Charities Newsletter
Issue 5

iT4Communities (iT4C) has achieved a £2million worth of free support to Charities and Community Organisations!

The announcement was made at the 2006 awards ceremony held on the 28th November at the WCIT Hall. iT4Communities a programme of WCIT, was launched on 22 November 2002 with the aim of 'Introducing IT Professionals wanting to volunteer their skills to charities needing IT Help'.

iT4C now has -

• 1,633 charities and other voluntary and community organisations
• 3,912 IT professional volunteers
• With 148 projects in progress and 340 projects completed.

These are figures at 1 December 2006.

At the first Annual IT Volunteering Awards on 28 November 2006, David Edwards, Operations Director for WCIT, our parent organisation, said

"We have recently passed the milestone of having delivered over £2m worth of IT volunteering projects to the Voluntary and Community sector. We are very proud to have been able to make this contribution and we would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank all our volunteers without whom this achievement would not have been possible."

Our calculation of the value volunteers and iT4C have delivered is based upon independent research to assess the value of volunteer effort in the voluntary sector and of the effort actually made by iT4C volunteers. The two sources are -

• Report to iT4Communities on the value of pro bono ICT advice, consultancy and support showing what voluntary sector organisations expect to pay for professional IT expertise
• Results of survey of volunteering effort 2005-2006 showing that volunteers spend an average of more than 10 days per project (details to be published in the next few days on our website)