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Home page Contact us Our services     Work the web Better business Cost cutters Satisfy customers Free-flow feedback Charities Security Matters At your service Web site services Hosting facilities Add functionality Available tools Tailoring the web Information Articles Free updates Client Login Charities can achieve great advantage with the internet. Typically, many volunteers are involved on a part-time or very occasional basis. Charities tend to depend heavily on the goodwill of third parties. Any money spent on administration means less money is spent on achieving the charitable objective. Some of the ways the internet can benefit charities and other non-profit making organisations are set out below. Contents Cost cutting Ease working "by committee" Fund-raising support Deliver charitable services Software Design UK is the creator of great web sites and bespoke software. Cost cutting When set up effectively, the internet can often be used to help reduce the cost of administration. This can be achieved by facilitating beneficiaries and donors to submit information for automatic processing, and to provide information that otherwise would require a costly human's time. At Software Design UK, we can help identify procedures and information suitable to achieve cost savings by use of the internet. We can also train, supervise or implement any relevant systems to achieve the savings (Back to contents) Ease working "by committees" Many functions of a charity are achieved through occasional involvement of many people. This often builds in significant inefficiencies, wasting time and often cost. The internet can be used to streamline collaborative working through a series of techniques which rely on the centralisation of documentation in one place on the internet, which is accessible at any time, by any authorised person, anywhere. We can help identify areas of support for collaborative working and implement appropriate systems. (Back to contents) Fund-raising support Fund raising can be supported in two key ways. Firstly, the internet provides unparallelled opportunity to convey the objectives and achievements of a charity, to encourage continued donation. Secondly, the internet can be set up to facilitate donations and Gift Aid administration. This can save administrative costs. On-line donation facilities allow donors to give at any time that suits them, with minimum fuss, and with maximum relevant information. We can provide you with technical and tax support to implement any or all aspects of internet giving. (Back to contents) Deliver charitable services The internet is a perfect tool to deliver, at negligible cost, information. For charities that provide information as part of their service delivery to beneficiaries, the internet is a must. We can provide training and supervision of staff to display information in the most effective way for the charity. We can also set up systems that automate uploading of information that requires regular update. (Back to contents)