collaborate|2007 brought together ruralnet|uk’s partners past, present and future at a unique event. A day packed with workshops and networking opportunities, including the annual net:gain awards

Below are the presentations and photos from the event.

The I-See-T collaboration project continued with its first Hands-on workshop exploring the use of a variety of web based tools to help with planning and reporting ‘effective & efficient events’.

During the workshop attendees learnt more about the different online tools available and tried out some of these tools. The afternoon was devoted to starting weblogs (or ‘blogs’) that can be used, amongst many other things, to quickly and easily publicise and report on events.

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2006

Provision of online forums enabled funding advice workers to share information and to have access to specialist advice on a wide range of Voluntary and Community Sector topics. The project was funded by the Finance Hub for the Voluntary Sector.

2006 - ongoing

The production of two publications for the national ICT Hub and NCVO’s Collaborative Working Unit on ICT and collaborative working in the voluntary and community sector. Their purpose is to increase awareness of the opportunities offered through collaboration and ICT, to inspire with case studies illustrating what other organisations are doing, and increase confidence through sharing these examples and the learning which came from them in the voluntary and community sector.

The publications will link to the online support materials being produced as part of ruralnet|uk’s I-See-T - see www.i-see-t.org.uk

These publications bring together the aims of the ICT Hub and NCVO’s Collaborative Working Unit (CWU) to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Voluntary and Community Sector through good use of ICT and collaborative working respectively.

2005 - onging
ruralnet|uk is supported through the Collaborative Fund of the Charities Aid Foundation to collaborate strategically with other charities to improve the sector’s use of ICT for collaboration.

2005 - ongoing
The ICT Collaboration Project was launched at the ruralnet|2005 conference on 12 October 2005 and will observe and analyse how organisations collaborate, using both ruralnet|uk’s existing online services, and new developments. ruralnet|uk already supports over 20 networks - more than 2500 organisations, both rural and urban - using ICT, and has been developing online services since the 1990s. Both urban and rural organisations can participate in this project.

At a meeting today at the headquarters of the Mercian Trust in Lichfield the start of the Food Links Initiative was confirmed. The project will be implemented in association with ‘Development in Practice Ltd’ with the overall objective of linking local food producers and processors with local disadvantaged consumers such that producers enjoy a fair return for their produce and poorer urban communities gain access to wholesome locally produced food at affordable prices.

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1991
Instrumental in establishment of Sedbergh Partnership in Sedbergh, Cumbria and chairing this community trust.