Affordable Hiring Software for Mission-Driven Organizations
Nonprofits and charities deserve the same quality hiring infrastructure as commercial organisations - without enterprise price tags that drain programme budgets. Treegarden gives your team structured hiring pipelines, GDPR compliance, and a platform that fits both staff and volunteer recruitment.
Why Nonprofit Hiring Deserves Better Tools
Nonprofits often manage hiring with limited HR resource, constrained budgets, and the added complexity of trustee governance, safeguarding requirements, and diverse workforce types.
Enterprise ATS Tools Are Simply Too Expensive
A per-seat ATS at $80 per user per month is a significant budget line for a charity with a two-person HR team. That money comes directly from programme delivery. Most nonprofits resort to spreadsheets and shared inboxes not because they prefer it, but because the tools designed for them are priced out of reach.
Managing Staff and Volunteers in Separate Systems
Most charities recruit both paid staff and volunteers, often using completely different processes and tools. When the same candidate applies for both a paid role and a volunteer position, or when a volunteer is later hired as staff, the data lives in two places and the HR team manually bridges the gap.
GDPR Compliance Without a Dedicated DPO
Charities handle sensitive personal data - from DBS checks to references covering personal history - in hiring workflows. GDPR requires explicit consent, defined retention periods, and documented deletion procedures. Without automated tooling, a small HR team cannot realistically maintain compliance manually across every hiring cycle.
Enterprise-Quality ATS at a Price That Respects Your Mission
Treegarden delivers the hiring infrastructure your charity needs without the pricing that forces you to choose between tools and programmes.
Transparent Flat Pricing - No Surprises
Treegarden's pricing is published on our website and structured around flat plans rather than per-seat escalators. Whether you have one person managing hiring or a team of five sharing access, you see the full cost before you sign anything. No quote required, no sales negotiation, no annual price increase surprises.
One Platform for Staff and Volunteer Hiring
Configure separate pipelines for paid staff roles and volunteer positions, each with appropriate screening stages, evaluation criteria, and communication templates. When a volunteer is later offered a paid role, their record is already in the system with complete history. No duplication, no manual data transfer.
GDPR Compliance Without a Dedicated DPO
Treegarden handles consent capture at application, enforces configurable data retention schedules for candidates who were not hired, and automates deletion at the end of retention periods. Candidates can request erasure and the platform processes it with a complete audit trail. Your charity stays compliant without manual data governance processes.
Charities and Nonprofits Choosing Treegarden
"As a charity with a small HR team and a tight budget, we could not justify the cost of enterprise ATS platforms. We were managing everything in spreadsheets, which meant we lost track of applications, missed follow-ups, and had no audit trail for our trustees. Treegarden gave us the structure we needed at a price we could justify to our board, and the GDPR automation alone saves our team hours every month."Operations Manager, Community Development Charity, Netherlands
Questions from Nonprofit HR Teams
Does Treegarden offer nonprofit or charity discounts?
Treegarden's pricing is structured as flat plans rather than per-seat charges, which naturally makes it more affordable for smaller teams including nonprofits. Contact us to discuss your organisation's specific situation and we will find an approach that works within your budget constraints.
Can we manage volunteer recruitment alongside paid staff hiring?
Yes. You can configure separate hiring pipelines with different stages, evaluation criteria, and communication templates for volunteer and paid staff roles. Both types of candidates live in the same database, making it straightforward to track someone across both volunteer and employment contexts.
How does Treegarden handle trustee or board approval for senior appointments?
Treegarden's approval workflow allows you to add approval steps to a hiring pipeline that require sign-off from specified individuals - including trustees or board members - before a candidate can progress. Approvers receive notifications and can review and approve from within the platform without needing full system access.
Is Treegarden suitable for charities subject to UK or EU GDPR?
Yes. Treegarden is designed with GDPR compliance as a core feature, not an add-on. Data is hosted in EU infrastructure, consent is captured and logged at application, retention periods are configurable per role type, and deletion workflows are automated. This applies equally to UK GDPR post-Brexit.
Can DBS check status and safeguarding documents be tracked in candidate profiles?
Yes. You can add custom fields to candidate profiles for safeguarding-related information, track document upload status, and flag candidates where required checks are outstanding. This is particularly useful for roles involving work with children or vulnerable adults where safeguarding compliance is mandatory before appointment.
Give Your Mission the Hiring Infrastructure It Deserves
Book a free demo and see how Treegarden helps nonprofits and charities hire staff and volunteers with the structure, compliance, and affordability their budgets require.