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Community impact

Digital growth that gives something back

Pattni Digital works with businesses of all backgrounds and publishes one service price for every customer. The Community Fund is an internal, company-funded programme operated by PATTNI DIGITAL LTD. This page explains which projects qualify, how the 5% is calculated and recorded, who may be considered for support and how decisions are governed. Nothing has been recorded, allocated or distributed yet.

Pattni Digital records 5% of qualifying professional fees actually received to its Community Fund, supporting approved Pattni community initiatives.

Where we are today

Everything starts at zero

We would rather publish honest zeros than aspirational numbers. These figures update only when qualifying work has actually been delivered.

0

Businesses supported

We are just getting started.

£0

Community Fund allocated

Allocations begin with our first qualifying project.

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Community projects supported

Reported openly as soon as work begins.

Current status

Nothing has been recorded or allocated

Pattni Digital has not yet received cleared payment on a qualifying project, so there is nothing to record.

  • Pattni Digital works with businesses of all backgrounds and publishes one service price for every customer.
  • No qualifying Community Fund amounts have been recorded.
  • No allocation has been approved.
  • Nothing has been distributed.
  • No recipient or supported initiative has been selected.
  • PATTNI DIGITAL LTD formally adopted the Community Fund governance and accounting framework on 1 August 2026.
  • Applicants have no automatic entitlement to support. Buying Pattni Digital services does not create an entitlement to Community Fund support.

An approved policy is not activity

The operating policy was approved on 28 July 2026. Professional legal and accounting review was confirmed on 1 August 2026. That is a separate matter from Community Fund activity, of which there is none. Every figure stays at zero until a qualifying payment has actually cleared.

Legal status

An internal company programme

The Pattni Digital Community Fund is an internal, company-funded community-support programme operated by PATTNI DIGITAL LTD.

Pattni Digital is the trading brand of PATTNI DIGITAL LTD.

What the Community Fund is not

The Community Fund is not any of the following:

  • A charity or registered charity
  • A charitable trust
  • A separate legal entity
  • A public fundraising appeal
  • A customer donation scheme

No public donations

Public donations are not accepted. Customer payments for Pattni Digital services are not donations and do not attract charitable tax relief.

Qualifying projects

How a project qualifies

Not every payment made to Pattni Digital qualifies. A project contributes only when it meets the conditions above, or when it has been explicitly designated as qualifying and that decision has been recorded. Service pricing is the same for all customers; the 5% commitment applies to qualifying receipts from 31 July 2026 onwards. Community Fund allocations remain focused on approved Pattni community initiatives.

A project qualifies when all of these apply

  • The work is a paid website, online store, web application, mobile application or another agreed digital-development project.
  • PATTNI DIGITAL LTD has received cleared payment for its professional development services on or after 31 July 2026.
  • The receipt is treated as a qualifying professional fee under the published Community Fund calculation rules.

These do not automatically qualify

  • Unpaid work
  • Consultations
  • Third-party purchases

Designated projects

A project that does not automatically qualify may contribute only when Pattni Digital explicitly designates it as qualifying and records that decision.

One price for every customer

From 3 August 2026 Pattni Digital publishes one service price for every customer. Preferential community service pricing has been discontinued. The Community Fund 5% commitment and qualifying-receipts calculation remain unchanged.

Calculation

How the five per cent is calculated

The Community Fund amount is 5% of qualifying Pattni Digital professional fees actually received — cash actually received for qualifying professional services.

Deducted from the base

These are deducted from the professional-fee base:

  • VAT included in those receipts, once the company becomes VAT registered
  • Separately charged third-party pass-through costs (for example domains, hosting, software, licences, subscriptions and other costs paid on the client’s behalf)
  • Refunds
  • Credit notes
  • Chargebacks

Not deducted from the base

These are not deducted from the professional-fee base:

  • Card or bank-processing charges
  • Subcontractor costs
  • Salaries
  • General overheads
  • Marketing expenses
  • Other ordinary costs of delivering the service

Failed, unpaid or written-off invoices do not count because no money was actually received. Free work and the discounted portion of reduced-price work do not generate an additional recorded amount.

Illustrative calculation

The figures below show how the calculation works on a straightforward project with one separately itemised third-party cost.

Professional development fee received
£1,000
Less separately itemised hosting cost
£100
Qualifying professional fee
£900
Community Fund amount at 5%
£45

Illustrative only. This is an illustrative example, not a record of a real Pattni Digital payment or Community Fund amount. The £45 shown here is not held anywhere and forms no part of the published report below.

Recording

When an amount is recorded

An amount becomes real at the point money has actually cleared, and the record is adjusted if that money later goes back.

  1. A qualifying payment clears

    The Community Fund amount is calculated at the point cleared payment for qualifying professional fees is received, not when the work is quoted, agreed or invoiced.

  2. The amount is recorded

    The calculated amount is recorded in the Community Fund ledger as a designated internal balance. Recording does not create a payable to any recipient.

  3. Refunds and chargebacks are adjusted

    If all or part of a qualifying payment is later refunded, credited or charged back, the ledger is adjusted. A partial reversal reduces the qualifying fee and the associated Community Fund amount proportionately.

What never creates a Community Fund amount

These never create a Community Fund amount:

  • Quoted amounts
  • Anticipated income
  • Unpaid invoices
  • Failed payments
  • Written-off invoices
An unpaid invoice creates no Community Fund obligation. Nothing is recorded until the payment behind it has cleared.

The balance

How the balance is recorded

Community Fund amounts are recorded as a designated balance within PATTNI DIGITAL LTD’s financial records. Recorded amounts remain assets of the company until an allocation is irrevocably approved under its governance process.

Ownership and entitlement

Ownership and entitlement:

  • Recorded amounts remain assets of PATTNI DIGITAL LTD.
  • They are not held in a separate trust.
  • Recording an amount does not create ownership or an automatic entitlement for a customer, applicant, potential recipient or other third party.
  • A liability to a recipient arises only when a specific allocation becomes irrevocably approved.
  • Applicants have no entitlement merely because they apply or meet minimum eligibility criteria.

No balance exists yet

No qualifying amount has been recorded, so no designated balance exists yet.

What the Community Fund is not

The Community Fund is not any of the following, and nothing on this page should be read as saying otherwise:

  • A separate bank account
  • A trust or charitable trust
  • An independent legal entity
  • A registered fund
  • A charity or registered charity
  • A public fundraising appeal
  • A customer donation scheme
A separate bank account is not required at the current scale. Any account used must be in the name of PATTNI DIGITAL LTD. Personal accounts must never be used.

Governance

Company authority and decision records

The Community Fund is operated by PATTNI DIGITAL LTD. Day-to-day administration may be carried out by company decision-makers, but it is not a personal fund: every allocation decision is written down, and the record is what the public reporting is built from.

Every allocation is written down

Every allocation must have a written record covering:

  • Recipient
  • Purpose
  • Amount or value
  • Eligibility assessment
  • Due diligence
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Reason for selection and expected benefit
  • Conditions
  • Solvency confirmation

Formal company adoption

PATTNI DIGITAL LTD formally adopted the Community Fund governance and accounting framework on 1 August 2026.

The governance and accounting framework is operationally adopted. No Community Fund amount has been recorded, allocated or distributed yet, and no recipient or award has been approved.

Any future allocation remains subject to eligibility assessment, due diligence, conflict controls, a written decision record, a recipient agreement and the solvency safeguard.

No allocation or distribution may be approved where the directors reasonably consider that it would prejudice the company’s ability to meet its debts and other obligations as they fall due.

Conflicts of interest

Conflicts follow an identify, declare, withdraw, independently decide and record process. A conflicted decision-maker must take no part in discussion, voting or influence, and the conflict must be recorded. Direct cash awards to directors, shareholders or their close family members are normally prohibited.

Use of the Fund

Who may be considered, and what support can do

Support must primarily benefit the Pattni community, Pattni-led community activity, or people, businesses or organisations addressing a demonstrable Pattni-community need. Eligibility focuses on community benefit rather than solely on ancestry.

Potential eligible applicants

  • Pattni individuals
  • Pattni-owned or Pattni-led businesses
  • Community groups serving Pattni people
  • Charities, CICs or organisations delivering an eligible Pattni-community initiative
  • Non-Pattni applicants whose initiative primarily benefits the Pattni community

Assessment criteria include

  • Demonstrated community benefit
  • Demonstrated need
  • Likely number of beneficiaries
  • Feasibility and value for money
  • Applicant capability and sustainability
  • Risks and conflicts of interest
  • Evidence and measurable outcomes

The Community Fund may support

  • Pattni community business and entrepreneurship initiatives
  • Digital skills, training and education
  • Youth development
  • Community organisations and events
  • Digital tools or services providing a clear Pattni community benefit
  • Other documented initiatives that demonstrably benefit the Pattni community

The Community Fund must not be used for

  • Pattni Digital’s ordinary operating expenses
  • Personal benefit outside an approved community-support purpose
  • Undocumented payments
  • Activity without a clear Pattni community benefit
  • Public donations collected by Pattni Digital

No automatic entitlement

Meeting basic eligibility requirements does not guarantee support. Allocations are subject to eligibility assessment, due diligence, conflict controls, company approval and the solvency safeguard. There is no automatic entitlement for any applicant.

Reporting

How the Community Fund is reported

A Community Fund report is published quarterly, and again after every allocation.

Recorded, allocated and distributed

These three words describe three different events, and each report keeps them apart.

Recorded
Added to the designated Community Fund balance in the company’s internal records after a qualifying payment cleared.
Allocated
Approved for a named recipient or initiative, subject to any stated conditions.
Distributed
Actually paid or provided.

What every report contains

Every report carries the same fields:

Reporting period
The period the report covers.
Opening balance
The designated Community Fund balance at the start of the period.
New qualifying amounts recorded
Amounts added to the designated balance during the period, from qualifying payments that cleared.
Amounts allocated
Amounts approved for a named recipient or initiative during the period.
Amounts distributed
Amounts actually paid or provided during the period.
Recipient or supported purpose
Who or what each distributed amount supported.
Allocation date
The date each allocation decision was approved.
Closing balance
The designated balance at the end of the period.
Notes and decision rationale
Why each decision was made, and anything else needed to read the figures fairly.

The record

The current Community Fund report

No qualifying Community Fund amounts have yet been recorded or allocated.

Community Fund report

Initial status report — no activity

This is the first Community Fund report. It records that the policy is in force and that no Community Fund activity has taken place, so every figure below is zero.

Reporting period
Initial status — 28 July 2026
Opening balance
£0
New qualifying amounts recorded
£0
Amounts allocated
£0
Amounts distributed
£0
Closing balance
£0
Supported recipient or purpose
None
Allocation date
None
Notes
No qualifying Community Fund amounts have yet been recorded or allocated.

The next report is published either at the end of the first quarter in which a qualifying amount is recorded, or immediately after the first allocation, whichever comes first.

Important

Status and legal positioning

The Community Fund is a voluntary commitment by a commercial company. These statements set the limits of what it is.

  • Pattni Digital works with businesses of all backgrounds and publishes one service price for every customer.
  • Pattni Digital is a commercial business. It is not a charity and it is not a registered charity.
  • The Community Fund is an internal programme of PATTNI DIGITAL LTD. It is not a registered charitable fund, trust or separate legal entity.
  • Pattni Digital does not collect public donations and is not fundraising.
  • Customer payments for Pattni Digital services are commercial payments, not charitable donations, and do not attract charitable tax relief.
  • The 5% comes from qualifying Pattni Digital professional fees actually received, not from client add-ons, public giving or any other source.
  • Recorded amounts remain company assets until an allocation is irrevocably approved. Buying services does not create entitlement to Community Fund support.
  • Community Fund eligibility and allocation remain focused on approved Pattni community initiatives.
  • No Community Fund amount has been recorded unless the public reporting record above says that it has.
  • No allocation has been made unless the public reporting record above confirms it.
  • PATTNI DIGITAL LTD formally adopted the Community Fund governance and accounting framework on 1 August 2026.
  • Professional legal and accounting review of the Community Fund model was confirmed by the owner on 1 August 2026. Reviewer identity and confidential advice are not stored in this repository.

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