

Plastic pollution is a significant issue, infiltrating the entire planet, and even affecting our bodies through microplastic ingestion. World Environment Day 2025 calls for collective action to address this.

So, how can you help to ?

The World Environment Day campaign aims to highlight real-world solutions to inspire people, businesses, industries and governments to embrace sustainable practices that drive lasting change.

It’s suggested that a comprehensive circular economy approach would offer a sustainable path forward, potentially reducing the volume of plastics entering oceans by over 80%, saving governments a massive $70 billion over 20 years.

It has been shown that recycling is not enough, with around 21% of plastic currently economically recyclable, and only a small proportion – estimated at 9% - being recycled globally.

Therefore, we must rethink our use of plastics. Manufacturing plastic products designed to be used more than once – and recycled at the end of their life – could be part of the solution, but in order for this to work, all stakeholders would need to be on board to drive this transition.

At Bliss, we are committed to reducing our environmental impact and continually improving sustainability as part of our core business practices – underpinned by comprehensive sustainability policies including Virtual Office Stewardship – while encouraging others to do the same. B Corp Certified, we are a business that meets the high standards of social and environmental impact, transparency, and accountability, using business as a force for good.

We believe small adjustments to our everyday routines can collectively make a big impact, such as rethinking our consumption of single-use plastics and choosing more sustainable alternatives in our daily work and lives. In previous years, we’ve shared tips with each other around reducing our plastic usage during Plastic Free July – another great initiative that we look forward to again this year.

To find out more about World Environment Day and watch the campaign video, visit: https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/

20/05/2025

For over a decade, we've had the privilege of partnering with The New Humanitarian, a UN-affiliated news outlet focused on humanitarian and human rights reporting.

Transitioning to full independence from the United Nations, we helped transform their digital presence through development of a new multilingual Drupal site. This collaboration included extensive article and content migration, and, more recently, facilitating user experience improvements alongside an infrastructure rebuild.

“The website Bliss delivered is faster, simpler, easier to search, and looks great on mobiles and tablets. It allows us to deliver more dynamic and visual content, on a range of platforms, as we continue to develop our storytelling. We passionately believe that with the right combination of on-the-ground reporting and flexible content delivery, we can make more people care, understand and act on the many crises around the world.”

14/05/2025

Bliss are specialists in Drupal development. It’s our forte, and we love it! Our deep technical expertise ensures website builds that are robust, scalable, future-proof - and fully bespoke to your requirements.

How can we help your nonprofit, charity or social enterprise boost its digital presence and achieve impactful results?

💻 We create custom Drupal builds – Our team can implement solutions to fit your specific requirements, aligning with your organisation's goals.

🔐 We implement secure and scalable architectures – We develop secure, scalable architectures as standard, to future-proof for growth.

🧩 We develop and integrate custom modules – Our Drupal expertise allows us to build and integrate custom modules, extending functionality and providing tailored features

⚙️ We conduct thorough testing and optimisation – We know how to fine-tune every aspect, ensuring your Drupal site performs optimally.

🔄 We provide ongoing support and maintenance – Our monthly retainer packages allow you to focus on your mission, whilst we take care of your website.

If you’re looking for a bespoke, first-class website solution, get in touch for a chat!

25/11/2024

We're hiring! If you're a senior marketing manager that wants to work with our nonprofit clients, please take a look at our ad on CharityJob: https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/bliss-the-digital-agency-for-nonprofits/marketing-and-growth-manager/995716?tsId=8

21/10/2024

Meet Jeremy, our Lead Backend Developer

🧑‍💻 Describe your job in five words: Challenging, Creative, Rewarding, Learning, Honest.

🌎 What cause are you most passionate about supporting? Water Aid

☕ Your usual coffee shop order: No Coffee for me. It's Hot Chocolate with all the extras.

📺 Show you recommend: Love Action + Sci-fi Movies. Currently rewatching Andor - it's even better the second time around.

💿 Random fun fact about you: I love coaching athletics, as a volunteer. It's been my passion for a decade now, and the golden rule I always stick to is keeping it fun.

15/10/2024

A well-designed landing page can be a make or break for generating leads, attracting donors and raising awareness. But how do you create a landing page that resonates with your audience and drives them to take action?

https://buff.ly/3UaTg4m