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Opportunity Name: Website Improvements
Skill Type: Website
Region: South East
Locality: Brighton
Postcode: BN3
Virtual: Yes

Description: This south-coast charity provides a mediation service for dealing with neighbourhood conflict. Their website is out of date, needs a more modern look, and needs to incorporate their new logo. They would like to put all their leaflets onto the site, and to have an online referral form and an online contact form. Their offices are partially accessible. They would prefer not to have a virtual volunteer. They want to be able to maintain the site themselves after you've gone, so they need an easy to use CMS. You'll need to define the new pages in more detail, implement a simple CMS, build the new pages, and train them to update the website.

Opportunity Name: Create Apple Scripts for Entourage [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Programming
Region: South East
Locality: Wokingham
Postcode: RG41
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based in Wokingham develops, promotes and supports local voluntary and community activity in their area. They have Apple Macs running OSX and they use Entourage for sending email to their 500 members. Their ISP will only allow 50 emails to be sent at one time. They would like you to create an Apple Script to move 50 messages from a Draft folder to the Outbox, check when they have all gone and then repeat the process until all messages in Drafts have gone.

Opportunity Name: Create Case Management/Time recording Access 2007 Database
Skill Type: Database
Region: South East
Locality: Rushmore Borough Council
Postcode: Gu11
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based in Aldershot provides practical and emotional support to individuals and families infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS, living in Hampshire and West Surrey. They have a dedicated drop in centre in Aldershot, an office in Portsmouth and they work in the community at hospitals and within clients' homes. They have a peer-to-peer network of 4 PCs and a laptop running Windows XP and Office 2007. They currently use paper records and would like to move to having a database to hold details about clients, services provided, usage, case management details, and time spent by project. They will need reports for day-to-day management, and periodic reports including usage, and analysis of demographics for their funders. Since Access is still new to them, they would like you to train them to use the database you create. Although much of the work can be done remotely, they do want to meet you, show you examples of current reports, and you'll need to be there to train them. Also, they'll want to do a CRB check on you.

Opportunity Name: E-Commerce Implementation for Small Charity
Skill Type: Website
Region: South East
Locality: havant
Postcode: po9
Virtual: Yes

Description: This award-winning charity based in Havant provides support to those with long-term medical conditions and runs the only on-going support course in the UK. They have a successful website which they built themselves and are looking for someone to recommend and implement an e-commerce package to help them sell membership and goods online. They currently have about 25 items including T shirts, badges and key rings.

Opportunity Name: Advice about Creating Online Training Course / Webinars
Skill Type: Website
Region: South East
Locality: havant
Postcode: po9
Virtual: Yes

Description: This award-winning charity based in Havant provides support to those with long-term medical conditions and runs the only on-going support course in the UK. They are restricted in the number of trainees they can attract in Havant. They would like to build on their successful website, and turn the course into an online course which could be delivered as a webinar, allowing trainees to log in and interact with the tutor. The tutor's typing is too slow for online chat, and they would like trainees to be able to see other's answers appearing on a virtual screen or even see the tutor via webcam writing the responses up. They would like your suggestions about how this can be achieved and what extra hardware and software will be needed.

Opportunity Name: Help Create Video Content
Skill Type: Creative Design
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: W11
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based near Temple tube station helps patients suffering from a rare lung disease, that principally affects women during the prime of their lives; their families and friends. The disease leads to deterioration of the lungs, the need for a lung transplant and, failing that, to the death of the patient. They help funds research into the disease and offer patient support. They have a website created for them by one of their trustees. They would like to show presentations from their AGM, and interviews as videos, on their website. They need your help to plan the content, create some videos, and put them on the website.

Opportunity Name: Help Small Charity Update Website
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: N7
Virtual: No

Description: This charity and social enterprise based near Holloway Road tube station provides counselling and complementary therapies to people experiencing acute stress and mental health difficulties. They get referrals from GP's, Community Mental Health Teams, and Social Services. They have a website but they would like changes to the style and design. They also need to be able to keep it up to date, so they're looking to you to implement a CMS and show them how to use it to change text and images, and possibly add new pages.

Opportunity Name: New Brochure-Type Website with CMS
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: IG6
Virtual: No

Description: This charitable organisation based near Hainault tube station helps the long-term unemployed referred by job centres to get employment. They do this by providing support, advocacy, training in motivation and improving their self-esteem, and in negotiating with prospective employers. They also provide practice placements for social workers in partnership with universities. They would like you to build them a brochure-type website with a CMS, and train them to use the CMS, so that they can keep the website up to date after you've gone. They have a good idea of the design and a lot of the content is ready. They have a domain name but they need your guidance on hosting. Most of the work can be done remotely, but they would like an initial meeting and you'll need to be there to train them.

Opportunity Name: Advise on structure of public information website
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: City of London
Postcode: EC4M
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity is a member association aiming to make the law work for a better environment. In partnership with a university they are in the process of developing a website to make information available to the general public. Whether someone has a problem with a noisy neighbour or is concerned about a major development nearby the site will provide basic legal information and provide pointers to sources of help. They are working with a IT consultant to develop a CMS-based site. However, none of the parties involved has experience of presenting information to the public. They have found some guidelines but are not sure how much they apply in their case. They are looking for a volunteer who can advise on the best way to structure the site and present information. Users may visit the site very infrequently and from public-access computers so it needs to be very easy to find the information they require. Much of the site development is already complete and there's a beta version you'll be able to look at. However, there's still a lot of flexibility in the design and structure of the site. The charity feel that you'd need to spend at least half a day taking an initial look at the site. Further work would depend on how good or bad you feel the site is. They are also planning to get user groups involved in testing the site so you may wish to be involved in that. There is quite a tight timetable for this as the site is due for launch in January 2009. They're happy to work remotely with a volunteer.

Opportunity Name: Revamp Website
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: W11
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based near Temple tube station helps patients suffering from a rare lung disease, that principally affects women during the prime of their lives; their families and friends. The disease leads to deterioration of the lungs, the need for a lung transplant and, failing that, to the death of the patient. They help funds research into the disease and offer patient support. They have a website created for them by one of their trustees. They would like it to be more visually interesting, with photos of patients, medical staff, and fundraisers and more user-friendly. They would also like advice on taking donations online. They would like to meet you first, and they have people in various parts of the UK.

Opportunity Name: Help Small Charity Create Online Newsletter
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: N7
Virtual: No

Description: This charity and social enterprise based near Holloway Road tube station provides counselling and complementary therapies to people experiencing acute stress and mental health difficulties. They get referrals from GPs, Community Mental Health Teams, and Social Services. They have hundreds of people on their database who have signed up for a newsletter but the charity has never sent any. They want your advice on whether to create a text newsletter or an HTML newsletter. They need you to advise how to send these out, and help them choose a suitable email management system to do it. They'll need your help to implement the email management system.

Opportunity Name: Help! Small charity struggling to manage their accounts
Skill Type: Advice
Region: London
Locality: Islington
Postcode: N7
Virtual: No

Description: This small Islington-based charity works with people of all ages using arts projects to promote better mental health. They have had a few financial problems because they are struggling to monitor their finances. They have QuickBooks but are unable to use it to get the figures they need. They have now resorted to using Excel but would like some help in setting it up so that they can quickly and easily get the figures they need. They need to be able to produce monthly management reports in an attractive format and to forecast income and expenditure so they can identify when they need to increase fundraising activities. They would appreciate some advice on setting up formulae, carrying figures forward from previous months and perhaps summarising important information on a separate sheet.

Opportunity Name: Database consultant needed for affects of poverty charity
Skill Type: Consultancy
Region: London
Locality: Hornchurch
Postcode: RM11
Virtual: Yes

Description: This long-established charity tackles the effects of low income and disadvantage in causing loneliness and isolation by providing radio and television sets for the bedridden, housebound, disabled and elderly unable to afford a set for themselves. Central to their operation is an Access database which helps them to provide equipment, and includes details on their clients, donors, and sponsors. An iT4Communities volunteer has helped them document the database that was designed for them and has advised them to procure a new database due to substantial problems in the original build. The previous volunteer is very supportive and available for handover but is unable to give the time to help with procuring and project managing the purchase and installation of the proposed new database. If you have experience of database procurement and would value the opportunity to help with this inspiring charity please request contact details.

Opportunity Name: Nice design required for small website
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: N1
Virtual: No

Description: This small charity in Islington runs a variety of social and training events. Although open to all they are of most benefit to people with mental health problems or those experiencing social exclusion. Activities include a photography club, gardening, walking trips and regular social evenings. They will soon be starting a new Wellbeing project. The charity are looking to revamp their website. They would like a nicer design and more freedom to make changes to the site. The current site is easy to maintain but they are restricted in the changes they can make and, in particular, they would like to be able to add images. They're looking for a volunteer with a flair for design who can work with them to create a template driven site that is easy to update. The site doesn't need interactive features - the content would be mainly text and images with some PDFs and Word documents. They are happy to move host if they need to but would like to continue using some sort of CMS. They would also like to discuss SEO if possible. Although more of a long-term aim they want to ensure that potential clients can easily find out about their services when searching the web.

Opportunity Name: Redesign of frames-based website and simple SEO skills
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: london
Postcode: SW1W
Virtual: No

Description: This small charity provides scholarships to nurses and midwives to help them advance their studies. This is an interesting opportunity to redesign a website and flex your SEO skills too. Their existing frames-based website is only partly accessible. They need you to redesign it so that it doesn't use frames, incorporates CSS, and is more accessible. They want to be able to maintain their website so also need you to implement a CMS, and train them on using the CMS to update content, and add new Scholars' reports. They'll need advice on choosing useful titles for their webpages too. They also need help in getting and interpreting simple website statistics, or if these aren't provided by their host, in using external analytics, for example, Google.

Opportunity Name: Accessible website - vital for a disability charity
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: Islington
Postcode: N1
Virtual: No

Description: This charity provides training, consultancy and resources to promote the inclusion of disabled people in mainstream education. They have a network of trainers working with schools and education authorities across the UK. Although a very small organisation they are active in the international arena and their director is an expert in this area. They have a website but are embarrassed by it. It is unattractive and crucially it is not accessible. They would like a volunteer to work with them to design and build a new attractive, accessible site. They need to be able to maintain the site themselves so a CMS would be appropriate and they'll need training in how to use it. They would like to use the site to promote the wide range of publications they have for sale. This could simply be a page with appropriate information but they would be interested in considering an e-commerce element to the site. However, they would need you to explain the pros and cons of on-line payments before going ahead with this. The most important part of this is making the site accessible so if you're an expert in this area please get in touch.

Opportunity Name: Small but important library needs an e-strategy
Skill Type: Strategy
Region: London
Locality: Westminster
Postcode: W1W
Virtual: No

Description: This charity is a library holding the world's largest archive relating to the Holocaust and Nazi era. They have a huge, internationally important collection that is available to students, lecturers, media, etc. and provides a resource to oppose anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice. The library has identified a need for an e-strategy. They want to consider issues such as digitisation of the collection, digital collecting, using the web to make the collection available to a wider audience and development of navigational tools to assist users. The library has no staff with an IT background so they are looking for a volunteer to help them with this. Ideally the volunteer should have experience of library, museum or educational organisations but anyone with knowledge of e-strategy would be very welcome. The charity aims to put together a plan for the future that will allow them to implement the strategy as a number of small projects and to make appropriate bids for funding. Charity staff will be happy to carry out much of the legwork and research if a volunteer can point them in the right direction. They imagine that they'd only need to meet with the volunteer every couple of months.

Opportunity Name: Teach charity how to update website themselves
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: E13
Virtual: No

Description: This charity provides services for older people in the London Borough of Newnham. They operate sheltered housing schemes and provide 24-hour domiciliary care. They also provide day care services, lunch clubs, befriending schemes and organise social activities. They work mainly, but not exclusively, with the BME community. They commissioned a consultant to build them a website. The design and framework of the site is complete but most of the content is missing. The charity can't afford to pay for further updates to the site. They would like to be able to update the site themselves and are looking for a volunteer who can show them what to do. You'll need to figure out how the site has been developed - it appears to be some sort of site-builder tool - and how to do updates. You may need to contact the original consultant for access details. The charity contact is fairly IT-literate and hopes to learn what to do in a couple of half-day sessions. She'd like to learn how to update text on existing pages, add new pages and upload images to replace the generic pictures currently used.

Opportunity Name: Solve Organisational Problems at the Theatre
Skill Type: Needs Analysis
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: W6
Virtual: No

Description: This theatre charity based near Hammersmith tube station is a vital part of London's cultural community. It is dedicated to creating highly innovative and groundbreaking work that is accessible to artists and audiences of all ages from all backgrounds.In tandem with its work on stage, it runs an extensive and well-established creative learning programme for young people aged 11-19, in disadvantaged communities in London and provides opportunities to access innovative, high quality arts provision and to gain qualifications. They have a website which takes bookings, and bookings are also taken by phone and in person using an offline database, Patrons' Edge. They're conscious that their website needs to be more interactive and faster, and serve young people more, and they also have problems in other departments, not necessarily connected with the website. They're looking for someone to review their organisational processes and systems, and specify solutions in enough detail that they can ask for volunteers to deliver the solutions.

Opportunity Name: Small Brochure-Type Website including CMS for Small Charity
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: Rickmansworth
Postcode: WD3
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based near Rickmansworth tube station enables people with disabilities and volunteer helpers of all ages and abilities including non-swimmers to enjoy the benefits of swimming in safety and privacy. They also compete in swimming galas. They want you to create a brochure-type website for them to promote the activities of the charity. They have a domain name and hosting already. They have a clear idea of the design they want and the content; comprising static information pages, forthcoming events, a links page, a photo gallery and a contact form. They need to be able to keep the website, particularly the events and gallery up to date, so they want you to implement a CMS and show them how to use it. They have prepared a design brief, too. They don't have premises so all the work except showing them how to use the CMS will need to be done remotely.

Opportunity Name: New Website built in Dreamweaver but including CMS
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: EC1V
Virtual: No

Description: An interesting, unusual, and challenging opportunity. This educational charity based near Barbican tube station exists to encourage and enable individuals to play an effective role in democratic society, and they also train and support young people throughout London to develop campaigns on a range of issues including gun crime, housing estate improvement and community cohesion. They have an award winning project that supports groups of young people (working with adults) who want to achieve political or social change in their local community, and they would like a new project-specific website to help them promote the project. The charity's website manager currently uses Dreamweaver to maintain the charity's existing website, so if the new website can be maintained in Dreamweaver this would help. They want the website to provide groups to build their own page to promote their campaigns to the outside world using their own password and a CMS. The website will need a contact form, provide download resources and promote the project to media, donors and the prospective groups. They want a forum for trainers and adults. They've got a good idea of the design and content.

Opportunity Name: New Brochure-Type Website with CMS and Online Donations
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: WALTHAMSTOW
Postcode: E17
Virtual: Yes

Description: The aim of this newish charity based near Stratford tube station is to relieve poverty and distress, protect and preserve good health and advance education, primarily but not exclusively in India, by the provision of financial assistance, equipment and facilities to improve and develop schools, clean water supplies, self help projects, medical aid with the object of improving the conditions of life for the needy. They need a brochure-type website with CMS and online donations, and a contact form. They're thinking about the design and content, but most of the content will need to be added later as they get projects going, so you'll need to show them how to use the CMS to do this. They need your guidance about choosing a domain name and hosting, and registering for both. They'll also need your help with structuring content and registering with a suitable payment provider, such as PayPal, and setting up and taking online donations. As they have no premises, most of the work will need to be done remotely.

Opportunity Name: Implement CMS for Existing Website
Skill Type: Website
Region: South West
Locality: Bristol
Postcode: BS16
Virtual: No

Description: This small young charity based in Bristol provides sustainable health, education, and water development projects to and for people in Ethiopia. They have a website which they need to be able to update easily. They managed to install Joomla, and they've played around with it, but not managed to create a template, and are really struggling. They would like your help to implement a CMS (it doesn't need to be Joomla) and get them used to using it to update the website. They are generally IT competent, so they are not expecting face-to-face training.

Opportunity Name: Further development of online systems - anywhere in London or SW
Skill Type: Programming
Region: South West
Locality: Bridport
Postcode: DT6
Virtual: No

Description: This organisation is a Dorset-based social enterprise which aims to provide locally sourced good quality food. Currently they work with a dozen local primary schools cooking meals in their kitchen and delivering hot food daily to 500 children. They also work with food clubs to enable individuals to benefit from the discounts available due to their bulk buying. During the seven years they've been running they've developed two PHP and MySQL based systems. One system allows schools to place orders for meals, these are mapped to recipes and the quantities required are calculated; the second system handles the purchasing of food. They are now planning for the future and would like to make some improvements to the two systems. For ease of development they'd like to move to a web application framework and are considering Ruby on Rails or Symfony. They would like to develop APIs to interface the two systems and also to allow local suppliers to upload availability information. They would also like to develop the web interface to allow parents to order and pay for their child's meals online. They are looking for a volunteer who can help develop these systems - some specification work has already been done. There could be a significant amount of work involved but feel free to enquire if you'd like to help with part of it. Ultimately they feel that this software could be of interest to other similar organisations and they are considering offering it to the open source community at some stage. The organisation's staff regularly travel to London and within the south west and are happy to meet and work with a volunteer anywhere in that region.

Opportunity Name: New e-commerce website with forums
Skill Type: Website
Region: South West
Locality: FALMOUTH
Postcode: TR11
Virtual: Yes

Description: This not for profit support group based in Falmouth provides advice, information and support to all those living with chronic (long-term) pain. They aim to empower the person with pain to take back control of their lives and enable them to reduce their pain and to cope in a more constructive way. Their frames-based website provides contact with others via a confidential contact area, a discussion forum (both using ASP) and regular newsletters, and offers books, CDs, with payment through PayPal using very simple HTML, but they feel it is not visible in search engine results. It uses Access databases, ASP, CDONTS for email and possibly PERL as well. They would like the website to be not frames-based so that it is more accessible, whilst leaving the forums, and e-commerce pages intact. They want the replacement website to have a 'clean' look and to be simpler for visitors to navigate and for them to maintain, perhaps using a CMS.

Opportunity Name: Advice about Setting Up Internet Cafe
Skill Type: Consultancy
Region: South West
Locality:
Postcode: BA14
Virtual: No

Description: This Trowbridge charity runs a local village hall, and wishes to set up an internet cafe so that local residents can get access to the internet and general computer facilities. A phone line has been installed, and they have broadband internet access. They have 1 reconditioned laptop, and a printer and need advice about whether it is going to be cost effective and how to run this sort of service, and they're currently looking for more laptops. They need advice on what other hardware they need, and what software is needed. So that they can judge whether it is cost effective, you'll need to advise them on the set up cost, and estimate the running costs too, and perhaps help them calculate if they need to make a usage charge, and how much it should be. You'll need also to help them understand what day-to-day tasks are needed to run an internet cafe, and what problems might occur.

Opportunity Name: Brochure-Type Website including CMS for Small Charity
Skill Type: Website
Region: East of England
Locality: Kings Lynn
Postcode: PE30
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based in Kings Lynn provides housing advice and support and life-skills training to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk. They have 5 stand-alone PCs running XP and MS Office 2003 and wireless internet broadband access. They're looking for someone to build them a brochure-type website to show people what they do and the services they provide, links, a contact form, and provide downloadable referral forms. They have a current problem with 2 unaccessable ISP mail accounts previously held by 2 dismissed staff, so they need you to implement domain email for current staff. They need to be able to update the website and add new pages after you've gone, so they'll need an appropriate CMS. They have a rough idea of what they want, however they'll need guidance on the layout and structure. You'll need to: implement domain email, define the website content and structure in detail, guide them in signing up for suitable hosting, build the website, implement a CMS, and train them in its use. They already have a domain name. Much of the work can be done remotely.

Opportunity Name: New Simple Brochure-Type Website with CMS
Skill Type: Website
Region: East of England
Locality: Norwich
Postcode: NR1
Virtual: No

Description: This new social enterprise based in Norwich plans to offer 3 different services to the local community. One service is to provide active play space for pre-school children on council estates, another is to provide a meal at cost to the children and their carers, and a bit later to provide supported social space for the elderly in care homes. They would like a simple brochure-type website with a contact form and a CMS, to provide information to local agencies, healthcare workers, teachers and social workers, and also to local businesses. They've got good ideas about the design, and know their content, and they've got a domain name and hosting arranged. They need you to put the website together, and show them how to use the CMS to keep the website up to date. They would also like you to set up domain email.

Opportunity Name: IT Audit for Small Charity [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Audit/strategy
Region: East of England
Locality: Kings Lynn
Postcode: PE30
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based in Kings Lynn provides housing advice and support and life-skills training to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk.They have 5 stand-alone PCs running XP and MS Office 2003 and wireless internet broadband access. They use a local company for hardware support. They would like you to audit their IT setup and make recommendations to improve their systems, and advise them how to use IT to become effective and efficient in the future.In particular, you need to review security, they have anti-virus on only 2 PCs, they aren't sure whether they have a firewall, is the wireless connection adequately secured ? Housekeeping and backup needs to be reviewed too.

Opportunity Name: Social Enterprise is looking for like-minded web-developers
Skill Type: Website
Region: East of England
Locality: Cambridge
Postcode: CB24
Virtual: Yes

Description: WANTED: Someone Who Wants To Change The World Is your purpose in life to improve other people's lives and leave the world a better place? If so, a new international Internet-based charity venture wants to hear from you. The venture is based around the theme of Gratitude and Social Wellbeing. Our aim is to help encourage people to change the way they look at their lives by focusing on what they are grateful for, rather than all the bad stuff in their lives. We are looking to recruit a team of enthusiastic volunteers who can use their web experience to help change the world for the better. OUR BACKGROUND: We are a small team of three people who have put in eighteen months work to create a concept and a full technical specification for the website. Between us, we have 20 years of web background including running a number of popular web sites in the UK. We have lots of ideas and web marketing skills, but limited technical nouse (i.e. enough to hold our own in a conversation with a web wizard, but we'd be dangerous with a username and password in phpmyadmin!) SITE BACKGROUND: IS THIS YOU? We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers with a passion for contributing to a project that will make a big difference. The site is now ready to be built and we are looking for a small team consisting of: 1) WEB DEVELOPERS - we are looking for up to three developers who can work together (either virtually or together). We would like a Web 2.0 site developed using PHP, AJAX and MySQL. 2) A PROJECT MANAGER who has experience of managing and delivering web projects. You will love Gantt Charts and eat deadlines for breakfast! We are based in Cambridge, but it can also work as a virtual project.

Opportunity Name: Audit Small Charity's Setup
Skill Type: Audit
Region: East Midlands
Locality: Nottingham
Postcode: NG2
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based in south Nottingham reunites families separated for decades by UK child migration schemes, and provide counselling and advice for this section of the community in the UK and in Australia, where they have 2 offices. They have 5 PCs running XP in their office, they aren't networked, but they do have wireless internet access. They're unsure whether they have a firewall. They would like you to audit their office, check that their wireless access is adequately protected, check their anti-virus and anti-spyware is up to date, and make recommendations on firewall and anything else that could be improved. They also need advice about backup and housekeeping tasks. They would like your advice about technologies that would help them work more efficiently and effectively.

Opportunity Name: New brochure-type website with CMS and online donations
Skill Type: Website
Region: East Midlands
Locality: South Kesteven
Postcode: NG31
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based in Grantham provides people with visual impairment with a range of services and helps them lead active, independent lives in the community. They would like you to build them a brochure type website. As their audience is visually impaired, accessibility is vital. They have a lot of volunteering opportunities to go on the website, changing from week to week, and they'll need a contact form too. They'll need to be able to keep the opportunities up to date, as well as updating other pages, so they need you to implement a content management system, and show them how to use it. They would also like to take donations online, perhaps using PayPal. You'll need to be there to train them, and perhaps discuss design but most of the work can be done remotely

Opportunity Name: Advice please. Internet-only PC on a budget
Skill Type: Advice
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside
Locality: Halifax
Postcode: HX1
Virtual: No

Description: This organisation works with over 13,500 vulnerable and socially excluded people in England each year helping them with housing and support. From their Halifax office they operate a supported lodgings scheme for young people with placements available with families throughout Calderdale. Within their office they would like to provide a PC which clients can use, with staff help, to access housing-related websites and apply for housing online. They have a room set aside for the PC and the office has broadband access but they've no budget for a PC! They would appreciate advice from a volunteer - what sort of PC do they need, where can they get one cheaply (or free) and how should it be set up? The PC wouldn't be used for anything else so perhaps a low spec. or second hand machine would be good enough.

Opportunity Name: System data analysis for campaigning organisation
Skill Type: Consultancy
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside
Locality: bridlington
Postcode: yo15
Virtual: Yes

Description: This organisation of ex-sub postmasters is concerned about possible problems with the Post Office "Horizon" system which may have adversely affected them. There are approximately 50 postmasters involved in various ways. They have information provided by their former employers in legal proceedings and need expert analysis of this. The files concerned are system reports from the Horizon system and log files in Tivoli XML format. This is an opportunity for a volunteer who is familiar with Horizon or similar systems and has a background in analysis of systems activity including Tivoli log files. The organisation does not need a campaigner in this role - this is a strictly professional engagement providing support to a campaigning group. The files are in paper form so a local volunteer would be preferred although it would be possible to scan and transmit them to a remote volunteer

Opportunity Name: CSS Template for Website Revamp [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Website
Region: Scotland
Locality: Melrose
Postcode: TD6
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based in Edinburgh is the umbrella body for all family history societies that have an interest in Scottish genealogy, irrespective of where they are based. They support individual societies, act as a national voice for genealogical matters in Scotland, provide advice on best practice, as well as researching and producing a few publications. They have a frames-based website at present. They want to revamp the website using a CSS based template, and want someone just to produce the CSS template for them.

Opportunity Name: Help with CSS [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Website
Region: Scotland
Locality: Galashiels
Postcode: TD1
Virtual: Yes

Description: This long-established but small charity based in Galashiels helps people research their ancestry in south-east Scotland. As part of their work, they record gravestone inscriptions in cemeteries in their area and publish them, as well as publishing books on social history. They have a Windows- based website with .ASP pages and very simple design. They would like your help with the CSS so that a right-hand column can be defined for some pages, to show sponsors' names and Google ads. A lot of the content is displayed in tables, and they would like your help to get the table data rendered by the CSS instead of using HTML code.

Opportunity Name: Install CMS and Other Improvements
Skill Type: Website
Region: Scotland
Locality:
Postcode: td1
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based in Galashiels supports people with disabilities to manage their own care, by supporting them as employers, helping with recruitment, and managing carers. They have a frames-based website which they can't update, built for them by a friend. They would like you to install a CMS, and train them how to use it so that they can add and change text and images, and add new pages. They would also like an online application form built. Finally, it would be nice for the site to be more accessible, especially considering their target audience. Most of the work can be done remotely.