Free website hosting for UK students
Gwiddle has been relaunched by the Keeping Digital Foundation, a UK-based charitable organisation aiming to improve access to digital technology and also support young people in Computer Science education.
To allow more students to get involved and try coding, we’re providing free website hosting so students can test code and build exciting projects, with the aim to inspire the next generation.
Part of the Keeping Digital Foundation
The Keeping Digital Foundation are making Gwiddle home once again to hundreds of students who are taking their first steps in web development. Formed in 2016, the Keeping Digital Foundation have been working with the local community to create exciting projects and improve services across the region. Gwiddle is a brand new service by the Keeping Digital Foundation that offers free website hosting for students from UK-registered educational institutions, from secondary schools to colleges and universities.
What is Gwiddle?
Gwiddle is a brand new service by the Keeping Digital Foundation that offers free website hosting for students from UK-registered educational institutions, from secondary schools to colleges and universities.
Students are given a CPanel account for 6 months, and this can be renewed through their official education email.
About Us
Gwiddle Clubs
Support
Register
The Gwiddle website is supported and funded by the team at it’seeze websites Hull & Leeds
Our News
Gwiddle to relaunch providing free website hosting for UK students
North Yorkshire's leading digital inclusion charitable organisation is delighted to announce it's first national project by relaunching Gwiddle, providing free hosting for students.
How to continue digital making while at home - our tips
When you are not at one of our digital making activities, you may be wanting to create your own projects at home. The team at the Keeping Digital Foundation have produced this handy guide to help you continue making at home!
Closure of Horde webmail on Gwiddle Host
The Horde webmail application relies on PHP 7.4, which reached End-of-Life on November 28, 2022. Due to a PHP update on our servers, we have removed the Horde webmail interface from Gwiddle Host.
An update on the Gwiddle trademark
Keeping Digital CIC (Keeping Digital Foundation) can confirm it has started the process of registering for a trademark regarding our Gwiddle brand. We relaunched the Gwiddle service in 2023 to provide free website hosting to UK students, aiming to inspire the next generation and support students in building and developing their projects.
Keeping Digital CIC will always work to protect our service users from being mislead or scammed, and protecting our Gwiddle brand is a priority for the organisation. Registering this trademark will help us to ensure the Gwiddle brand is only used for our charitable servics, and not used by those wishing to mislead our service users.
Keeping Digital CIC's priority is to protect the people who benefit from our services, and we'll take whatever action we can to protect our brand.
As part of the trademark process, individuals and businesses who wish to add a third party observation or object to our application can currently do so via the Intellectual Property Office.
We want your feedback about your experience when visiting our website today! (plus you'll get the chance to win a £5 Amazon Gift Card)
Our team continue to work hard to improve our website and your experience when using it, whether that be for creating a Gwiddle account or finding out how you can get involved via the Keeping Digital Foundation.
So we can continue to make our website even better, we are inviting you to provide feedback about your experience when visiting it today.