LT Charity is a theme for local charities and non-profits built with Elementor (free): an appeal hero with a gift ladder that shows what each amount pays for, programme rows, a running-low list for donated goods, how to get help in three steps, volunteer shifts, where every $100 goes, donate and volunteer pages, news and a volunteer and help form. A Hello Elementor child theme with bundled fonts, one-page mode and a mobile menu.
Editions
| Edition | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | The child theme with its design, fonts, header and footer, the About us and Contact pages, blog and 404 templates, one-page mode and the mobile menu. Credit link stays. |
| Pro Standard | $29 a year | Every page, sample posts and one-click demo import, credit removal. Downloads, updates and ticket support for 1 year, 1 website. |
| Pro Unlimited | $49 once | Everything in Pro Standard plus the AI kit. Unlimited websites, lifetime updates and ticket support. |
Pages in Free (Appearance → Starter setup): About us, Contact, News. Pages in Pro (Appearance → Demo import): Home, About us, Our story, Trustees and staff, Where the money goes, Our work, Food pantry, Get a food parcel, Give food, Pantry shifts, Warm space, Homework club, Get involved, Donate, Volunteer, Fundraise for us, Contact, News.
Quick setup
- Install the free Elementor plugin and the Hello Elementor theme, then upload and activate LT Charity (Install and update).
- Optional: activate WPForms Lite for the volunteer, give or ask for help form.
- Pro: Appearance → Demo import → Import (Demo import). Free: Appearance → Starter setup.
- Replace the demo content and pictures (below), set your logo and the header button.
Pages in the demo
| Page | Under | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Home | – | Pro |
| About us | – | Free |
| Our story | About us | Pro |
| Trustees and staff | About us | Pro |
| Where the money goes | About us | Pro |
| Our work | – | Pro |
| Food pantry | Our work | Pro |
| Get a food parcel | Food pantry | Pro |
| Give food | Food pantry | Pro |
| Pantry shifts | Food pantry | Pro |
| Warm space | Our work | Pro |
| Homework club | Our work | Pro |
| Get involved | – | Pro |
| Donate | Get involved | Pro |
| Volunteer | Get involved | Pro |
| Fundraise for us | Get involved | Pro |
| Contact | – | Free |
| News (blog) | – | Free |
Home page sections
The home page sections, in order, with the name they have in Elementor’s Navigator and their CSS ID (the anchor used by one-page mode and by links such as /#appeal).
| Section (Navigator name) | CSS ID |
|---|---|
| Winter appeal | #appeal |
| Our work | #work |
| Running low | #lowstock |
| Get help | #help |
| Volunteer | #volunteer |
| Where the money goes | #money |
| A volunteer's story | #story |
| Other ways to give | #ways |
| News | #news |
| Find us | #visit |
- An appeal with a gift ladder: The home page opens with your appeal and a ladder of gifts, each rung an amount and the one thing it pays for, smallest at the bottom.
- Programmes with their own rung: Each service gets a row and a page with times, place, who it is for and one rung of the ladder that shows what a gift does there.
- Get help, simply: A three-step guide to getting help, opening times and a running-low list that tells donors what to bring this week.
- Donate and volunteer pages: One-off and monthly ladders, ways to give, volunteer shifts, fundraising ideas and partner information for companies and schools.
- Where every $100 goes: A plain breakdown of spending and income, ready for your own figures from the annual accounts.
- Free Elementor and a ready form: Every page uses free Elementor widgets on Hello Elementor, with a 'Volunteer, give or ask for help' form made with the free WPForms Lite plugin. Fonts are bundled: no Google Fonts requests.
Menu
The demo import creates this main menu (Appearance → Menus):
- Home
- About us → Our story, Trustees and staff, Where the money goes
- Our work → Food pantry (Get a food parcel, Give food, Pantry shifts), Warm space, Homework club
- Get involved → Donate, Volunteer, Fundraise for us
- News
- Contact
Header button: Donate (link #appeal), changed in Appearance → Customize → LT Charity options.
One-page mode (Pro)
With Pro Standard or Pro Unlimited, tick One-page mode on the home page in Appearance → Customize → LT Charity options and the menu scrolls to these sections: Winter appeal, Our work, Running low, Get help, Volunteer, Where the money goes, A volunteer's story, Other ways to give, News, Find us. To change the labels or leave sections out, see One-page mode.
Used the old LT Charity onepage WordPress theme? It is not sold any more: version 2.0 is one theme for both. Install its Pro edition and turn on one-page mode.
Colours and fonts
Change them in Elementor Site Settings → Global Colors and Global Fonts; the whole site follows.
| Name in Global Colors | Value |
|---|---|
| Damson (buttons, links, appeal band) | #4A1E4E |
| Slate plum (soft text) | #5A5061 |
| Ink (text) | #1F1622 |
| Tabard marigold (ladder rungs, on damson only) | #F2B230 |
| Hall white (page) | #F3F3F6 |
| Lilac hall (tinted sections) | #E7E2EB |
| Hairlines | #CEC5D3 |
| Deep damson (dark bands, footer) | #3B1740 |
| Text on dark | #F3F3F6 |
| Soft text on dark | #D3C4D6 |
| Button hover | #30113A |
| Name in Global Fonts | Font |
|---|---|
| Display (headings, ladder amounts) | Hepta Slab |
| Interface (menu, labels) | Kumbh Sans |
| Body text | Kumbh Sans |
| Buttons | Kumbh Sans |
Form
With WPForms Lite active, the demo import creates the form Volunteer, give or ask for help on the Contact page. Fields: Your name (required), Email (required), Phone (optional), What is it about? (required), When are you free? (volunteers), How should we reply?, Your message (required), Privacy (required). Email subject: “Message from the website”. After sending, visitors see: “Thank you. Someone from the pantry team will reply by email, usually within two working days.”
See Contact form for where messages go and how to change the fields.
Demo content to replace
Everything marked with one of these in the demo is sample content: names, numbers, prices and addresses that you replace with your own (or delete):
(sample)Example pricesexample.com(555)Hillside Community PantrySpringfieldOrchard Road
- Keep the gift ladder honest: every rung is a real cost from the charity's books, largest amount at the top, and no more than six rungs.
- Keep tabard marigold for the ladder rungs and marks on damson bands; never use it for text on light backgrounds.
- Do not add impact counters or progress bars that are not backed by the accounts.
Only publish facts that are true for your business: real prices, opening hours, reviews and qualifications. Pro Unlimited’s launch checker lists every sample marker left on the site.
Photo guide
The demo uses placeholder pictures. Replace each one in Elementor (click it → Choose image) with a photo of about this size; save photos as JPEG or WebP under about 300 KB.
| Picture | Upload size |
|---|---|
| Two volunteers in gloves and masks sorting donated food into crates | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Volunteers sorting donated clothes and food in a bright warehouse | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Two volunteers folding and sorting donations at a long table | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Tins and dry food stacked on a table, ready to pack into parcels | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Older neighbours talking over coffee in a warm, light room | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Two older people sharing a cup of tea at home | 1600 × 1200 px |
| An adult's hand guiding a pupil's pencil in an exercise book | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Runners on a forest path during a fun run, seen from behind | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Gloved hands packing tins into a cardboard donations box | 1600 × 1000 px |
| Volunteers behind a table with a handwritten donation sign | 1600 × 1000 px |
| A table of bread and tins under a handwritten free food sign | 1600 × 1000 px |
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
The AI kit’s AGENTS.md tells an assistant how LT Charity is built. The CSS classes it relies on (keep them when you edit):
| CSS class | What it is |
|---|---|
lt-hero | home appeal band (headline, lead, buttons, the gift ladder) |
lt-ladder | the gift ladder: two rails with lt-ladder__rails holding one lt-rung per amount, largest first (top), smallest last (bottom) |
lt-rung | one rung: amount (lt-rung__amount, Heading widget) and what it pays for (lt-rung__text) |
lt-ladder__caption | line under a ladder saying where the costs come from |
lt-rungtag | one rung lifted from the ladder, shown on a programme (amount + what it pays for) |
lt-programme | one programme row on the home page (name, text, when and where, rung tag) |
lt-stock | running-low list rows; status chip lt-chip lt-chip–low or lt-chip–ok |
lt-steps | a real sequence of steps (getting a food parcel); each lt-step with lt-step__n |
lt-share | where-the-money-goes row (what it pays for + amount of every $100) |
lt-shift | volunteer shift row (role, when, note) |
lt-quote | a sample volunteer's words |
lt-way | one 'other way to give' block |
lt-pagehead | inner page heading band |
lt-desk | contact desk block |
lt-price | label + value row (hours, facts) |
lt-timeline | history rows (year + event) |
See AI kit for the prompts, the safe edit tool and the launch checker.
Questions about LT Charity
Do I need Elementor Pro?
No. LT Charity uses only the free Elementor plugin and the free Hello Elementor theme. The header and footer are part of the theme, so you do not need Theme Builder.
Can it take online donations?
The theme does not process payments. Link the Donate buttons to the donation page of your payment provider or fundraising platform, or use the ways-to-give rows for bank transfer and standing orders.
Can I change the amounts on the gift ladder?
Yes. Each rung is a normal Elementor row with an amount and a sentence; edit them in the editor, or ask an AI assistant to do it with the AI kit's safe edit tool.
Will my site look like the demo?
Yes, with Pro: Appearance > Demo import creates every page, the colours, fonts, menu, header and footer. The demo photos are replaced by placeholders you swap for your own.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free has the design, header and footer, the About us and Contact pages and the blog. Pro adds the home page, Our work, Get involved and their sub-pages, sample posts, one-click demo import, credit removal, updates and support. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit.
I have the old LT Charity. Is this an update?
It is a new version 2.0 with a new design, built for free Elementor. Your current site keeps working; install 2.0 on a new site or a staging copy and import the demo there.
Also for Joomla
LT Charity also exists as a Joomla template: see the LT Charity Joomla docs.
Ask AI about LT Charity
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from these docs and links the sections it used.
AI answers can be wrong; check the linked section. Never share passwords or licence keys. Open a ticket