I attended this event yesterday at Creech St Michael Village Hall and found it very useful and worthwhile. A great opportunity to meet new people in the funding advisor world, to promote work as Regional ICT Champion and to remind them of my work and how I can help to improve skills and understanding. I particularly encouraged them to improve understanding of social media and its use in fundraising and funding work – suggesting that funding advisors can’t do their work without knowing about the use of social media. I am hoping that this will stimulate further discussion and interest – and some workshops!

Also at the event was Muhammad Ali from CEMVO who did a great keynote speech on his work across private sector, public sectors and his role at CEMVO. Very inspiring and entertaining.

Another useful update was provided by Ann Stafford from IT4Communities – reminding organisations of the value of professional volunteers which IT4C can match to organisations and projects.