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ID
52170
Name
Description
This organisation is a recently launched professional body concerned with all aspects of regulation and licensing. Examples include markets and football stadiums. A key aim of the organisation is to provide information to the public. They are a membership organisation currently working within England and Wales but planning to expand into the rest of the UK and further a field. The organisation has been working informally for a couple of years but is now working to put systems and procedures in place. One of the things they'd like to consider is how e-communication, e-participation and e-administration can work for them. They plan to have a couple of office based staff with others working remotely. They would also like to communicate effectively with their members through their website. Their existing website doesn't meet their needs and they would like to re-launch it with a new design, interactive features and a structure they can maintain themselves. Initially the organisation would like a volunteer to work with them to put together a strategy for their IT needs and to define a number of projects which can be offered to other volunteers. This is a remote opportunity but the chief executive of the organisation is happy to travel throughout the UK for an initial face-to-face meeting.
Skill Type
Strategy
Region
Remote
Postcode
SE10
Region Detail
Greenwich
ID
20840
Name
Description
Lone parent’s charity would like to add new pages and some additional features such as animations to existing flat website and to acquire the skills to develop and maintain the site themselves.
Skill Type
Website
Region
London
Postcode
E27
Region Detail
Tower Hamlets
ID
51824
Name
Description
This charity runs training and drop in advice sessions for Ethiopians and BME groups in North London. These popular services which assist people to access education and employment needs a volunteer to help them build a website to advertise their services and give their community online access to their information. It is a small charity that would require a website that will be easy to update on a regular basis but they have no funds and they would like it to be built with a free CMS for these reasons. They have a clear idea for the look and feel and have the content ready but they do need advice and guidance about a domain name and hosting deal.
Skill Type
Website
ID
52269
Name
Description
This charity is a youth club operating in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. They are open for a couple of hours every Thursday evening and usually have between 15 and 20 young people attending. They have a number of sporting facilities for the youngsters - table tennis, pool, basketball, 5-a-side football - and a small canteen. They also have a computer room with 3 PCs where young people can access the Internet, send and receive e-mails, do their homework, etc. Often these young people do not have computer access at home. The charity is looking for a volunteer who can do a general health check on their PCs and provide some advice on their set up. The young people are quite smart and occasionally manage to bypass the NetNanny software. The charity would appreciate help to tighten the security on the PCs. If possible they would like the volunteer to visit the centre on a regular basis, perhaps once a month, to check the PCs and help the young people with any problems they have. Previous experience of working with youngsters is not necessary but the volunteer should have an interest in working with young people aged 8 to 16 and from diverse backgrounds. The volunteer would need to undergo a CRB check.
Skill Type
Technical Support
Region
London
Postcode
W14
ID
51493
Name
Members-only website, burn to CD, North West, Manchester, M32
Description
This charity works throughout the Greater Manchester region to provide support services to people with autism and their families. They provide a wide range of services including support groups, newsletters, drop-in sessions and one-to-one support. Through leisure activities they support people in improving their social skills and can also help young adults moving into employment. One of the services the charity provides is a "Parent Resource Pack". This is currently a printed document that rapidly becomes out of date. The charity would like to make this available in an electronic format in two different ways: firstly a password protected area of a website and secondly on CD-ROM in a web based format. The charity would like to be able to maintain and update the information online and through an administration interface choose to burn the site to CD or to print the entire contents for posting to members without Internet access. The members-only access would be on a domain linked from their existing website and authorised members would be able to view and print any of the pages. The charity are currently ensuring that they have an electronic version of each page in the pack but need help from a volunteer in setting up the website. They have some ideas about how the site should be designed but would welcome any suggestions from the volunteer on this and also the technologies they will need to allow them to maintain the site in the future.
Skill Type
Website
Region
North West
Postcode
M32
Region Detail
Stretford
ID
51488
Name
Description
This Community Resource Centre is looking for a volunteer to help them promote their groups and activities to the local community via a website. It is vital that the website will be simple to update by non-technical personal so a Content Management System should be used. The organisation need advice about an affordable hosting deal and domain registration. They are happy to consider a remote volunteer and work with you via telephone and email. This would be a rewarding opportunity to provide an invaluable information source to an entire community.
Skill Type
Website
Region
Northern Ireland
Postcode
BT20
Region Detail
Bangor
ID
21454
Name
WPTechnical Support1503.1354 North East, Chester le Street, DH3
Description
This County Durham-based charity provides a free impartial and confidential advice service mainly through a drop-in service but also through a number of projects. They aim to ensure that no one is disadvantaged by not being aware of information and services available to them. The charity uses MS Excel to manage their accounts. They are sure that they could make this more efficient by linking information between worksheets so that it is automatically updated but don't have the skills to do this. They would like a volunteer with Excel knowledge to show them how to link the worksheets. Technical support
Skill Type
Technical Support
Region
North East
Postcode
DH3
Region Detail
Chester le Street
ID
50299
Name
Description
This charity offers homeless men and women a home, work and the chance to rebuild their self-respect in a supportive, community environment. They require an IT professional to volunteer to assist them with some excel macros and VBA utilities.
Skill Type
Programming
Region
East of England
Postcode
CB1
Region Detail
Cambridge
ID
21418
Name
Description
This support organisation providing a helpline for men and women affected by domestic violence requires a volunteer IT trainer for the 14 staff & volunteers of their organisation. They have identified a need to become more skilled in their use of Outlook, Powerpoint and Excel to improve their working practices, their presentations and their reports that enable them to remain funded and active. They would like a volunteer trainer to design and deliver a one off series of group training to build on their existing skills. Trainer
Skill Type
Training
Region
East Midlands
Postcode
LE1
Region Detail
Leicester
ID
21451
Name
Description
This advice bureau that offers independent advice to the community of Crawley, and which can only run with volunteer support to deliver all aspects of this important service, would like a volunteer for advice about options for an intranet and help in building it. This organisation has over 60 staff and volunteers who all work at different times. Information sharing can be very difficult and waste paper. They would like to talk to someone who has experience of designing and managing an intranet. As an organisation they have a well managed technical environment and commitment to making the best use of technology. If they decide that an Intranet will offer the solution they are looking for then they would need help to build it in a way that they could update easily in-house. Creative (e.g. wikis), but ultimately manageable and sustainable ideas welcomed! Website
Skill Type
Website
Region
Remote
Postcode
RH10
Region Detail
Crawley
ID
21392
Name
Description
This charity provides local history information on their village including the census and would like a volunteer to update or create a new MS Access database. They were previously running a database on D-Base, however they have started to create a new database in MS Access but this is only half completed. This project would suit a volunteer who can create a new database with the possibility of having the database in a web format with specific access rights. Database
Skill Type
Database
Region
Scotland
Postcode
ML9
Region Detail
ID
50815
Name
Description
This Essex-based charity offers counselling and training services to all people - adults, children and young people, families and couples requires a review and update of their current IT strategy which was drawn up some 5 years ago.
Skill Type
Audit/strategy
Region
South East
Postcode
CM1
Region Detail
CHELMSFORD
ID
51998
Name
Description
This small organisation has one computer and printer that they rely on for their mental health service users forum. They have one member of staff (self confessed technically underskilled & overworked) who is battling with the equipment. HP Deskjet 710C printer is not printing correctly and pages fade to nothing (cartridge change did not help). This is their immediate problem. Advice in person or over the telephone would be welcomed. They would also much benefit from someone who could give them simple maintenance overview, and a basic audit and recommendations advice.
Skill Type
Technical Support
Region
South West
Postcode
BH15
Region Detail
POOLE
ID
51414
Name
Description
A charity that provides advice and information services to the public needs to setup a database in order to bring their systems up to date. The main reason for setting up the database is so that they can manage the contact details of the various funding bodies and the amounts they can offer in the way of grants etc. The charity envisages using MS Access XP. This would suit a volunteer with a good knowledge of MS Access databases who is able to help the charity to best utilise the data they collect.
Skill Type
Database
Region
Wales
Postcode
SA11
Region Detail
Neath
ID
21414
Name
Description
This charity run a community transport service. Working in a rural area they provide transport for vulnerable people where public transport is not available. Clients may request transport to take them to doctor or hospital appointments, to visit care homes, etc. A team of volunteer drivers are available to provide transport in their own vehicles or in one of two owned by the charity. The charity has an old laptop that they would like to use for a new member of staff. Currently the machine crashes on a regular basis and needs to be re-booted. It is running Windows XP Home edition and the crashes usually occur when using Word or Excel. They would like a volunteer to look at this laptop and see if it can be cleaned up in any way to stop the crashes occurring. Technical support
Skill Type
Technical Support
Region
West Midlands
Postcode
HR4
Region Detail
Hereford
ID
52301
Name
Description
This charity works with disabled people throughout the Bradford people. They deal with all sorts of disabilities - mental, physical, learning difficulties, etc. - and people of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and religions. They seek to empower disabled people to enable them to lead their chosen lifestyle. They operate a number of projects such as welfare and advice, outreach, deaf empowerment, training and helping people into employment. The charity is looking for an experienced volunteer to help them develop an IT strategy in line with their existing business plan. The charity has about 20 PCs running MS software and use MS Exchange Server. They would like to consider whether they are meeting the needs of their staff and external organisations that they come into contact with. They would like to put in place a plan for the next three years. In particular they are considering moving away from Exchange Server and would like to consider the alternatives available and the costs involved.
Skill Type
Strategy
Region
Yorkshire & Humberside
Postcode
BD3
Region Detail
Bradford
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