About Tinkr Creative
Hi there, we're Tinkr Creative, a digital consultancy specialising in website performance optimisation, front-end development, UX & UI design and app development. We were founded by Pete Stewart in 2026, building on over a decade of freelance work under the Tinkr name, and we're just as hands-on and considered about projects now as we were on day one.
It's been a good year for recognition. Pete, our Founder and CTO, was named in Computing magazine's IT Leaders 100 for 2026, and the Nant Gwrtheyrn app we built won Digital Project of the Year and Digital Resilience Initiative of the Year at Computing's Digital Technology Leaders Awards. We're proud of both, but especially proud that they came from the same care and attention we bring to every project, big or small.
What we do
We mainly work with charities and NGOs to improve digital performance and user experience, making sure the people visiting your site can get to what they need without friction. Page speed and usability aren't afterthoughts for us: a slow or confusing site quietly costs you supporters and subscribers, even when everything else about it looks great.
We also offer a number of other services alongside digital consultancy and optimisation, and over the last couple of years we've expanded into native app development: Nant Gwrtheyrn, mentioned above, is a great example of that work.
Alongside client projects, we're also building Achene, our own SaaS platform for online teaching, in the same spirit of making things that are genuinely easy for people to use.
Our background
Pete has been working as a digital developer professionally since 2007 (over 19 years now) and started building websites as a hobby back in 1996. He began freelancing under the Tinkr name in 2015, and this year took the step of turning that into Tinkr Creative, so we can take on bigger, more ambitious projects and grow the team over time.
Before going freelance, Pete was Web Development Manager and Co-Director at the New Internationalist, where he spent just over three years and still works with them on a freelance basis today. It's a team and a mission he has a huge amount of admiration for.
Before that, he was Senior Developer at a startup called Gumpo, and occasionally still works with them now. Prior to Gumpo, he spent five years at Matmi, starting as a Designer/Developer in January 2007 and later becoming Head of Experimental Technologies.
Before all of that, Pete studied Architecture, Graphic Design, Animation, Photography and Art History, building websites in his spare time throughout. You can find out more about his work history on LinkedIn.