# Number one priority

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/04/15/number-one-priority/
- Published: 2000-04-15T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

This time next week the latest major change to the UK’s telephone numbering system
will have been implemented. 
This time next week the latest major change to the 
UK’s telephone numbering system will have been implemented. With only 7% of the 
public in the affected areas aware of what their new numbers will be, according 
to telecoms industry body The Big Number, it is essential that charities get their
relevant systems reprogrammed to handle the change. And that includes checking that
your telephone number is published correctly on your Web site, an obvious alternative
route for many supporters keen to contact you but who encounter a failed connection
tone on their ‘phone.

Find out more from [The Big Number](http://www.numberchange.org), or use [BT’s Web site](http://www.numberchange.bt.com),
with its online number-changing tool. You can even download the BT site to your 
PC or charity’s intranet.

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