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Circuit Riders -
ICT development
and support
for the voluntary sector
A Circuit Rider is a mobile worker who provides ICT
support
and development to a caseload of small voluntary organisations and who
works in collaboration with other Riders. This page provides some basic
information on circuit riding in the UK and what's being
done to develop it.
Please
note: Lasa is developing ukriders.lasa.org.uk as the
website for its ongoing
Circuit Rider development work including training, principles
and signatories, conference
notes,
links to Flickr and YouTube, blogs, reports
and more. These
were previously on ukriders.info which is now closed down. Links to the
site from this page will not work. We hope that the site will be up and
running shortly. Apologioes for any inconvenience.
Latest News
Circuit Rider Conference 2009: Riding the crest of a slump - surviving in tough times
Lasa's fifth annual Rider conference took place on 9th June at IBM's
Bedfont Lakes venue. It was another great day with over 50 Riders and
other voluntary sector ICT workers taking part. You can now download the report of the day's sessions (485Kb PDF file) and you can see photos of the event over on Flickr and view some of the presentations on Slideshare.
Building Bridges to ICT Excellence - free ICT funding
advice for qualifying London voluntary organisations
Lasa is working with The City Bridge
Trust, the Wates
Foundation and the Cripplegate Foundation to provide
support to voluntary and community groups based in London
on all aspects of ICT elements of
funding bids to the Trust and Foundations - see below for more information.
London
Region ICT Infrastructure Project
Lasa has been funded by the Big Lottery under its BASIS programme to
develop training and accreditation for Circuit Riders and other
voluntary sector ICT staff. We'll be developing resources over on www.ukriders.info
for this project.
Building Bridges to ICT
Excellence
Lasa is working
with the City Bridge Trust, Wates Foundation and Cripplegate Foundation over the next three years to provide support to
voluntary and community groups based in London on all
aspects of ICT elements of funding bids to the Trust and Foundations.
Lasa can help:
- increase the efficiency of current ICT
equipment,saving time, money and resources;
- plan and assess major new systems that will
improve the delivery of services;
budget for and assess quotes and purchasing
options;
- establish sound arrangements for ICT support;
- gain a greater understanding of ICT strategy,
management and best practice (including accessibility issues).
Lasa's
Building Bridges
to ICT Excellence Project Consultant Ian Goodman said
"We're delighted to be able to offer this service to London's
voluntary sector. By providing advice on proposed ICT developments and
current issues we can pass on the skills and knowledge organisations
need to manage their ICT and build capacity. We can help by talking
through issues and signposting to online resources."
This advice
service is available to organisations who are considering or are in the
process of applying for funding to the City Bridge Trust, Wates
Foundation or Cripplegate Foundation, or, by referral from the funders, already in receipt of a
grant. Referred organisations can take advantage of a more
‘hands-on’ Circuit Rider service including, where
appropriate, an ICT healthcheck, technical consultation and follow up
work.
To access the
service or for more information contact Ian Goodman at Lasa on 020 7426
4473
email igoodman@lasa.org.uk
Even if
organisations don’t qualify for this Project
there’s a vast range of free ICT advice and resources over at
Lasa's Knowledgebase and Suppliers Directory.
The project
builds on Lasa's successful Circuit Rider project, funded by The City
Bridge Trust and the Big Lottery, which ran between 2005 and 2007. The
evaluations from the Project can be downloaded from
http://www.ukriders.info/reports
where you can also find a
link to the City Bridge Trust's overview of building ICT capacity in London's Third
Sector organisations through Circuit Riding.
DISCLAIMER
All
material for the Project has been funded by The City Bridge Trust,
Wates Foundation and Cripplegate Foundation. However, this in no way
means that applicants using
this information to apply for funding from the Trust or Foundation are
guaranteed success or to be funded for the full amount requested.
Organisations are therefore encouraged to utilise the advice when
applying to other funders, for example, statutory bodies.
Round-Up - ICT Hub
Circuit Rider News Digest
This publication,
mainly for Circuit Riders but
of
interest to other ICT professionals working in the VCS, was
produced on a
bi-monthly
basis
between June 2007 and March 2008 as part of Lasa's ICT Hub work and
covered project case studies, Circuit Rider profiles, tools and
resources, blogs and more.
See www.ukriders.info/reports
to
download
Building
a UK movement -
the story so far...
See www.ukriders.info/introduction/story-far
Reports,
evaluations and
resources
These have now been transferred to www.ukriders.info/reports
Lasa's
previous Circuit
Rider
Projects
See www.ukriders.info/reports
for the
evaluation reports on the projects run by Lasa between 2002 - 2004 and
2005 - 2007.
Page
updated 19 June 2009
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