# Charities and IT volunteers meet up at new volunteering forum

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/05/19/charities-and-it-volunteers-meet-new-volunteering-forum/
- Published: 2003-05-19T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Seventeen IT volunteering projects are currently being negotiated as a result of
the first “ITmatchmaker” event.
IT 4 Communities and Business Community Connections
have hosted their first ITmatchmaker event for London-based charities in need of
IT expertise and local IT professionals willing to provide their skills for a good
cause.

Sixteen voluntary sector organisations and 29 IT volunteers attended the event at
the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists’ Hall.

All the charities who signed up were provided with free training, both to define
IT projects that were suitable to volunteers and to think through the issues of 
working with pro bono professionals.

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IT 4 Communities’ Director, Simon Davey, was very pleased with the outcome of the
evening. “Tonight’s event was a pilot to test the potential of such events to bring
together charities and IT volunteers. The early feedback has been very positive 
from both the community groups and the IT professionals, and we will definitely 
be holding more “ITmatchmaker” events alongside our regular online service.”

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