GDPR for Charities
Practical GDPR support for charities and third sector organisations, covering donors, beneficiaries, volunteers and staff, sized to your resources.
Charity Data Protection
Charities hold personal data about donors, supporters, beneficiaries, volunteers, trustees and staff. Much of it is sensitive, particularly where you support people with health, housing, financial or safeguarding needs.
We help charities understand their GDPR obligations and put proportionate arrangements in place, recognising that many teams are small and rely on volunteers. That includes clear privacy information, appropriate lawful bases and secure handling of special category data.
Our services for charities
In the charity sector, personal data carries particular regulatory sensitivity, from the volume and type of data processed to the expectations of the people it belongs to. We provide data protection compliance consulting tailored to those realities, combining expert-level knowledge of data protection law with practical, sector-aware advice on policy, training, incident management and regulatory risk. Whether you need a compliance framework built from scratch or an existing one reviewed and strengthened, we help charities meet their obligations with confidence and put data protection into practice.
Fundraising, Donors and Supporters
Fundraising depends on trust, and how you use supporters' data is central to it. We help charities review their fundraising and marketing activities, including Gift Aid records, supporter databases, email and phone campaigns, and any research into potential donors.
Our support takes account of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), fundraising regulation standards and the expectations of your charity regulator.
GDPR Training for Charities
Staff and volunteers are often the first line of defence against a data breach. We provide GDPR training for charities that is practical, role-based and suited to people with different levels of experience, from trustees to front-line volunteers.
Training can be combined with policy reviews, breach procedures and support with subject access requests so your whole organisation knows what to do.
Beneficiary and Safeguarding Data
Supporting vulnerable people often means handling health, safeguarding and other special category data. We help you set clear rules on access, sharing and retention so this information is protected.
Support Sized for Small Charities
Smaller charities need proportionate compliance, not a corporate programme. We focus on the policies, records and processes that matter most and help you prioritise within your resources.
Retention and transparency for a UK charity
A UK charity was keeping personal data for too long and its policies were out of date. Our team reviewed and updated its privacy notice, and produced a data retention policy with procedures for sharing sensitive personal data internally.
Read more →GDPR for Charities FAQs
Yes. GDPR applies to charities of every size whenever they process personal data about donors, supporters, beneficiaries, volunteers, staff or trustees. Charities also need to follow PECR for electronic fundraising and marketing.
Not every charity needs one. A Data Protection Officer (DPO) is required where core activities involve large-scale processing of special category data or large-scale regular monitoring. Many charities that support vulnerable people should check carefully, and an outsourced DPO can be a proportionate option.
Why organisations choose us
Senior expertise
You work directly with an experienced data protection consultant, not a junior team. The person who scopes your project is the person who delivers it.
Clear communication
We explain what the law requires, what it means for you and what to do next, in plain English.
Practical, proportionate advice
We focus on what matters for your organisation: risk-based recommendations and documents your team will actually use.
Tailored to your organisation
We shape our work around your size, sector, systems and appetite for risk.
Not sure this is the right place to start?
The free review tells you where you stand across the whole organisation, and what's worth doing first. It's the same starting point for every engagement we run.