Opportunities of the Month

All the Volunteer Opportunities listed below were 'Available' at the time the Volunteer Newsletter was put together. If, when contacting the charity, they tell you that a volunteer has started work on the Volunteer Opportunity, please ask the charity to contact info@iT4Communities.org.uk so that we can assist them in assigning the volunteer to the Work Package. Once the charity has assigned a volunteer, the Volunteer Opportunity state will be changed to “In progress”, and taken off the iT4C website.

Please go to www.iT4Communities.org.uk, then Log in and Search for volunteering opportunities - for these and more ‘Available Volunteer Opportunities’. Alternatively simply go to each Volunteer Opportunity using the live links under the Volunteer Opportunity Name (you will need to login en route).

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Opportunity Name: Website RSS Feeds
Skill Type: Website
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside
Locality: Summerbridge
Postcode: HG3
Virtual: No

Description: This innovative online charity, devoted to aiding vulnerable children, disabled children and their families in Kenya would like support with their website. Currently the charities site is static however they have just recently incorporated a blog where they would like to enable RSS feeds into this. The charity would like a volunteer help them embed RSS feeds as well give them advice on how best to bring their site forward and enabling them to manage the site more proactively.

Opportunity Name: WPDatabase1480.1331
Skill Type: Database
Region: South East
Locality: Kingston upon Thames
Postcode: KT2
Virtual: No

Description: This charity helps people get into and manage voluntary work in the local community. They would like a basic database setup in order for them to track the work they carry out. The charity would like a database setup in a format where they can add volunteers and charities and be able to pair volunteers with specific projects. A volunteer with MS Access skills would be most welcome on this project in order help the charity make sense of the data they have collected in paper format.

Opportunity Name: Database - needs a professional review and small changes
Skill Type: Database
Region: London
Locality: Southwark
Postcode: SE1
Virtual: No

Description: This charity helps people get into and manage voluntary work in the local community. They would like a basic database setup in order for them to track the work they carry out. The charity would like a database setup in a format where they can add volunteers and charities and be able to pair volunteers with specific projects. A volunteer with MS Access skills would be most welcome on this project in order help the charity make sense of the data they have collected in paper format.

Opportunity Name: Website - Professional Advice
Skill Type: Website
Region: East of England
Locality: Cambridge
Postcode: CB1
Virtual: No

Description: This charity offers homeless men and women a home, work and the chance to rebuild their self-respect in a supportive, community environment. As a large national charity they have many associated websites that are separately registered with ISPs. The charity is seeking professional advice as to how to best go about streamlining this situation. This would be a quick project for a volunteer who is experienced in this field.

Opportunity Name: Database - Access
Skill Type: Database
Region: East of England
Locality: Cambridge
Postcode: CB1
Virtual: No

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 experienced database programmer to assist with their database which is nearly complete but will require some adjustments over time. It would be prudent for a volunteer to be able to document the database now and therefore be in a position to advise about future improvements as the system is used.

Opportunity Name: Excel - VBA
Skill Type: Programming
Region: East of England
Locality: Cambridge
Postcode: CB1
Virtual: No

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.

Opportunity Name: Crystal Reports assistance required
Skill Type: Database
Region: East of England
Locality: Cambridge
Postcode: CB1
Virtual: No

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 to customise Crystal Reports on their bespoke database that enables them to keep donor records.

Opportunity Name: Website Design
Region: London
Locality: LB of Camden
Postcode: NW5
Virtual: No

Description: This London based charity, providing free, confidential and impartial advice for people who live, work or study in the London borough of Camden, needs assistance in putting together their internet and intranet sites. The internet site is to raise awareness and promote the organisation's services as well as to act as a tool for communicating with funders, clients and other agencies. They would also like to use the internet site for recruitment and job advertising. The site will need to incorporate forms for referrals and feedback. The intranet site will be for internal communication purposes for staff and volunteers. Types of information for the intranet site include: minutes, handbooks and news. They would also like the intranet site to have a notice board facility. Both sites need to be accessible and user friendly. The charity have done some work themselves on internet site but would still appreciate some help with this and the intranet. The volunteer will need to have Dreamweaver skills.

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Please go to www.iT4Communities.org.uk, then Log in and Search for volunteering opportunities - for these and more ‘Available Work Packages’. Alternatively simply go to each Work Package using the live links under the Work Package Name (you will need to login en route).