A website that carries your mission
Website design for non-profits and associations in Belgium
Members, donors, volunteers, funding bodies: each visits your website with a different question. We design websites for Belgian non-profits (ASBL and VZW) that are clear and alive, easy to run for a non-technical team, on a controlled budget. Custom-built, from Brussels, in French, Dutch or English.
Or start with the website we built for the non-profit La Maison du Cœur, live since 2026.
What your audiences look at
The mission, immediately
Who you help, how, with what impact: a visitor should grasp your reason for being in seconds.
The life of the organisation
Recent news and upcoming events: a dormant website suggests a dormant organisation.
Credibility
Team, members, reports, partners: what a funding body or a future donor checks before committing.
What we build for associations
A custom website, easy to manage and built to grow with your organisation. You edit day-to-day content yourself, on a solid technical base built with Wagtail. The domain name, the content, the data and the code developed for your project belong to you.
- A readable mission and impact: a homepage that says who you are and why it matters.
- News and publications: articles, reports, agenda, published in minutes by your team.
- Volunteers and donations: visible calls to action ("Volunteer", "Donate") connected to your existing tools.
- Members showcased: a directory or network showcase, like the fifty-plus organisations federated by Le Forum.
- Multilingual when needed: French, Dutch, English, depending on your audiences, like the bilingual website of the Fonds Reine Mathilde.
- Visibility: a structure designed so your actions and publications can be found, including in local search.
- Editorial autonomy: designed for rotating teams, staff and volunteers alike.
A non-profit does not communicate like a company. We work with your realities: content approved by the team or the board, subsidised budgets to account for, teams that change, and a duty of transparency towards members and public authorities. The site must stay easy to keep alive, year after year.
They trust us
La Maison du Cœur, a solidarity non-profit in Hannut (2026)
Founded in 1999, the organisation supports people in difficulty through a social grocery, a second-hand shop and direct help for families. The website presents these three activities at a glance, guides visitors towards volunteering and donating, and builds trust with key figures and institutional partners (the Hannut CPAS, Fedasil, ONE). Visit maisonducoeur.be.
- Fonds Reine Mathilde: a WordPress website that had become hard to maintain, taken over then migrated to Wagtail, in French and Dutch, with a dedicated module for calls for projects. Read the project story
- It Takes A Village: the website and event management tool of an initiative supporting the transformation of Brussels nursing homes, with Iriscare and the King Baudouin Foundation. Read the case study
- Le Forum: the Brussels federation against poverty, more than fifty member organisations, an editorial space that is easy to feed. Read the case study
A budget designed for associations
We offer non-profits 10% off all our packages. The Start package begins at EUR 5,000 and covers a polished, manageable presence. A 10 to 30% deposit starts the project, the balance follows the milestones, and once the scope is agreed together, the price is fixed. First-year hosting and team training are included.
Small budget? Discover Kern4Good, our solidarity programme. KERN-IT builds websites at cost price, with no margin, for Belgian associations. Without a budget, your organisation can join a cohort funded by sponsoring companies; with a budget, four cost-price tiers range from EUR 1,200 to EUR 8,000, from a launch site to a complete website. The conditions are on kern4good.be.
Frequently asked questions from associations
From EUR 5,000 for a polished presence, around EUR 12,000 for a custom website that you own. The details are on our packages page, and our article on website prices in Belgium explains what drives the budget. For a personalised estimate, our price calculator answers in two minutes.
KernWeb, the web division of KERN-IT in Brussels, redesigns websites for associations, foundations and European programmes. We handle multilingual content (French, Dutch, English), approval by several teams and the takeover of the existing site without losing search rankings. The Fonds Reine Mathilde, for example, now has a bilingual French and Dutch website that its own team keeps up to date.
Yes, on three levels. First, we offer non-profits 10% off all our packages. Second, our solidarity programme Kern4Good builds websites at cost price: in a cohort funded by sponsoring companies for associations without a budget, or across four tiers from EUR 1,200 to EUR 8,000. Finally, depending on your sector, operating or equipment subsidies can sometimes cover a web project: your funding body remains the best source, and we document the project to support your applications. The Brussels Prime Digitalisation grant, however, targets businesses: most non-profits are not eligible.
Yes, that is the whole point: news, pages, events and members are edited in a few clicks. Hands-on training is included, and the CMS stays simple for teams that change.
Yes. We first stabilise the existing site so your team can keep publishing, then move the content to a base that is simpler to maintain, without plugins to update constantly. That is how we worked for the Fonds Reine Mathilde, whose WordPress website had become hard to manage. Our comparison Wagtail vs WordPress helps you choose.
We start with an inventory of your existing pages and rankings: useful content is kept or improved, every old URL is redirected and Search Console is transferred, with no downtime. A redesign always involves some variation, but a well-prepared migration limits losses and builds better foundations. The full method is in our article on migrating without losing your rankings.
A Start package is delivered within a few weeks depending on the project; allow from four weeks for a custom build, from first call to launch. You approve at each milestone (design, development, launch) and we handle the rest, migration and redirects included.
Let's talk about your organisation
A 15-minute exploratory call, no strings attached. We will have visited your current site before we talk.
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