KidsTix — A Ticket-Donation Platform for a Children's Charity

KidsTix Foundation exists to get children and young people to events they would otherwise never attend — a game, a concert, a show. The platform we built supports both halves of that: people and organisations donating tickets in, and the charity managing what comes in.

The donation flow is the heart of it. A ticket donation is not a payment, so it needed its own path: a dedicated intake form capturing what the tickets are for and how many, an API to receive them, and an admin view where the team can actually work the submissions rather than reading a mailbox. Alongside it sits conventional fundraising, so the site handles both a ticket donation and a cash donation without conflating them.

Around that: an about section telling the charity's story, partner information for organisations wanting to contribute inventory, a contact route, an FAQ, and newsletter signup — the pieces a small non-profit needs to look credible to a corporate partner deciding whether to hand over seats.

The admin side is a real system rather than a hidden page. It has username and password authentication with session cookies and a front-end toolbar, so the charity's own staff can manage content and review donations without a developer.

How it was actually built

This was a close-feedback engagement rather than a spec handed over once. The build went through several rounds of revisions driven directly by the founder — a hero redesign, a homepage rebuild, content cleanup, imagery changes and removing sections that were not earning their place. Cutting a blog that was not going to be maintained is as much a part of the job as adding features.

We also kept it patched after launch, including upgrading Next.js to close an image-optimisation vulnerability and clearing dependency advisories. A charity site is exactly the kind of project that gets built and then abandoned to bit-rot; this one did not.

Built on Next.js and React. Live at kidstix.org.