Making The Best Use of Free ICT Support Workshops

Overview: Interactive 3 hour workshop looking at the practical ways of working with IT professionals as IT volunteers in the community and voluntary sector Aim: To enable groups, organisations and charities to feel confident that they could use a volunteer IT professional to support them with IT projects for their organisation. Workshop Content: Is an IT volunteer the best option/an option/the only option? What are the advantages of using IT professionals as volunteers? Concerns and how to manage them. How to manage an IT volunteer project to success. Who should attend: Representatives of organisations who are in a position to/wish to manage an IT Volunteer project; the accidental techie, the manager, a director, administrator. Attendees do not need to be an IT manager or expert to attend. Where are they being held: At least one will be held in every area. Some examples of the next few venues and contacts are listed below. Please contact Anne Stafford anne@wcit.org.uk for any general queries about the programme. Date Region Hosted By   Contact name Contact telephone 12/10/2006 S West COSMIC Ottery St Mary Sarah Stevenson 01404 813226 24/10/2006 N East Middlesbrough Voluntary Development Agency Middlesbrough Nichola Taylor 01642 803614 01642 249300 27/10/2006 C London SAVO Southwark Seyi Madariola 020 7358 4174 31/10/2006 Yorkshire Voluntary Action Sheffield Sheffield 0114 2493360 02/11/2006 E London VATH Tower Hamlets Cath Bavage 020 7377 0956 07/11/2006 London WRC City of London Nicole Aebi 020 7324 3030 05/12/2006 N London Barnet CVS Barnet Celia Enyioko / Urmi 020 8364 8400  Ext: 211 11/01/2007 W London HAVS Hillingdon Katie Musgrave 01895 442730 23/01/2007 West Mids Herefordshire Voluntary Action Hereford Angela Legg 01432 3439432