Welcome to a special newsletter

Dear Volunteers

This issue of the newsletter is guest edited by Anne Stafford, Deputy Programme Director of iT4Communities.

This month we wanted to focus on just one of iT4Communities potential beneficiaries - Charities and agencies working with people who are, or have, experienced homelessness.

Jamie's Computers - an ethical approach to computer re-use and recycling with a team of workers who were previously homeless or similarly disadvantaged.

Bridge Centre - St Mungo's project giving homeless people the opportunity to gain the skills and support to get paid employment.

Why such a focussed newsletter?

Over the next two months iT4C will be running workshops with Homeless Link. Homeless Link's Innovations Project Officer, Craig Weeks, has organised these sessions as an opportunity for workers in the homeless sector to share information about good use of IT to help them work better and do better work.

iT4C will be assisting at Homeless Link's series of workshops around the UK to help Homeless Agencies utilise IT for their organisation and clients.

Homeless Link's Innovations Project Officer, Craig Weeks has organised events in:

• Leeds - 6th February (St George's Centre)
• London - 14th February (Homeless Link, Southwark)
• Brighton - 21st February (First Base Day Centre)
• Newcastle - 6th March (Crisis Skylight)

Across the UK there are inspiring projects involving IT, homelessness and volunteers and we thought you would like to know more about them.

Anne Stafford, Deputy Programme Director