# DCMS releases free digital toolkit for Local Charities Day

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/01/dcms-releases-free-digital-toolkit-local-charities-day/
- Published: 2017-11-01T07:02:51+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**With Local Charities Day just six weeks away, DCMS is encouraging charities to
make the most of the event with a raft of free tools and ideas.**

[Local Charities Day](https://dcmsblog.uk/2017/09/local-charities-day-2017/) takes
place on 15 December, and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has
released a [digital toolkit](https://dcmsblog.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/LCD-Toolkit.pdf)
including a range of logos that charities can adapt to fit their branding, posters
and ideas including planning social media content, writing a guest blog for the 
DCMS website, and advice on using the #LocalCharitiesDay hashtag and signing ​up​
to ​the #LocalCharitiesDay ​[Thunderclap](https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/63894-localcharitiesday-2017).

There is also an [interactive map](https://dcmsblog.uk/local-charities-day-map/)
showing the charities that are taking part and that local charities can add themselves
to.

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Last year saw the first Local Charities Day take place, with a range of activities
across the country as well as free learning opportunities offered by the FSI, and
matched giving from the government for Localgiving‘s [Grow Your Tenner](https://localgiving.org/what-we-do/campaigns/grow-your-tenner)
campaign in the run up to the day.

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