Infrastructure for public interest work in Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle has a dense mix of universities, hospitals, councils, housing providers, and contractors. When people start holding those systems to account in public, the website carrying that work needs to be built properly.
I build and protect the sites behind that work. Static builds, Cloudflare setups, lawful fingerprinting, and evidence grade logging, tuned for projects that expect attention from institutions as well as residents.
Who this fits in Newcastle
The people who need serious infrastructure are usually the ones asking awkward questions and documenting what happened carefully.
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Advocacy and survivor led groups
Projects based around lived experience in areas like Byker, Benwell, Elswick, Walker, and the West End that need a stable public site instead of a fragile social page.
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Watchdog and scrutiny projects
People tracking decisions by Newcastle City Council, housing providers, contractors, or regional bodies that affect residents across the city.
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Student and university linked campaigns
Campaigns at Newcastle and Northumbria universities that outgrow a shared document and need a static site that can cope with sudden spikes of attention.
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Independent media and blogs
Citizen journalists and issue focused blogs covering the city centre, Ouseburn, Jesmond, Heaton, and beyond that want their site to hold steady when a story travels.
If your work is lawful, serious, and likely to draw interest from more than just your immediate neighbourhood, it belongs here even if your team is small.
What I actually do for Newcastle projects
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Static sites that behave under load
Fast static builds served through Cloudflare. No fragile plugin stacks or bloated dashboards. Good for projects that might suddenly be linked by journalists, campaigners, or institutions.
See Secure static sites.
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Cloudflare firewall and routing
Firewall rules, bot mitigation, rate limits, and Workers tuned for public interest work. Search engines and accessibility tools are welcomed, hostile automation and scraping are treated as a cost.
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Evidence grade logging
Edge logs and exports that show what hit your site, when, and how it behaved. Structured so they can sit inside complaints, internal reviews, and regulator correspondence.
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Monitoring aware fingerprinting
Lawful fingerprinting that runs on your own domain. Useful when you suspect quiet monitoring from institutions, firms, or outsourced providers that do not want to leave an obvious trail.
Detail and examples on Fingerprinting and Edge Tracker.
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Email and DNS that hold together
SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and DNS tuned so your messages reach residents, partners, media, and oversight bodies, rather than sitting in spam when you most need contact to land.
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Governance checks that match reality
Practical fixes to privacy notices, cookie language, and data handling descriptions so they describe what your infrastructure really does instead of what a template imagined.
Local realities in Newcastle
Newcastle is full of big systems in a small footprint. When someone starts putting receipts online, those systems tend to notice.
Projects here often touch on housing, health, education, policing, transport, and regional governance. Once the work starts circulating, attention can arrive from councils, NHS bodies, universities, contractors, and national agencies in the same week.
A static site behind Cloudflare behaves as if that was always the plan instead of a surprise.
How I build for that context
- Infrastructure that assumes scrutiny from institutions as well as residents.
- Separation between content and technical work so you keep full editorial control.
- Logging and fingerprinting that surface repeat actors and patterns without drowning you in raw data.
- Documentation and diagrams that trustees, volunteers, and organisers can actually understand.
Boundaries, set out plainly
These limits keep the work defensible on both sides.
- Ki-Ki provides technical services only. I am not a publisher, editor, investigator, or legal adviser.
- I do not draft, upload, or assist with allegation content about named individuals. If you publish that kind of material, it is your decision and your responsibility.
- Any limited SEO or onboarding copy I prepare is neutral and only goes live after your written approval.
- You must not suggest that Ki-Ki endorses your campaign, your allegations, or your politics.
- If a project crosses into unlawful or high risk territory, I will refuse or terminate the work.
The full position is set out in the Neutral infrastructure policy, alongside the Terms of use and Privacy policy.
Questions Newcastle projects usually ask
Do you only work with established charities in Newcastle?
No. I work with small charities, CICs, informal groups, and individual projects, as long as the work is lawful, serious, and in the public interest.
Can you harden a site we already have?
Often yes. I can place an existing site behind Cloudflare, improve DNS and email, and introduce logging. If the current setup is too fragile, we can plan a move to a static build instead.
Will fingerprinting identify real people by name?
No. It identifies devices and behaviour that hit your site, not named individuals. It is set up as defensive monitoring and aligned with your policies, not as a tool for personal doxxing.
Do you only work with teams based in the city centre?
No. I work with projects based across Newcastle, including Byker, Benwell, Elswick, Scotswood, Walker, Heaton, Jesmond, and the outer estates, as well as groups that work across the wider region.
What if a council, university, or contractor disputes what we publish?
I cannot give legal advice, however I can make sure your logs and technical position are clear enough to support conversations with lawyers, regulators, or oversight bodies if you choose to involve them.
Start a Newcastle focused conversation
If your project is based in Newcastle or heavily affects people in the city, tell me what you are building, what worries you, and what level of attention you expect. I will be honest about whether I am the right fit.