NfP Services are hosting a free seminar at their London offices on the morning of Tuesday 24th August 2010, 10.00 am to 12.30 pm with refreshments and lunch included.During this session we shall be demonstrating CiviCRM’s functionality and explaining how the solution can help your organisation take a low risk route to implementing its use. We shall also be providing live examples of a few of the systems we are supporting.

via CiviCRM Seminar – London | CiviCRM Community Site.

The new nfp technology Exhibition is to be held on Tuesday 7 September, 2010 at the Business Design Centre, Upper Street, Islington, London N1.

nfp technology is a a new, highly-focused event targeted at non-profit sector professionals. The nfp technology exhibition looks to take the application of new technology and new concepts to the next level; striving to make membership and donor-dependent organisations as effective and efficient in terms of technology application as their commercial counterparts. nfp technology will provide a significant forum for key sector players to meet the leading suppliers of technological applications.

via ConferenceHouse – nfp technology – nfp technology 2010.

As you can see this is the new website for Actually Data. Actually Data still does what it has always done which is database management, design and data processing. Please have a look around and let me know what you think, you can drop me a line either via email at enquiries or use the contact form which can be found here We hope you like it.

Yesterday, saw the first London data day at JustGiving’s office in Paddington. The session was fully booked and attended by about 50 charities. The purpose of this session was to inform charities about reports that are available through the JustGiving charity account. It was great to get charities in the same room who have been experiencing pain with processing JustGiving data.

To anyone who attended, it was great to see you and I hope you managed to get something out of the day. Here is the feedback from one of the charities a great afternoon yesterday.  We both thoroughly enjoyed it, and took away some really valuable things…

To those of you who wanted to attend the session please contact the JustGiving team who will look at running another session soon.

More changes are being put on an agenda for september around changes for Gift Aid. One of the key things that I think that this should concentrate on is making gift aid more inclusive. It’s always difficult area of fundraising to understand what you can and can’t claim for, hopefully this reform should make it easier for all.Gift Aid is worth approximately £1billion per year to charities

To find out more about the basics of Gift Aid here

This was published recently in Civil Society about the rise in GiftAid Claims: