Empowering Local Charities & Community Organisations to Grow and Transform with Agile

Why Agile Works for Charities and Community Orgs

At PlaceBased Agile, we use agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban to help mission-led teams and organisations (charities, CICs, public sector and community orgs) move with purpose, not pressure.

We support you to plan less, deliver sooner, and adapt more often, without burning out.

Where traditional project management locks you into rigid plans and distant deadlines, agile gives you a rhythm:

• Smaller steps

• More reflection

• Earlier wins

• Fewer costly missteps

You don’t need jargon, software, or certification to get started.

You just need a rhythm of work that respects your resources, your relationships, and the real-world demands of community delivery. Agile does this.

Agile helps you stay responsive, show impact sooner, and build what people actually need, not just what was planned six months ago.

Community-Focused Agile Solutions

Empowering charities and community organisations with agile ways of working for sustainable income and community engagement through tailored incremental strategies.

Agile for Earned Income

We help you design and test small, mission-aligned income streams — whether that’s a paid workshop, subscription, toolkit, consultancy offer, or local service — using agile sprints that reduce risk and increase learning.

We help you use low-to-no cost and no code tools to integrate agile methods.

Together we’ll build your Minimum Viable Offer (MVO), identify what to test first, and run short feedback loops with real users.

We help you run short fundraising sprints rooted in your community — experimenting with small asks, local partnerships, or event ideas — to learn what builds real trust and support.

We focus on low-friction giving tools like QR code posters and Tap-to-Give NFC tags in collection pots to gather data, test messaging, and make giving part of everyday community spaces. Tools like GiveTap, Give a Little, Goodbox or TAPiTAG (among others) help you build feedback loops into your fundraising — without depending on big CRMs or agency campaigns.

Agile for Community Fundraising

Agile for Corporate Fundraising

We help your charity or community organisation build and iterate its corporate fundraising strategy using a light-touch Scrumban approach — blending structure with flexibility to unlock partnerships, sponsorships, and pro bono support.

You’ll design and test short experiments: new pitch decks, partnership offers, employee fundraising campaigns, or sponsorship tiers. Each test is tracked, refined, and prioritised using a live board — allowing you to learn what resonates with real companies while protecting your time and relationships.

Kanban Workshop for Charities & Community Organisations

Learn Kanban by doing. In this 3-hour, half-day session, your team will:

• Map real tasks on a Kanban board.

• Try out daily standups, backlog refinement, and service reviews.

• Practice setting limits to stop overload and keep work flowing.

Leave with a simple, repeatable system you can use the very next day.

Nonprofit teams are often juggling too much at once — grant deadlines, volunteer management, service delivery, campaigns, and admin all competing for attention. Important work slips through the cracks, and staff feel stretched thin.

Kanban is a simple, visual way to bring order to the chaos. By putting tasks on a shared board, limiting overload, and reviewing progress together, teams get clarity on what matters most and confidence that work is moving forward.

It’s one of the world’s leading Agile methods, but it starts small: no new roles, no restructuring, just a better way to see and manage your work. That’s why it’s such a natural fit for charities and CICs.

Most agile training is priced per person and aimed at senior leaders. This workshop is different. For a single flat rate, your whole team — staff and key volunteers together — can learn a practical Kanban system tailored to charities and CICs.

At £350 online or £500 in-person per team, it costs less than sending one person on most charity-sector courses — and leaves your entire team with a system you can use the very next day.