StellMare Studios
Helping Gibraltar's Charities & NGOs Do More With Less.
The platforms built for commercial businesses were never designed for how charities work. Volunteers aren't employees. Supporters aren't customers. Grant cycles aren't sales pipelines. Despite that, most charities end up forcing their operations into tools built for someone else entirely, paying for features they'll never use and missing the ones they actually need. StellMare is a response to that. Built on fully European infrastructure, our tools are designed around third sector organisations, so you own your data and your team spends its time on the work rather than fighting software.
Your Organisation
We work alongside you to remove what's slowing you down and build only what will actually make a difference to how your organisation runs.
Practical Charity Support
Before recommending any tool, we look at how your organisation actually operates. We sit with your team and trustees, map out where volunteer hours are being lost, and help you decide what to fix first — introducing technology only where it will make a genuine difference.
- Workflow review & mapping
- Admin burden reduction
- Make vs. buy decisions
- Change management
Website & Digital Presence
Your website should represent your mission, not a template. We build sites your team can update without technical help, designed so you can add features over time without starting from scratch. Your story, your impact, your control.
- Custom design
- Self-service CMS
- Mobile optimised
- Grows with you
Search Engine Optimisation
If people can't find you, everything else is harder. We make sure your site is structured correctly, loads fast, and surfaces for the searches people make when they're looking to volunteer, donate, or find the services you offer. Ongoing reporting shows you what's working.
- Technical foundations
- Content strategy
- Core Web Vitals
- Ongoing analytics
Process Improvement & Automation
Most charity admin accumulated gradually, not by design. We help you find the tasks your people shouldn't still be doing by hand and simplify them. Volunteer onboarding, reminders, routine reporting: where it can be automated, we set that up so your team can focus on the work that actually needs them.
- Volunteer workflow mapping
- Admin reduction
- Automated notifications
- Onboarding automation
Campaign & Project Management
Coordinate campaigns, track grant deliverables, and manage committee work in the same platform your team already uses — not buried in email threads. Kanban boards, milestones, and task assignment built for organisations that run on goodwill and limited headcount.
- Kanban & task boards
- Grant milestones
- Volunteer task assignment
- Delivery consulting
Your Supporters & Volunteers
The tools to keep people connected to your cause, coordinate your volunteers, and give your supporters reasons to stay involved.
GDPR Supporter Management
Donor and supporter data built around compliance from the start. Consent tracked per communication channel, interactions logged, retention periods enforced automatically. You own the data. We make sure you handle it correctly under Gibraltar's legislation and the expectations of your funders.
- Consent management
- Audit trails
- Data retention policies
- Right to erasure
Newsletters & Communications
The most reliable way to keep volunteers, supporters, and funders informed is direct communication. Build campaigns, segment by interest area or role, and reach the people who've already committed to your cause. Delivery through MailerSend, entirely within European infrastructure.
- Branded templates
- Audience segmentation
- Volunteer vs. donor lists
- Open & click reporting
Events & Volunteer Sign-ups
From fundraising evenings to volunteer rotas, manage sign-ups, reminders, and attendance all in one place — no separate platform needed. After the event, everything feeds back into your supporter records. Works for community days, outreach sessions, annual galas, whatever you're running.
- Event & activity sign-ups
- Automated reminders
- Attendance tracking
- Volunteer coordination
Fundraising Appeals
Create and run time-limited fundraising campaigns without raising a support ticket. Set targets, track progress, and segment your appeals by supporter type. See which campaigns generated donations so the next one is built on actual evidence, not gut feeling.
- Campaign landing pages
- Donation tracking
- Supporter targeting
- Appeal analytics
Membership & Regular Giving
Membership tiers, regular giving plans, and renewals: set them up and the platform handles the rest automatically. Members and regular donors manage their own details through a self-service portal. Less admin for your team, less friction for the people who support you.
- Recurring giving
- Membership tiers
- Member portals
- Auto-renewal
Built on European Infrastructure
Every provider we use is European-headquartered. Your data stays on European soil, processed under European law, with no dependency on US cloud platforms. That's not a marketing point — it's a deliberate decision that affects every part of how we built this.
We Know Gibraltar
Running a charity or NGO in Gibraltar means navigating a regulatory environment with its own rules, its own timelines, and its own quirks. We've built our platform around that reality, not around somewhere else's third sector framework.
Charity Registration & Governance
From initial registration and constitution drafting through to ongoing governance, committee administration, annual reporting, and trustee obligations, we provide practical guidance through the whole process. No hand-holding gaps between phases.
We know the Gibraltar regulatory framework for the third sector, the relevant authorities, the filing requirements, and the practical realities of running a charity or NGO on the Rock.
Third Sector Data Compliance
Gibraltar's data protection framework applies to charities and NGOs just as much as commercial businesses. Your funders will expect to see evidence of it. Our compliance tools are built around the jurisdiction's specific requirements, covering donor consent, volunteer records, and safeguarding documentation.
We keep track of legislative changes and flag the ones that affect your organisation before they become your problem.
AML & Due Diligence for Charities
Charities operating internationally, handling donations from abroad, or distributing funds to third parties have specific AML/CTF obligations. We've built tooling for it: KYC procedures, risk scoring, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity reporting, all integrated into the platform rather than bolted on as an afterthought.
Aligned with the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission's requirements and the current EU AML directives, so your compliance records are in order without requiring a dedicated compliance officer to maintain them by hand.
Let's Talk
If you're tired of shoehorning your operations into tools that weren't built for charities, watching volunteer hours disappear into admin that should have been automated, or struggling to keep supporters and fundraising efforts properly organised, we hope you'll get in touch. We'll have an honest conversation about what your organisation actually needs.