What it is: A buying group for photocopiers / printers that has been set up by a large business for its own use, but that it is happy for advice charities to make use of. Group deal contracts include all service, consumables, parts and maintenance as well as emergency repair within 4 hours. The average
What it is: Technology Trust or “tt-exchange” (formerly known as CTX) is a UK based charity that negotiates donations and deals of software from leading suppliers such as Microsoft, Abode, huddle, Symantec and more. All your organisation has to do is register with them, receive notification of your eligibility and then order through the site.
What it is: The products are cloud based subscription plans that include – Exchange Online hosted email for business (i.e. a cloud email server) that is compatible with desktop versions of Outlook. – Access to Office applications online What donation or discount is available? The Business Essentials and Non-Profit E1 packages are both offered completely
What it is: A cloud based case management system for legal practices – you can see more about it on their website here. What donation or discount is available? The whole case management package is included. For those charities who meet the criteria below it will be free, for those who aren’t eligible but are a
What it is: A cloud based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system. Salesforce is an out of the box product that you then customise to keep track of contacts, supporters, funders, fundraising, finances – anything really! It is an easy to use front face for essentially a lot of spreadsheets (and any data that is in
Media Professionals – help with PR, marketing, Film, Social Media, Branding or Design The Media Trust offer two different ways to access their hundreds of skilled media volunteers: an online Media Matching service to place requests for help running networking opportunities called Speedmatching giving you the chance to meet face to face and gain on
What it is: A buying group for office supplies to help advice organisations minimise their costs. There is a core list of 127 items that are the most commonly bought items between the 50+ organisations that are part of the group. These offer the most competitive prices and have been negotiated on specifically (and are reviewed with the potential of
The MOJ have announced that tenders for civil contracts to deliver mental health advice and representation from August 2014 will open in February 2014. Representation for clients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) is protected by statute under the Access to Justice Act. I discussed access to legal representation for people detained in
The controversial new quality assurance scheme for advocates has been approved by the Legal Services Board as a result of ‘real risk’ over advocacy skills. The super-regulator cleared a joint application by the Bar Standards Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Institute of Legal Executives Professional Standards to ‘alter their regulatory arrangements’ to allow the
JUSTICE COMMITTEE REPORT: Speaking before the justice select committee, legal aid lawyer and Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff was given in the MP’s words ‘an opportunity to kill the myth of the fat cat lawyer’, reports Jon Robins. ‘The average salary of a legal aid lawyer is £25,000,’ she began; adding that the average salary
