Paul Bădărău

Digital services your charity can’t afford to get wrong.

Eight years on fostering, parenting support, schools and cancer support services taught me what charity work demands: people who may be at their lowest, sensitive information, small teams, and funders who want proof. I help you build for all of it.

  • 8 years on UK charity services
  • Consulting and contract work, or a longer engagement with your team
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What I bring

  • Direction before spend.

    Before money goes on a build, we agree the real problem, who it is for, and what success looks like for them and for your funders.

  • Safeguarding built in.

    Who sees what, and what must never happen, enforced by the software rather than by someone remembering.

  • A service your team can run.

    Whatever I lead has to be something your own people can run and improve once I step back.

Charity services I have worked on

  1. A fostering profile platform for a UK children’s charity

    A UK children’s charity’s fostering service

    Foster carers use this platform to introduce their home and family to a child before the child moves in. I was main developer and led its technical development as it grew from one charity’s fostering teams to other fostering services in England and Wales, in English and Welsh.

  2. A parenting support chat platform built on Twilio Flex

    A major UK children’s charity

    Parents of children up to 19 can message a qualified coach for free, by webchat or WhatsApp. I was one of the developers who built and maintained the Twilio Flex platform behind it. In 2025/26, 3,984 parents had one-to-one coaching, and 99% of those who rated it called it good or amazing.

  3. A computing education platform for UK schools

    A computing education charity

    A computing charity runs free courses where young people design and build apps for problems they care about. I was main developer on its platform, then led the build of the new one: courses that any teacher can deliver well, and industry volunteers matched to classes. The programme reached 30,444 young people in 708 schools in 2024/25.

  4. A breast cancer support app for life after treatment

    A UK breast cancer charity

    A UK breast cancer charity’s app gave people living with and beyond primary breast cancer more than 300 short cards of trusted advice, shaped by women who had been through treatment. I worked on every part of it, from the app to the backend and content system, and kept it running until the charity closed it.

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