Supporting iT4Communities

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Every £1 donated becomes £4 of volunteer IT support to a charity.

Thank you for supporting iT4Communities, providing volunteer IT professional support to UK charities.

Your donation

We value your donations and for every £100 raised we can:

  • Save a charity thousands of pounds through professional IT support
  • Introduce an iT4Communities volunteer to 3 charities in need
  • Help deliver £400 worth of IT support to the voluntary sector
  • Encourage 100 more IT professionals to volunteer

How we are funded

Our offices and all office support are kindly donated by The Information Technologists Company.

Financial support comes from:

Thank you very much to you for finding an experienced and qualified volunteer with lots of interpersonal skills to help us to create our web page, it will help a lot of socially disadvantaged people.

Mr Sangarappillai, Helping Hands for Refugees and Disabled

  • Private donations - launched in September 2008 and already £10,000 raised.
  • Sponsorship - our annual volunteering awards are sponsored by the British Computer Society this year.
  • Corporate donations - we would like to thank DZBank.
  • Intellect - we and our friends at AbilityNet are the chosen charities for the 2008 Intellect Charity Ball.
  • Partnership working - we would like to thank Women In Technology, BCS, Intellect, NAVCA, NCVO, LASA, UKCircuit Riders, ICT Champions for their promotion of iT4Communities.

We would like to thank Denver Technologies and Whiteoaks PR for free professional advice - saving us money and helping us improve our services.

We are also approaching Trusts and Government departments where appropriate.

What do we cost and what do we do?

More information

iT4Communities in figures

Read about some of our projects

Our "In figures" page gives a summary of our results - for every £1 spent £4 of support is given to charities.

Our running costs this year were £190,000 and enabled us to support more than 600 projects and deliver value to the voluntary sector at the rate of over £750,000 per year

Future aims

In the next five years we aim to:

  • Increase our impressive match rate from 1 in 3 to 1 in 2 projects and beyond!
  • Encourage another 5,000 IT professionals to volunteer and help even more charities.
  • Initiate new mentoring schemes and other specialist programmes in partnership with our charities, volunteers, partners and supporters.
  • Deliver another £3 million worth of IT support to charities in need