We’re an award winning animation specialist video studio with a focus on helping charities achieve their mission.
With over 15 years of experience, we’ve helped countless charities transform complex missions into exciting visual stories that drive donations and awareness through animation.
Whether you need to explain complicated social issues, protect vulnerable identities, or create emotional content, our charity animation services deliver powerful results.
We’ve proudly partnered with leading non profit organisations worldwide to create exceptional animated videos that make a difference.
Animation animation tp encourage people to consider physical as well as mental health.
Blended animation design style look with stock video, images and animation for a charity promoting a new way of funding for the 3rd sector
Using animation to highlight a person’s journey as a metaphor for explaining a new approach.
Highlighting the results of Youth Work Week with an animation – showing the impact of mobile phones on young people
Explainer style animation for organisations to explain procurement in a fun and easy way
Animated video to promote young people’s charity.
Please drop us a line If you have an animated video project in mind for your charity and you’d like a quick quote. Or if just want to have a chat about what’s possible please send us a message and we’ll get right back to you.
The video really looked fantastic and was a really great showcase for the new brand. So thanks again for all your work on that.
I just wanted to take a moment to personally thank you for all your hard work over the past few weeks. Your work has been outstanding, and your partnership has been even more valuable. I truly appreciate everything you’ve done.
And thanks again to you and the rest of the team for all of your hard work! We’ll definitely be putting this to good use going forward in our marketing, just as we’re continuing to do with the video you made us last year!
Claims Recruitment Services
What an amazing piece of work. We are so grateful for all your hard work and for putting up with all my nitpicking!
I’ve been working on this project for 2 years and it’s taken a long time to come up with this simple way of explaining the approach. Nye’s writing plus your talent and hard work has now turned this into something accessible to everyone.
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Benefits of Charity Animation
Animation offers charities advantages that can often be more effective than live action video.
Here are the key benefits when charity animation might be the better choice for your organisation
Bespoke animation helps to transform abstract concepts and statistics into accessible visuals to help anyone understand. For complex topics, this drives better engagement with your cause and empowers people to make informed decisions.
Through thoughtful illustrations, use of colour, light and movement, we create stories that connect on a human level. Animation’s visual adaptability and flexibility in style help viewers connect with potentially difficult subjects that may be otherwise hard to film.
Our bespoke character designs represent real experiences while maintaining complete anonymity for sensitive populations. This ethical approach safeguards everyone while still capturing emotional impact stories.
We can quickly adapt animated content for international audiences by offering localised versions with new voiceover or animated text without costly reshoots. We often create videos in various languages for global use and can also offer foreign language SRT files as a lower-cost option.
Animation offers great control over every visual element of the video, from colours, text, illustrations and layouts – ensuring alignment with your brand guidelines and charity tone of voice. Your animated style will be instantly recognisable as you, even on a quick scroll.
Unlike live-action videos that can quickly date, animation remains timeless and relevant for longer. If someone leaves the organisation, for example, this can cause havoc for your filmed content, whereas animation can be relatively easy to update.
For charities working with sensitive populations— such as abuse survivors, refugees, at-risk children, or those facing stigmatised health conditions—protecting privacy is so important.
Animation creates a safe space for vulnerable voices to be heard without exposure.
A bespoke charity animation provides the perfect solution for sharing powerful personal stories without compromising confidentiality.
Our character designs can represent real experiences while maintaining complete anonymity, allowing you to showcase authentic stories without risking identification.
We can even illustrate videos without including people at all, and find more conceptual ways to show how your charity has made an impact.
This ethical approach prevents anyone being singled out while still capturing the emotional aspect that brings connection with your audience.
At Digital Finch, we’re experts at creating animated videos that delight out customers and it’s not by chance.
Our expertise is in both animation and design. We begin with a thorough consultation and maintain an open dialogue throughout the project, incorporating key approval stages—making the process inherently collaborative.
Our methodology keeps clients in the know at every stage of the project.
And this means they find that when we present the final animation, it perfectly matches their expectations and desires.
Our experienced script writers work with you create the script and concept for the video.
Offering creative ideas and keeping the wording concise and accessible – and a story that is relevant to the target audience.
From the approved concept and script, we develop a detailed written treatment for the video; this is where we describe what we will want to see for each sentence or meaning – a written story of the video. So you can start to envisage the flow of the animation.
We start with a sketch, and design style frames for you to view and approve. This is typicall 1-2 scenes from the animation drawn to a final standard so you can see how it will look and match your branding.
Only after that, we create a bespoke fully illustrated storyboard, so you can see what the whole animation. We find this helps to demystify the process for clients.
You can see the whole video beautifully designed and really get a feel for the story before we ever animate.
This is where the video comes to life, we animate the designs and tie them seamlessly together to create your story.
Providing a fully polished chariry , complete with music, professional voiceover (or your supplied voice if you prefer), sound effects and post production. We also offer English subtitles FOC.
Our animation team frequently collaborates with nonprofits to create powerful animated videos tailored to your mission and goals. We never use templates because your cause deserves unique story.
From concept to completion, we provide a comprehensive charity animation service with no hidden costs. Our rigourous methodlody means videos very rarely go over bugdet and actively include you in each development stage to ensure perfect alignment with your vision.
Whether you need a concise 2D explainer highlighting your impact, like a social report, or an emotional narrative brought to life with animated characters to get support, we adapt our approach to suit your goals.
For complex social issues that require innovative communication, we’ll develop visually engaging animations that simplify concepts while maintaining emotional impact.
Our designers and illustrators work across multiple contemporary animation styles. We can seamlessly align with your charity’s established visual identity or help develop a distinctive new look that connects with donors and partners.
We find the most effective animation approach is determined by taking the time to speak with you and learn from you, understanding your message, fundraising goals, target audience, distribution platforms, and values.
If you are aiming for a social first approach, we will create the animation in a vertical format for maximum engagement for example.
We partner with you to create charity animations that inspire action, drive donations, and amplify your impact story.
About us Charity animation with a blended style of illustration and photos.
Friendly animation to explain a new service
Filmed Charity Video
In case you would like a filmed charity video production, such as a testimonial or case study video, we offer this professional service. We can also combine footage and animation together seamlessly for a blended look. Click to learn more about our filmed charity video services.
We’ve been trusted to create charity animations many charities and non profit organisations; The Power of Nutrition, Homeless Link, South East London Mind, Coram Beanstalk, Urbact and many more.
Whatever kind of animated video production you need, we’d love to help you.
Get in touch for a quick discovery call or a free custom quote
Please drop us a line If you have a project in mind and you’d like a quick quote. Or if just want to have a chat about what’s possible please send us a message and we’ll get right back to you.