Practical AI Support for Charities and Social Enterprises

Ready to explore AI but not sure where to start? We help you assess your readiness, identify real opportunities, and build simple tools that actually work. No jargon. No overwhelm. Just practical next steps tailored to your organisation.

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AI Feels Overwhelming. It Doesn't Have to Be.

Every week brings new AI headlines. Your peers are experimenting. Funders are asking about your digital strategy. Meanwhile, you're wondering: What does this actually mean for us?

You know AI could help with the mundane tasks that eat up your time. Writing funding bids. Analysing feedback. Creating reports. But where do you start? What tools can you trust? How do you experiment safely?

That's where we come in.

Built From the Sector, For the Sector

SocietalQ brings together charity professionals, AI practitioners, and social innovators who understand your reality. We're creating practical pathways for organisations like yours to explore AI confidently.

We started with a simple belief: charities deserve the same access to AI capabilities as any business - but delivered in a way that respects your values, constraints, and communities.

Working with partners across the third sector, we're building the resources, tools, and support networks that make AI adoption achievable for every charity and social enterprise.

From Assessment to Action: Your AI Journey

  • AI Readiness

    Understand exactly where you are and what makes sense for your organisation. Our assessment tool gives you a personalised profile and practical recommendations based on your specific context and capacity.

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    Use Case Discovery

    Stop guessing what AI could do. Through structured workshops, we help you identify the specific tasks where AI would make the biggest difference - from grant writing to impact reporting.

  • Guided Experimentation

    Your team learns by doing, not by sitting through training. We support hands-on experiments with real AI tools on real tasks, building confidence through practical application with expert guidance.

  • Automation & Prototypes

    Turn successful experiments into working tools. We help you build simple automations and lightweight applications - from feedback analysers to grant application screeners - using no-code platforms your team can maintain.

  • Expert Network Access

    Connect with pro bono expertise from leading tech companies and next-generation AI builders worldwide. We broker relationships that bring world-class support to mission-driven organisations.

Start With A Free Assessment.

Take our 15-minute AI Readiness Assessment to understand exactly where you are and what makes sense for your organisation.

Developed with third sector leaders, tested with diverse range of organisations, and designed specifically for charity and social enterprise employees.

What you'll get:

  • Your personalised readiness profile

  • Practical recommendations for your context

  • Clear next steps matched to your capacity

Take Free Assessment

Need deeper insights? We offer comprehensive organisational assessments that analyse your whole team's readiness and create actionable plans. Contact us for details.

Why Charities Partner With SocietalQ.

  • No assumptions about technical knowledge. No pressure to transform overnight. We meet you exactly where you are and help you take the next sensible step.

  • Everything we do focuses on real tasks you're already doing. We're not here to talk about AI strategy - we're here to help you save nine hours on your next funding bid.

  • You're not experimenting alone. Our community approach means you learn from other charities' experiences while our expertise keeps you on safe ground with data, privacy, and ethics.

  • This isn't tech consultancy dressed up for charities. We understand restricted funding, trustee governance, beneficiary safeguarding, and the reality of delivering impact with limited resources.

Free Resources to Get You Started

Start exploring with our practical series written specifically for charity and social enterprise leaders. Learn which tools to try, what tasks to tackle first, and how to bring your team along.

Recent guides:

  • Getting Your Team on Board with AI

  • Everyday Tasks You Can Start Automating

  • Choosing the Right Tools and Tasks

  • Building With AI

  • The Ethical AI Checklist for Charities

Read Our Guides

Intelligence for

Social Change

Building Something Different.

SocietalQ is a network of charity leaders, AI practitioners, data scientists, and impact specialists building a support system for practical AI adoption in the third sector.

That means:

  • Assessment tools that show next steps

  • Hands-on support for first experiments

  • Access to expert volunteers

  • Simple builds that actually save time

We're starting small and growing carefully. Working with partners like CEIS to test our approach. Learning what works. Building trust through results, not rhetoric.

Join Us

If you're curious about AI but tired of the hype, we're building this for you.

If you want practical help, not strategic frameworks, we're here.

If you believe charities deserve the same capabilities as businesses - delivered in a way that makes sense for your reality - join our waiting list.

We're not trying to revolutionise the sector. We're just trying to help you get your Wednesday afternoon back.