Yes, absolutely FREE web site hosting and FREE web site design for "not-for-profit" organisations such as charities, charitable organisations, clubs, community groups, scouts, brownies, religious groups, etc.

I can help you by designing your whole site or if you have your own pages, give you the site and let you control its content.

All that I ask is that I can, with your agreement, put discreet advertising on some or all of your pages to cover my costs.

Web Hosting means having somewhere to put your pages on the Internet so that they are accessible from anywhere in the world. You may already have a small space free if you subscribe to a Broadband package, these normally use an address such as "mypages.broadband.co.uk/ yourname", a bit of a mouth-full if you are putting the address on your literature. Also theses sites have a limited amount of space, very minimal features and of course they assume that you know how to write the pages and use an FTP package to send them to the server! Other companies offer Hosting as a chargeable service but again, they assume that you know how to write a web site and upload the files to the server.

The advantage of UKPages is that it was established as a volunteer service to provide space specifically to not for profit organisations who do not have the money to spend or the in-house expertise to create their own site. I will do everything for you for FREE! I will create your site, write your pages and host it for you all free of charge.

I can register a name for you (yourname.co.uk or yourname.org.uk) or you can share the ukpages address, such as yourname.ukwebpages.org.

If you want more than just a simple on-line catalogue or brochure, then I can even create interactive, tailor made web sites for you. For those of you who are technically minded, we support PHP and MySQL; for everyone else this means that we can create interactive sites that can include databases of products or services, discussion forums for your users, or even web based email for your main users if they don't have their own email provider.

Along with yourname.co.uk, you will want email addresses such as sales@yourname.co.uk, enquiries@... help@... sue@... joe@... etc. We can provide unlimited email addresses that users can pickup using programs such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird etc.

I can also setup Web Email on your site, so users can pick up their email from anywhere in the world with just an Internet Browser.

Email doesn't have to be a mail-box, an address such as enquiries@yourname.co.uk can be forwarded to your personal email so that you don't have to change the way you get email. You could also have an Auto-responder, a message sent back in reply to every message.

We also have Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam software on the Email Server.

No premium telephone numbers, free email, instant messenger and telephone support. Again as a volunteer, I have a full time job which must come first; saying that I am available most days and evenings to help you.

I have been in the computer industry since 1974 and have been designing web sites since 1994. I am not a graphic artist, but I am a good all round technical architect. I can provide help with a wide range of subjects, all free of charge.