Lyra: An NGO and Charity Website Template for Astro

Most people who give to a charity online do it on a phone, often straight after reading a story or a post about it. If the donate page takes a few seconds too long, or asks too many questions, that moment passes.

Lyra is a website theme for NGOs, charities and community organisations, built so that moment doesn’t pass.

Built for giving

The donate form puts monthly giving first and shows what each amount achieves. Then it sends the donor to the checkout you already use, such as Givebutter, Donorbox or Stripe Payment Links, with the amount already filled in. You never handle card details, and on phones a donate bar stays in reach on every page.

Campaigns show their goal, the amount raised, the number of donors and the days left. The countdown stays correct without rebuilding the site.

What’s inside this NGO template

• Three home pages, so you can lead with your mission, a campaign or your stories
• Causes, campaigns, events and stories, each with its own page. Events come with “Add to calendar” files
• Get involved: volunteer and partner forms and a newsletter sign-up
• Transparency: a spending chart, annual reports to download and your registration badges
• English and Spanish built in, with room for more languages, including right-to-left ones
• Site search in every language

Every page is built from 24 blocks in 49 variants. Copy a block from the block library, paste it into a page and change the words.

Fast on any phone

Every page type scores 98–100 for Performance and 100 for Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO on mobile PageSpeed. Lyra loads one font file and almost no JavaScript, and its colours meet WCAG AA in light and dark mode.

Easy to keep up to date

Your details, causes, campaigns, events and stories are plain text files, and the documentation explains every setting step by step. You can host the site for free on Cloudflare, Netlify or Vercel.

Have a look at the live demo, and try the donate form.