It is a common misconception that accessibility is all about those with limited vision. Making a website or mobile app accessible means making sure it can be used by as many people as possible.
Making your charity's website more accessible also means you will be following best practice with mobile web design, usability and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). This improves your search engine results and makes for a faster user experience that can be experienced by everyone.
We will be exploring these aspects in this session with renowned online accessibility and UX experts.
Speakers:
Gareth Ford Williams - Head of User Experience Design, BBC
This event is free and subtitled thanks to the support of The Catalyst.
In this session be taking a deep dive look at DigiSafe, the new free step-by-step digital safeguarding guide for charities. This session is for you if you are delivering digital services or thinking about delivery digital services.
The DigiSafe guide helps you build safeguarding into each stage of your journey into digital services:
• Build foundations: How to integrate digital safeguarding into your existing safeguarding policy
• Assess risk: How to assess and mitigate risk as you design and deliver an online service
• Apply principles: Universal digital safeguarding principles and common issues that you need to design for
• Design for Safety: Different online service types. The particular risks and issues of each
• Educate everybody: How to teach your users to stay safe and your staff to identify abuse when delivering online services
We are excited to be joined by four of the creators of the guide who will talk us through the key principles, how to use the guide and answer your questions on how to apply it to your own work.
Speakers
Joe Robertson, Working with Joe
Jo Sharpen, AVA (Against Violence and Abuse)
Cordelia Ruck, AVA (Against Violence and Abuse)
Charné Tromp, CAST (Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology)
DigiSafe guide
Joe Robertson,Working with Joe
AVA -Against Violence and Abuse
CAST -Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology
This event is free and subtitled thanks to the support of The Catalyst.
Through a mix of short talks and group work, looking at case studies and playing games, you will:
- Identify strengths and areas to work on;
- Have a framework for managing and supervising people;
- Develop skills, techniques and strategies for managing people;
- Obtain support and encouragement;
- Tackle work related problems and issues.
Using group and individual tasks you will learn about:
- being responsible for people and their work: hopes and fears;
- managing people, teams and group;
- managing change;
- identifying challenges and learning goals;
- supervision and appraisal.
The online workshop isdesigned to be interactive,blending theory with practical day-to-day examples and participant contributionsand group discussions. It will utilise all the best online tools including breakout rooms and polls.
The learning outcomes will have you leave the course with:
- a greater awareness of what resilient people do that sets them apart from others.
- tools to develop your power of perseverance with some practical approaches.
- an enhanced confidence in dealing with rejection and perceived failure.
- a greater awareness of what triggers your self doubt and negative feelings.
- clarity around what you need to start, stop and continue doing in order to build your resilience.
What do fundraisers really do anyway? Pam knows, with nearly 25 years of experience working in fundraising, she will tell you all about the activities and related resources that make up ‘fundraising’. She will reveal the mysteries behind where the money is: who has it, how much do they have and how much does it cost to raise it.
Understanding organisational funding needs and how to target the right source for these is vital to any funding application you might make, as is knowing what funders need – you will examine funders expectations and why they may be suitable (or not) to your organisation!
Every sector has it’s own jargon and buzzwords, and funders are no different so you will begin to speak the funders language by looking at current jargon and how to communicate with a range of funding sources.
After a tasty lunch and time to chat with fellow participants, you will begin to put all you have learnt into practise…there are as many different formats and styles for writing proposals and requests for support as there are applicants and so you must be able to identify the most appropriate for each application you make.
As every good Scout will tell you their motto is “be prepared”, indeed in funding it is essential that you be prepared. Pam will guide you through strategy, planning and time lines, and how to create realistic fundraising plans for the short and medium term.
Taking care of donors after the cheque is in the bank plays as important a part of funding as the application does, it is more than just a thank you! You will explore the complexities of stewardship and the art of cultivation.
Funding is not a quick progress, it takes time, effort and a lot of leg work especially when it comes to research – Pam will take you through the role of research and how important it is in successful funding applications, it is beyond looking in the directories.
This workshop uses practical exercises to help you:
- write content which is creative, clear and concise;
- learn to write to a deadline;
- find the right style, tone and language for your content;
- structure content to tell a story or relay a message;
- avoid bad habits, clichés and gruesome grammar.
You’ll look at some of the why, where, when, how behind comms and marketing during class discussions and group work. You’ll look at good (free or almost free) tools, which will help you build some imaginative marcomms campaigns. Then you’ll plan and execute a campaign (and present it for fun!), maybe setting up a demo Twitter account, Facebook page, media call, or stakeholder event.
You’ll take a real, live plan back to base after picking up new skills:
- why marketing & communications matters – particularly the need to sell internally
- know your comms options – looking at the “traditional” and “digital” ways we can communicate
- curate a list of ways to tell stories – and how to decide what to do
- learn about video and design
In today’s climate it is essential individuals can manage the demands on their time. The course explores what helps and hinders achieving priorities and presents tips and techniques for how to improve the use of time available.
This course will help you to learn:
- how time management can help with productivity;
- how and when to say “no” without offending;
- how to establish short and long term goals to achieve results;
- how to sustain these improvements.
Twitter, Facebook and blogging don’t have to be a mystery any longer…this course will look at:
- Blogging
- Video & audio
You'll also look at creating a social media strategy - every post, reply, like, and comment should serve a purpose!
Having asocial media strategy will mean you’ll have everything you plan to do, and hope to achieve, at hand! It’ll guide you and let you know whether you're succeeding or failing at your objectives.
The intended outcome and objective of the course is for attendees to leave with a clearer understanding of the principles of data protection and the GDPR and provide sufficient knowledge to better navigate the path toward compliance via the completion and use of both the personal data audit and the ability to develop and produce their own data protection policy document.