Marketing and Communications
CIVICUS - Communication and Media Toolkits
CIVICUS website has links to a good selection of marketing and communications toolkits, including Producing Your Own Media, Promoting Your Organisation, and Internal Communications.
KnowHow NonProfit - Marketing
KnowHow NonProfit website has tips and advice on a range of useful topics, including marketing.
Media Trust
The Media Trust website has lots of useful communications and marketing resources, including for example PR, branding and marketing campaigns and messaging.
Community Newswire is a free service that helps charities, communities and citizen journalists get their stories into the national and regional media. You can submit a press release and the best will be selected and written up by dedicated Press Association journalists and distributed to thousands of newsrooms across the UK.
The UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS)
UKCDS has launched an image gallery with collections of photos relating to international development and development sciences. All images can be downloaded free of charge for use in presentations, reports and study materials of non-commercial nature. UKCDS also provides links to other relevant image galleries.
Information and communications technology
Co-operative Systems
Co-operative Systems is a supplier of IT services to the voluntary sector. Their website has lots of good tips on IT related topics.
They also offer advice and support on IT to organisations, and an offer up to 2 hours of initial assistance free of charge.
Charity Technology Exchange (CTX)
UK-based charities are able to request donated technology products through CTX from Partners such as Microsoft, Symantec and Cisco. The products include operating system software and server software, security software as well as hardware products.
iT4Communities
Charities, voluntary organisations and community groups can get help with IT-related projects from volunteer IT professionals through IT4Communities.
Since 2002 IT4Communities has provided over 2,500 VCOs with help, advice and guidance from their network of over 7,500 volunteers.
IT4Communities claims to give £750,000 of support to UK charities every year, helping them to make good use of new technologies and to free up staff time.
Sayer Vincent 'Made Simple' guides
Sayer Vincent consultants and auditors have a range of finance and IT related 'Made Simple' guides on their website, including 'Websites Made Simple'.
Lasa Computanews Guides
The Lasa website's publications section has useful ICT related guides, including on IT security, and Data Protection.
The Tactical Technology Collective Guides and Toolkits
The Tactical Technology Collective website has a range of ICT related guides and tips for NGOs, and to support advocacy work of international organisations in particular.
NGO-in-a-box
This website offers information on peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software (F/OSS), tailored to the needs of NGO's
