London Regional ICT champion

The London Region ICT Champion’s mission is to support voluntary sector organisations to understand and use technology to better achieve their goal of delivering high quality services for all.

Access to information and communication technology (ICT) plays an important role in enabling voluntary and community sector organisations to build healthy, vibrant and strong communities and engage with funders and supporters.

Campaigning and Advocating for London’s voluntary and community sector
We’ve been working with stakeholders, policy makers and funders to give voice to voluntary sector ICT and make sure there’s a co-ordinated ICT strategy for mapping the gaps and proposing sustainable solutions to help  voluntary and community sector organisations to make better use of ICT.

London’s Circuit Rider community

Lasa has been leading on the development of Circuit Riders – mobile ICT support workers – across the UK. In London, our Regional Champion hosts quarterly events for London’s riders to share learning and network with others in the field. To get involved in our circuit rider network events, find out more at www.ukriders.info

Local Infrastructure Organisations and Networks
Lasa’s London Regional ICT Champion can also help your network or organisations to make better use of ICT in many practical ways:

• sign-posting to high quality and impartial sources of ICT advice designed specically for the voluntary sector such as the ICT Knowledgebase and SuppliersDirectory;
• research and evaluate how community organisations access and use ICT;
• sharing ICT good practice and news through the ICT Champion blog and Lasa’s Computanews magazine;
• working with LVSC and other partners to deliver one day workshops on managing ICT, how to cost and fund ICT projects, how to use web based tools and making your ICT accessible
• delivering shorter ICT workshops and presentations to help organisations make better use of
  ICT and understand how they can apply new technologies to their work.

What other’s said about us
“Lasa’s ICT Champion is a great resource for the sector – it’s helped keep ICT issues on funders’ agenda and provided us with high quality and impartial advice whenever we’ve needed it. The ICT Champion’s events and training have always been really useful for helping us to keep up to date and network with others in the field.”

Nicole Aebi-Moyo (BOND)

About Capacitybuilders

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Capacitybuilders is funding the Regional ICT Champion project from 2008-11 and  is the non-departmental public body (NDPB) set up in 2006 to take over the management of the ChangeUp programme and to work with other funders to build the capacity of the Third Sector. It exists to create a more effective third sector and does this by improving support for third sector organisations.

About Lasa

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Lasa delivers the London ICT Champion project and has provided ICT advice to mainly London based voluntary organisations since 1984. We all use ICT now, and increasingly depend on it to deliver important services. Lasa also delivers a number of award winning services to the sector and funders:

• ICT Knowledgebase – over 300 articles on all aspects of ICT
• Suppliers Directory – locate quality ICT support
• Circuit Riding – mobile ICT support working
• Computanews magazine – for strategic insight into sector ICT issues.  Now a free download.
• London ICT Bulletin – monthly round-up of up-to-date news on events, training, and funding for ICT.
• Rightsnet – with millions of hits a month, lasa’s welfare rights website provides access to the most up-to-date welfare benefit and tax credit information on the web
• AIMS – case management software

About NAVCA

NAVCA  manages the Regional ICT Champions project and is the national voice of local third sector infrastructure in England.  It aims to ensure communities are well served by the local third sector by supporting its members and their work with over 160,000 local groups and organisations.  NAVCA believes that local voluntary and community action is vital for healthy and inclusive communities.