London Regional ICT Champion

TalkTalk, in association with Citizens Online and The Daily Mirror, are launching the Digital Heroes Awards 2010 to find this years UK Digital Heroes. How many winners will there be this year? A total of 12 Digital Heroes Awards will be awarded in 2010, one from each region of the UK, with 3 nominees shortlisted from [...]

In these tough economic times with funding cuts of 15-20% widely predicted for the third Sector, the organisations that survive and prosper will be those who understand and invest in their technology.  A key part of that is convincing a funder that investing in technology – a campaign website, a case tracking database and so [...]

A funding fare jointly hosted by KCSC and CaVSA H&F brought together last week funders from City Bridges Trust, Big Lottery and Grassroots Grants.  With apologies to the keynote speakers, I’m reproducing the edited highlights of their presentations on the state of funding for London’s third sector. Context: coalition Government Labour controls 17/32 London boroughs [...]

Some forthcoming ICT events for your diary. 18 May @ I-Trust, Ely, Cambs – How to Cost and Fund ICT projects – In this 90 minute workshop I’ll be showing the essentials of how to put together a winning technology bid to a funder.  More details to be confirmed. 24 May @ NCYVS, London N1 [...]

Lasa has launched a new policy paper as part of its campaign for ICT to be recognised as a legitmate cost of providing a service by funders and policy-makers.   Lasa also called for funders to support circuit riders (or mobile ICT support workers) (URL) to provide on the ground strategic support to help Voluntary [...]

The government has announced the award of 558 grants to voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) totalling £13.356m from its Targeted Support Fund. Launched in February 2009, the Targeted Support Fund is part of the Government’s recession action plan.  The programme is funded by the Office of the Third Sector and delivered at a national level [...]

A recent survey by the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) finds that charitable trusts and foundations have also been significantly hit by the downturn, with 75% of respondents reporting  a significant decrease in investment value over the past 12 months. The ACF survey revealed these figures from grantmaking foundations: 80% of investments decreased since June [...]

Office of the Third Sector announces 9 regional workshops to provide voluntary and community organisations with a practical understanding of how to access the support available under its £42.5 million action plan ‘Real Help for Communities’. Details are beginning to emerge from Office of the Third Sector about how to access the recently announced £42.5m. [...]

According to the 2008 NCVO Almanac third sector income received from government was £10.5 billion in 2005/06. Tracking where the money went is one thing, but where does it come from and does it join-up, if at all?  My colleague Andrew Samuel coined ‘joined-up-ness’ – it should be in the Urban Dictionary, but isn’t  – [...]

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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 [...]