London Regional ICT Champion

According to a list leaked to the press, Capacity Builders is amongst 177 quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations) to be abolished by ministers. Capacity Builders is a significant funder of projects in the voluntary and community  sector, including 9 national support services and the Regional ICT Champions.   The leaked list reveals The Legal Services Commission, Legal [...]

Capacitybuilders  Improving Support website received a soft (unofficial) launch earlier this week. The new portal is a one-stop-shop combining information on Capacitybuilders various workstreams – Campaigning, Collaboration, ICT, etc – with visitors to the site able to search for information and resources by region or topic. A quick look at the Google map of local [...]

Capacity Builders has announced details of successful bidders into its Improving Reach Programme.  A total of £17,444,123 was awarded across the 9 English regions. So far, the only details we have are those published by Capacity Builders, which shows a total of  10 grants totalling £2,374,550 (13.6% of the total) awarded to London.  Until we [...]

Capacitybuilders has today launched a new web resource for the nine new national support services – which started running today. For those who’ve already lost the map to the promised land of Destination 2014, Improving Support increases the number of programmes from 6 national hubs to 9 national support services, all on a slimmer budget. [...]

Amongst all the rumours seeping out of Capacity Builders regarding the future funding of ICT as a national support service, the fate of the online Knowledgebase and  Suppliers Directory has been curiously absent. We can only speculate this may be because Capacity Builders believes it holds the copyright to Knowledgebase content and will simply “hoover [...]

It’s been squeaky-bum time for everybody connected with the ICT Hub. Yesterday afternoon was supposed to see the long awaited announcement of ICT’s fate as a nationally delivered support service, and when no announcement was made, our spies told us that any public announcements on ICT had been delayed until later today. To add grist [...]

Capacitybuilders today announced details of the lead organisations it will be working with over the next three years to strengthen third sector support services for the benefit of diverse frontline organisations across England. A total of £11 million has been awarded across seven priority workstreams. The successful lead organisations are all supported in their bids [...]

    The London ICT Champion gives you the edited highlights from the launch of Capacity Builders Destination 2014 Strategy at Birmingham’s Botanic Gardens on 3 July. Declaration: In the interests of transparency, the London ICT Champion is funded by Capacity Builders and is based at Lasa, a delivery partner of the ICT Hub – [...]

Thanks to Jackie Carey of Community First, the West Midlands new Regional ICT Champion, for flagging this story up: Earlier this week, a Charity Finance report on Capacitybuilders draft tender for national support services said: “ICT as a support service seems to have significantly lower levels of need/support,” Capacitybuilders added. At first sight this goes [...]

The London Regional ChangeUp Consortium has secured £2m for London’s 39 Consortia to 2008. Consortia projects are located in every borough and sub-region. Your very own London Region ICT Champion is set to be joined by ‘pan-London champions’ for Equalities and Workforce Development. Projects cover: Equalities Volunteering Social Enterprise Community Development Workforce Development Local Area [...]