8 Best LMS for UK Charities in 2026 (Free, Discounted & Paid)

Prices checked 13 October 2026, ex VAT. TalentLMS and Google prices are published in USD and GBP respectively as shown; MoodleCloud shows GBP but bills in AUD. "Quote on request" means the vendor publishes no price.

What it is: Moodle is the open-source learning platform used by universities and the Charity Learning Consortium alike. You can download it and host it yourself for nothing, pay a Moodle Certified Partner to run it, or use MoodleCloud, Moodle's own hosted edition with the most popular features pre-configured.

Price: The software is free. MoodleCloud costs £130 a year for 50 users (Starter), £200 for 100, £370 for 200, £900 for 500 and £1,580 for 750, billed annually in Australian dollars, with a 28-day free trial and no plugins or integrations.

Best for: Charities with a technically confident person (or a partner budget) and a lot of content to deliver. For a two-person team with no IT, MoodleCloud Starter is a cheap way in, but you will do all the setup yourself.

What it is: A UK-built LMS with a visual and AI-assisted course builder, live events with automatic replays, CPD tracking and automatic certificates. Every feature is on every plan, so there is no higher tier to unlock branding, SSO or support. NFU Education runs more than 5,400 active learners on it.

Price: £49 a month for 1–50 active learners, £99 for 51–100, £150 for 101–250 and custom above that, ex VAT. Registered charities and non-profits get up to 40% off, taking the entry plan to around £29 a month. Billing is based on people who actually signed in over the year, not seats, and there is a free trial with no card required. See Continuum Learn pricing or the non-profit online learning page for the full picture.

Best for: Charities with up to a few thousand active learners that want staff induction, volunteer training, certificates and live sessions in one place without hiring anyone to run it.

What it is: A UK platform from TrainingToolz built specifically for charities to distribute, track and evidence compliance training such as safeguarding and cyber security. It comes with ready-made, editable courses, batch email invitations or a shareable link, completion certificates and activity reporting.

Price: Quick Start is £49 a month and Full Feature (create your own training, data export, monetisation) is £99 a month, subject to VAT and up to 500 training sessions a month; the homepage also quotes "from just £25 per month" with your first 100 invitations included. You pay nothing until you start distributing training and can cancel at any time. No free trial is advertised.

Best for: Small charities whose main need is proving that staff and volunteers have completed mandatory training, rather than building a learning programme.

What it is: A widely used cloud LMS from Epignosis with a clean interface, SCORM support, quizzes and certificates. It is the platform most often named by AI assistants for the charity question, largely because of its non-profit discount.

Price: A permanently free plan covers 5 users and 10 courses. Paid plans are priced in US dollars: Core from $119 a month (brackets starting at 1–40 users), Grow from $229 (1–70 users) and Pro from $449 (1–100 users, then $6 per extra user), with 20% off for annual billing. Registered non-profits get a further 20% discount on annual plans by submitting their documentation from the free plan.

Best for: Charities with a stable headcount under about 40 who want a familiar, well-reviewed LMS and are happy to pay in dollars.

What it is: A course-selling platform rather than a traditional LMS: you build courses and communities and sell them with built-in checkout. Many charities use it to run paid training for the public or professionals alongside free content for supporters.

Price: Published in pounds: Basic £46 a month (£34 billed annually), Start £92 (£69 annually), Grow £186 (£139 annually); Plus is sales-led. There is no free plan but there is a 30-day free trial. Registered non-profits can apply for 50% off a monthly Start or Grow subscription.

Best for: Charities whose training is a product they sell, or who want a public-facing course catalogue first and staff training second.

What it is: A UK compliance specialist with a library of 600-plus off-the-shelf courses (GDPR, anti-money laundering, safeguarding, health and safety) and a managed LMS. It lists charities as a sector it serves.

Price: Published per user per year: Standard from £32, Enhanced from £39, Premium from £72, with the example pricing based on around 200 users. A free trial is offered. No charity discount is published.

Best for: Larger charities with a regulated arm (housing, care, financial advice) that need mandatory training evidenced for inspectors.

What it is: A Dublin-based enterprise LMS used for employee, customer and association training, with multi-portal support, automation and strong reporting. It is a frequent name in AI-generated charity lists, although it has no charity-specific product.

Price: Quote on request. LearnUpon publishes minimum user counts (from 100 users for employees, 150 for associations) rather than prices, and states that non-profits do not have separate pricing. Third-party guides estimate roughly $6–$9 per active user per month and smallest contracts of around $10,000–$15,000 a year; treat those as unverified.

Best for: National charities with 100-plus staff and a dedicated L&D team.

What it is: A UK LMS from Kallidus that sits alongside its performance-management tools, with an off-the-shelf e-learning content library. It is often grouped with Skillcast in charity shortlists because both are UK compliance-led platforms.

Price: Quote on request. Its January 2026 G-Cloud 15 pricing document (a public-sector framework, so commercial quotes may differ) lists Kallidus Learn at £12,978 a year for up to 100 users, with a 100-user minimum, falling to £17.24 per user for the next band and a one-off implementation fee. Pricing is per enabled named user. We found no charity discount.

Best for: Large UK charities that want to consolidate learning and HR systems with one supplier.

If the budget really is zero, eligible UK charities can get Google Workspace for Nonprofits free (£0 per user per month, verified through Google's partner Percent), and education-focused organisations keep access to Google Classroom at no extra cost. It lets you share materials, set assignments and collect responses, but it is not an LMS: no completion certificates, CPD records, SCORM or automatic reminders, so you will track who has done what in a spreadsheet. Fine for a handful of volunteers; painful at fifty.

Headline prices mislead charities more than any other buyer, because most LMS pricing assumes a stable workforce. Charities have volunteers, and volunteers churn. There are three models:

A worked example: a charity with 20 staff and 80 volunteers, replacing about 30 volunteers a year. On a named-user model it will carry around 130 accounts unless someone deactivates leavers monthly; on MoodleCloud that pushes it from the 100-user Mini plan (£200 a year) to the 200-user Small plan (£370). On active-learner billing the same charity sits in Continuum Learn's 51–100 band at £99 a month, roughly £59 after the charity discount, however many volunteers come and go. Beyond price, shortlist on four questions: can it issue certificates with expiry dates for refreshers, can volunteers self-enrol without an admin creating accounts, does it run live sessions or just host content, and is support included or an upsell.