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WINNER
Colin Crook, nominated by Digital Unite
- Colin is a service leader responsible for running Silver Surfer IT taster sessions in sheltered accommodation for elderly people across the UK. He has been working mainly with people with sight impairments using tools such as Dolphin Guide, Jaws, Thunder, Webbie and various speech recognition programs.
FINALISTS
David Hadley, nominated by Anxiety UK
www.anxietyuk.org.uk
- Despite suffering from agoraphobia, which means he is often unable to leave the house, David has used his time and talents to update the organisation’s website and oversee new developments to the online community to help others.
Gary Hall, nominated by www.keyfund.org.uk
- Keyfund is based in Newcastle upon Tyne and supports 1,000 volunteers in their work with over 6,000 young people. Gary conducted a full review of Keyfund’s IT needs and is now working with the organisation transform its infrastructure. He has saved them large sums of money and continues to offer on-going IT support to keep everything ticking over.
James Seavers and David Moore of Symphony Online, nominated by Rett Syndrome Research Trust UK
- James and David have used their professional web design skills to create a great website for a brand new charity with no start up funds and have helped it find its feet as it started to flourish, all as a result of a cold call. See http://www.reverserett.org.uk
James Preece/Runneymede Project,
nominated by www.ravs.info
- Runneymede Association for Voluntary Services needed to bring its IT operations into the 21st century but had very little budget. James used his lunch hours, evenings and weekends to upgrade its IT capability, despite having a full-time job, a young family and a son with learning difficulties.
The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on 7 June.
Thousands of charities rely on volunteers for all sorts of high quality use of computers and the internet, including technical support, web design, producing videos and many other forms of IT. This Award celebrates those individuals who give their IT skills freely to do good in their community.
The award will go to both the charity and the volunteer to recognize the importance of both partners.
Who is eligible
- Either a volunteer or a charity can submit an entry
- Multiple projects will be considered – if the organisation worked with more than one volunteer on more than one project each can be assessed individually or they can be submitted as one.
- open to any IT volunteer project (not just iT4Communities volunteers or projects)
The winning entry will show that:
- The project would have been unlikely to have been completed without the help of volunteer;
- The Partnership between the volunteer and charity had good communications and collaboration;
- Volunteer commitment and professionalism of note;
- The technology chosen was right for the project;
- The project had positive impact on the charity’s aims and work.
Nominations are now closed and the finalists will be announced on this site on Friday 20 May 2011.
